Outdated or Ahead of Its Time?

THE BIBLE IS NOT A SCIENCE TEXTBOOK, YET IT CONTAINS STATEMENTS THAT WERE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME. Think about A FEW EXAMPLES.

Did the physical universe have a start?

Driving researchers once felt unequivocal that the appropriate response was no. Presently they, by and large, acknowledge that there was a starting to the universe. The Bible said that unmistakably all along.​—Genesis 1:1.

What is the state of the earth?

In old occasions, numerous individuals imagined that the earth was level. In the fifth century B.C.E., Greek researchers proposed that it was a circle. However, sometime before that​—in the eighth century B.C.E.​—the Bible essayist Isaiah alluded to "the hover of the earth," utilizing a word that may likewise be rendered "sphere."​—Isaiah 40:22; commentary.

Are the physical sky subject to rot?

Greek researcher Aristotle, of the fourth century B.C.E., trained that rot happens just on the earth, while the starry sky would never show signs of change or rot. That view won for a long time. However, in the nineteenth century, researchers planned the idea of entropy. It recommends that all issues, regardless of whether sublime or natural, will in general rot. One of the researchers who exceptional this idea, Lord Kelvin, noticed that the Bible says about paradise and earth: "Simply like an article of clothing they will all wear out." (Psalm 102:25, 26) Kelvin accepted as the Bible educates, that God could keep such rot from obliterating His creations.​—Ecclesiastes 1:4.

What holds up planets, for example, our earth?

Aristotle instructed that all the grand bodies were encased in crystalline circles, everyone settled firmly inside the following, with the earth deepest. By the eighteenth century C.E., researchers were tolerating the possibility that stars and planets may hang in a void. However, in the book of Job, of the fifteenth century B.C.E., we read that the Creator is "suspending the earth upon nothing."​—Job 26:7.

Prescription

THE BIBLE, THOUGH NOT A MEDICAL TEXTBOOK, CONTAINS SOME PRINCIPLES THAT REFLECT ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH.

Segregating wiped out individuals.

The Mosaic Law endorsed keeping individuals with sickness separate from others. Not until the diseases of the Middle Ages did medicinal specialists figure out how to apply this standard, which is still esteemed effective.​—Leviticus, sections 13 and 14.

Washing in the wake of contacting a dead body.

Until late in the nineteenth century, doctors regularly chipped away at cadavers and afterward on living patients​—without washing their hands in the middle. That training caused numerous passings. However, the Mosaic Law expressed that any individual who contacted a dead body was ritualistically unclean. It even coordinated that water is utilized for formal purging in such cases. Those religious practices most likely had medical advantages as well.​—Numbers 19:11, 19.

Squander transfer.

Every year, over a large portion of a million youngsters, pass on of looseness of the bowels, generally due to presentation to human waste that isn't discarded appropriately. The Mosaic Law said that human waste ought to be covered, discarded far from human habitation.​—Deuteronomy 23:13.

Timing of circumcision.

God's Law stipulated that a male tyke ought to be circumcised on the eighth day of life. (Leviticus 12:3) In infants, the blood's capacity to cluster is comprehended to achieve ordinary dimensions after the primary week. In Bible occasions, before cutting edge medicinal medications were accessible, sitting tight for over seven days before circumcision was shrewd insurance.

The connection between passionate wellbeing and physical wellbeing.

Therapeutic specialists and researchers state that positive feelings, for example, bliss, expectation, appreciation, and an ability to excuse have some useful consequences for wellbeing. The Bible says: "A blissful heart is a great medication, yet a squashed soul saps one's strength."​—Proverbs 17:22.