It has unfortunately been a few months since a new posting has been offered for this particular “Extremely Intelligent Design” series. We will pick up where we left off back in July. This specific series considers the direct relationship between the laws of nature (more appropriately identified as “creation”) with the laws and principles of the Bible. The flawless symmetry between the spoken word of the Creator and the written word of the Creator is overwhelmingly powerful. The “spoken word of God” is creation, what mankind defensively refers to as “nature.” This replacement of the term ‘nature’ instead of ‘creation’ is a feeble attempt to distance mankind’s necessary moral responsibility if the term ‘creation’ were to be used. Creation is a feature of the spoken word of the Creator in the sense that the Bible records the creation process as a series of verbal commands. God said let there be light and it was so. God said Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind and the earth was populated with animals over the course of an evening and a morning… as the record states. Our world is a product of the spoken word of the Creator. He verbally commanded ‘nature’ into existence. The only living God is not simply a mere manipulator who prodded a universe greater than Himself to develop nature as we know it now. The features of creation perfectly parallel the features of the Bible. We have seen from previous blog postings how the very atomic identification of elements perfectly parallel their scriptural numbers. We have seen how the four-square construction of the universe mirrors the design of the Kingdom of God established at Mt Sinai under Moses. We looked at how foolish mankind tripped over their own egos, flailed about for medical solutions while ignoring the medical principles in the very Bible they professed to believe. Despite the fact that the Bible repeatedly declares our life to be in the blood, the absurd practice of phlebotomy (blood-letting) was practiced by ‘Christian’ doctors to the detriment of their patients… such as General George Washington. Let’s pursue this relationship between the spoken word of God (nature/creation) and the written word of God (Bible).
Shouldn’t we wonder why, for thousands of years, the medical elite of our world couldn’t understand that they should wash their hands between operating and tending to sick patients? When this was finally recognized in the late 19th century surgery success rates soared. The evidence is perfectly clear, right there in the Bible… for anyone that might actually care to look. According to the Bible the reason we suffer with death and disease is because Adam and Eve introduced sin into a creation that had been previously described by the Creator as “very good” (Genesis 1:31). We should understand that what an omniscient, omnipotent God defines as “very good” is going to be very different from we personally will accept as “very good.” We are incredibly limited both mentally and physically. Sin, death, violence, disease, frustration, suffering, pain and hard labor could never have been a part of what the God of the Bible declared to be “very good.” These were all introduced following the failure of Adam and Eve in their extreme disrespect for the testimony of the Creator. They chose the testimony of the serpent, that they wouldn’t really die and that by disobeying God they would actually become like Him. The curses for their failure to believe their Creator’s testimony are recorded in Genesis chapter three. Disease is a result of this physical uncleanness which was due to the moral corruption of sin introduced into a previously very good creation. Physical uncleanness (disease) is a direct result of the original moral uncleanness. Disease became a law of nature… not a direct consequence of any other particular sin. We don’t get a cold because we have been naughty. Disease became part of the sin-cursed structure of creation… what we call “nature.” One feature of the hope of the faithful is that disease will not be part of the reconciled nature of those who experience the physical changes of salvation, when our bodies are redeemed as the apostle Paul states (Romans 8:23). Physical uncleanness (disease) is the result of moral uncleanness (sin). It is a principle and not an exact retribution for a single act of disobedience to divine commands. Creation must experience a physical and spiritual harmony of perfection, or we would have to accept the fact that our Creator is a failure… which is impossible.
Under the divine laws of the Kingdom of God established through Moses there were laws of physical uncleanness and required procedures for becoming ritually clean, which means divinely acceptable (from a physical perspective). This state of physical uncleanness (divine unacceptability) was transmitted by touch. If one directly touched someone who was ritually ‘unclean’ then they too became automatically ‘unclean’ and had to participate in a divinely appointed cleansing procedure (Numbers 19:11; Leviticus 15:5-13). If they refused to participate in a cleansing ritual then they were to be ostracized from the community, never to return… by divine command (Numbers 19:13,20). In fact this divine uncleanness state by touch was contagious… exactly like the natural feature of disease transference. If an unclean person (i.e. suffering from a bodily issue or leprosy) touched an item (i.e. like a metal pot, a saddle or a bed) then that item became automatically unclean as well as serving as a new uncleanness ‘host.’ Any clean person touching that unclean article also became automatically unclean, requiring the participation in a cleansing procedure. The Divine unacceptability of a physical state of uncleanness, exactly like disease, is contagiously transferred by touch.
Under this same set of divine laws this was not the case with the physical condition of divine acceptability, defined as ‘cleanness’ under divine law. By divine law the only way one could become ‘holy’ by touch would be to come in direct physical contact with either the bronze altar of burnt offering or the flesh of the sin offering (Exodus 29:37; Leviticus 6:27). This altar was where all the animal living sacrifices demanded by God were offered. This bronze altar and the flesh of the sin offering both serve as metaphorical projections of the ultimate sin offering and the platform for all life offerings to the Creator: Jesus Christ (Hebrews 13:10). Holiness was not contagious and could not be transferred by touch, just as healing cannot be accomplished by touch (unlike contracting disease). This transference issue was only true of physical uncleanness… exactly paralleling the natural feature of disease, which is the direct result of the introduction of sin into a previously “very good” natural order of creation.
The laws of the Kingdom of the Creator of heaven and earth declared the state of physical uncleanness to be contagious. Holiness (physically clean state) was not contagious. Disease is a physical state of uncleanness, part of our nature that was defiled when sin corrupted a previously “very good” creation. Therefore why wouldn’t it be completely obvious that one should clean themselves after ‘touching’ the diseased? Why did it take both Jewish and Christian doctors thousands of years to figure out that they should wash their hands after touching the diseased? This is as obvious as sunlight to anyone that actually has any respect whatsoever for divine communication.
It’s a fact. The spoken word of the Creator perfectly parallels the written word of the Creator. The spoken word of God is creation, which resulted from the verbal commands of the Creator over the six days and nights of creation (Genesis 1). The written word of the Creator is the Bible. Each of these two divine expressions display a significant interdependent complexity where everything is dependent on everything else. These two forms of divine expression are in perfect harmony. This can be demonstrated over and over and over again, for anyone who actually cares to look. Our current physical lives can benefit greatly if we simply respect the divine principles of our Creator. Extending the benefit beyond this sin-cursed life, we also have the opportunity to inherit eternal life, the reward repeatedly promised throughout the Bible for the faithful. The nature of our Creator is without disease or sorrow or frustration or fear or danger or death.