Fascinating Medical Evidences Buffalo July 2002

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Fascinating Medical Evidences Buffalo July 2002
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He is trying to save your LIFE!
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Introduction

• Look at what the Bible says concerning disease
  prevention,public health, and medical practice.
• Compare the Bibles instructions with that of the
  ancient Egyptians as well as with more modern
  day public health and medical practice.

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The Bibles Instructions

• First five books of the bible are incredibly
  detailed and specific regarding the law.
• Ever wonder why God was so picky about so
  many seemingly obscure things?
• Example (Leviticus 121-2)Why is a woman
  unclean for seven days after giving birth??

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Gods Promise to Abraham

• Look up at the heavens and count the stars if
  indeed you can count them.
  Then he said to him, So shall your
  offspring be.
• (Genesis 154-6)

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Genesis 172-6

• God made many promises
• He would greatly increase his numbers
• Be the father of many nations
• Be very fruitful
• Make nations of him
• Kings would come from him
• Establish His covenant through him

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Fulfillment of many of Gods promises requires

• FAITH in Gods word
• 2. OBEDIENCE to what He says

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The Test

To put the word into practice. We cant just
listen to the word, but must do what it says.
James 121-24 (Speakers paraphrase)
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The Covenant

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Abrahams Test

• In Genesis 179-14 God told Abraham that he
  was to undergo circumcision and that for the
  generations to come every male eight days old was
  to undergo circumcision.

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OUCH!
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WHY CIRCUMCISION?
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Healthy Offspring?

• Could it be that there was a benefit to
  circumcision that helped Abrahams offspring to
  be healthy and multiply?

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1971

• There are no valid medical indications for
  circumcision in the neonatal period.

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Dr. Thomas Wiswell discovered
Uncircumcised boys were ten times more likely
to suffer urinary tract infections than
circumcised boys.
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• Over the next few years nine different studies
  found circumcision to protect against urinary
  tract infections.

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Graph
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1989

• Newborn circumcision has potential medical
  benefits and advantages.

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Consider
It is estimated that in the U.S.
circumcisions currently prevent more than ten
thousand UTIs per year. If these boys were not
circumcised these infections would kill up to two
hundred boys.
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• In Abrahams time before there were antibiotics
  these infections would have been much more
  serious. UTI Infections could have resulted in
  thousands of boys dying.

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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

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Men, no need to run out and get circumcised!!!!
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Why on the eighth day?

For the generations to come every male among
you who is eight days old must be
circumcised. (Genesis 17 12)
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The Chemistry of Blood Clotting
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Here is How it Works

• Blood Clotting Proteins (Prothrombin) are
  continually produced in the liver.
• The Liver needs Vitamin K to make clotting
  proteins.
• Vitamin K is produced in our intestinal tract.
• When a baby is born the Vitamin K levels are
  similar to that of the mother.

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• Infants are born without the required bacteria in
  their intestines to produce Vitamin K
• It takes about five days for the bacteria to
  build up in order for the baby to start producing
  its own Vitamin K
• As a result Prothrombin drops to 30 percent of
  normal

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Clotting Protein Peaks on Day Eight
Available Prothrombin
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The greatest risk of bleeding occurs between the
second and seventh day of life.
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God told Abraham 4000 years ago that the time to
circumcise was on the eighth day. It took medical
science years to figure that out.
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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

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Flint Knife
Joshua 5 2 Make flint knives and circumcise
the Israelites again.
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Why Flint instead of Metal?

• Making a Flint knife produced a clean bacteria
  free sharp edge.
• Bacteria and germs would only be discovered
  thousands of years later, yet God instructed
  Joshua to use a surgical instrument which would
  be germ free!
• We did not have to wait for Louis Pasteurs Germ
  theory of disease to tell us that!

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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

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Ritualistic Surgeons

• Even today, ritualistic surgeons are infecting
  babies with fatal cases of gangrene, tetanus,
  tuberculosis due to using dirty instruments.

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INITIATED INTO DEATH Infected from botched
circumcisions, beaten and exposed to bitter
cold - its not surprising five boys died.
Some of them lay shivering with fever,
apparently the upshot of septicaemia
resulting from infected circumcision cuts.
The Star, Wednesday, June 26 2002
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The Promise of a healthy disease free life

• Egypt 3500 years ago

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Papyrus Ebers
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Ebers Papyrus

• Written in Egypt in 1552 B.C.
• Contains 877 recipes concerning a great variety
  of diseases and symptoms

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Days of the Papyrus ebers (Egyptians)
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Prescriptions

1. To cure pinkeye apply the urine of a faithful
   wife.
2. To Embedded splinters they applied worms blood
   and asses dung.
3. To prevent hair from turning gray, anoint it with
   the blood of a black calf which has been boiled
   in oil, or with the fat of a rattlesnake.

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The Bible Says

• Gray hair is a crown of splendor it is
  attained by a righteous life.
• (Proverbs 1631)

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Baldness
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Rx for Hair loss

• When it falls out, one remedy is to apply a
  mixture of six fats,namely those of the horse,
  hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat, the snake,
  and the ibex. To strengthen it, anoint it with
  the tooth of a donkey crushed in honey.

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Leviticus 1340-41

• When a man has lost his hair and is bald, he is
  clean. If he has lost his hair from the front of
  his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

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Drugs of Choice included

• Lizards blood
• Swines teeth
• Putrid meat
• Moisture from Pigsears
• Excreta from animals including human beings,
  donkeys, antelope, dogs, cats and flies

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Moses
Exodus 15 26 He said, If you listen carefully
to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is
right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his
commands and keep all his decrees, I will not
bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the
Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.
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Moses' Test

• Acts 722 tells us that Moses was educated in all
  the wisdom of the Egyptians

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The Difference

• Instructions in the Bible were altogether
  different form the Papyrus Ebers. The Bible
  definitely was not copying the medical
  authorities of the dayFar from it!
• We do not find a single harmful or useless remedy
  from the Egyptians in the Bible
• Gods divine instructions were not only devoid of
  harmful practices, but had many detailed positive
  remedies.

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We find remedies such as

• The sting of the hornet is healed by the
  housefly, crushed and applied to the wound
• in a Jewish book of medical knowledge from
  the time of the New Testament writings.
• WE NEVER FIND SUCH A PRESCRIPTION IN THE
  BIBLE!!!

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THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE
BIBLE FOR THE PREVENTION AND IRRADICATION OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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LEPROSY

• Killed millions of people in Europe and around
  the world for hundreds of years.
• Fear of all other diseases taken together can
  hardly be compared to the terror spread by
  Leprosy
• Dr. George Rosen

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Leprosy
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MEDICAL COMMUNITY HAD NO ANSWERS

• They taught that it was brought on by eating
  hot food, pepper, garlic and the meat of diseased
  hogs.
• NO MORE PERI PERI CHICKEN!
• Other physicians said it was caused by malign
  conjunction of the planets.
• The suggestions were utterly worthless!!

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Black Death
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Sixty Million Deaths

• In the 14th Century alone Black Death took the
  lives of one out of every four persons, an
  estimated 60,000,000
• Greatest disaster ever recorded in human history

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What brought the major plagues of the dark ages
under control?

• It was the church that finally took leadership as
  the physicians had nothing to offer.
• The guiding principle was the concept of
  contagion or quarantine as described in the Old
  Testament

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Leviticus 1346
As long as he has the infection he remains
unclean. He must live alone he must live outside
the camp.
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Mission Accomplished!!

• By following the precepts laid down in the
  book of Leviticus the church accomplished the
  feat of methodical eradication of Leprosy and
  then Black Death.

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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

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Disease Prevention

• Intestinal diseases such as cholera, dysentery
  and typhoid fever continued to take a heavy toll
  of lives in Europe into the late 1800s
• In London because of the high cost of a funeral
  (20 weeks wages) it was not uncommon for a family
  to keep the dead body of a relative who died for
  days and even weeks in their one or two room
  house.

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Edwin Chadwick
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Sir Edwin Chadwicks proposal

• Clean up city and build proper sewage system
• No burials within city limits and the bodies to
  removed from peoples houses immediately and
  taken to mortuary for burial

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Deuteronomy 2312-13

• Designate a place outside the camp where you
  can relieve yourself. As part of your equipment
  have something to dig with, and when you relieve
  yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
  For the Lord your God moves about in your camp
  to protect you and to deliver your enemies to
  you.

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Disgusting!!!

• Undertaker quotes even after the coffins had
  been tapped to let out the liquid products of
  decomposition, till maggots were seen crawling
  about the floortill, as the body was borne away,
  escaping matter ran down the shoulders of the
  bearers.

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Deuteronomy 2123

• God directed the people not to even leave
  executed criminals unburied.
• you must not leave his body on the tree
  overnight, be sure to bury him that same day

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Good Idea!

• Parliament did not think so
• 1854 Chadwick Sacked!!!
• For decades Englands poor would continue to pass
  diseases from the dead to the living.

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Parliament should have listened

• to Chadwick and
• Looked to the scriptures!

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HOW

• How could these recommendations,
  which were given to Moses, possibly offer ideas
  of sanitation and disease prevention 3,500 years
  ahead of him?

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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible what it claims to be. The
  Inspired Word of God!!

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Semmelweiss
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Vienna 1847

• In maternity wards one out of every six women
  dies.
• Obstetricians ascribe deaths to constipation,
  fear and poisonous air.

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Allegemeine Krankenhaus
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Death Rate falls from 18 to 1
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Was Semmelweis Applauded?

• To the contrary he was demoted and eventually
  sacked.
• His successor threw out the washbasins and the
  death rate shot back up.
• Died of blood poisoning in a mental hospital

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Numbers 1911

• Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will
  be unclean for seven days.

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Hyssop
Wash as described in Numbers 19

• Hyssop contains antiseptic Thymol
• Repeated washing running water
• Exposure to the sun
• Scrub Cedar Oil Wool fibers
• Repeat

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Hand washing
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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible what it claims to be. The
  Inspired Word of God!!

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Pride

• The Doctors should have listened to Semmelweis
  and looked to the Scriptures.
• Pride and Laziness kept doctors from accepting
  the obvious and in their comfort zones while
  women and their unborn babies kept on dying
  needlessly.

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Elephant
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The Bibles Instructions

• Ever wonder why God was so picky about so
  many seemingly obscure things?
• Why is a woman unclean after childbirth??
  (Leviticus 121-2)
• To protect the woman from infection!
• God Loves us

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Modern Medical Practice and Biblical
Wisdom
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He is trying to save your LIFE!
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Heart Disease

• 42 of all deaths each year in U.S.
  
  
  
  
• 1 million people per year have heart attacks
  
• A heart attack every 20 seconds
• A death every 60 seconds

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Risk Factors (mentioned directly or indirectly
in Bible)

• Stress
• Cholesterol
• High blood pressure
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Smoking
• Sedentary lifestyle

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Heart disease
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Leviticus 722-24
Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep, or
goats. The fat of an animal found dead or torn by
wild animals may be used for any other purpose,
but you must not eat it.
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COINCIDENCE?

• Or is the Bible what it claims to be. The
  Inspired Word of God!!

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Smoking1
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Smoking

• 80 of smokers start before age 16
• In the US 3000 start each day
• 1000 die each day of smoking-related illness
• Lung cancer 120 000 Americans per year
• Heart disease 200 000 Americans per year
• 2nd hand smoke 80 000 Americans per year

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Normal Lung
Emphysema damaged lung
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Other cancersdue to cigarettes

• Cancer of the lips and mouth
• Cancer of the larynx
• Cancer of esophagus and pancreas
• Cancer of the bladder
• Breast cancer

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God says Take care of your body

• 1 Corinthians 6 19-20
• 1 Corinthians 3 16-17
• 1 Corinthians 10 31
• Romans 613-14
• Romans 121-2

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Crash
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Alcohol-related problems

• 80 highway related deaths
• 57 of all rapes
• 47 of all robberies
• 60 of all assaults
• 53 of all murders
• 80 of all suicides

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Proverbs 23 29-34
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who
has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has
bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine it
bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
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Girl dying of AIDS
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AIDS Statistics
2001 World 40 000 000 people infectedAfrica 28
000 000 people infectedSouth Africa 4 700 000
infected 2010 Africa 26 000 000 orphansSouth
Africa 4 000 000 orphans Children 1 child dies
every minute1 new case every 6 seconds
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Epidemic of Sexual Diseases

• Herpes, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Chlamydia
• Genital warts and Cancer of Cervix
• Teenage pregnancy and Abortions
• Infertility and Tubal pregnancy
• Pelvic infection
• Rape, abuse, violence
• AIDS and other infections

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Prevention of AIDSand sexual diseases

• Faithful marriage Genesis 2, Hebrews 13
• Avoid promiscuity Proverbs 5, 6, 7 and
  homosexuality Leviticus 18 22
• Avoid sex with period Leviticus 18 19
• Circumcision Genesis 17, Joshua 5
• Genetic diseases Leviticus 18

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Now choose life, so that you and your children
may live and that you may love the Lord your God,
listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For
the Lord is your life
Deuteronomy 3019
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LISTEN TO THE BIBLE!

• Do what it says
• and Choose Life!

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He is trying to save your LIFE! Are you
Listening?
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Fascinating Medical Evidences Buffalo July
2002