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The Bible has been accused of being outdated, erroneous and superstitious. Some say it was written by people who have no understanding of the scientific workings of the world.

As we will see, this accusation is baseless and completely false. Not only is the Bible up to date, it also contains amazing scientific facts that were written in it thousands of years before the emergence of modern science.

In the write-up, I'm going to give you a list of six scientific facts in the Bible that confirms the fact that of a truth this book has a divine origin.

1. Blood: The liquid of life

In modern times, we understand the importance of blood to life. We have studied it and know how indispensable it is to life, but this wasn't well known in the past.

Up until the 19th century, the doctors believed that sicknesses and diseases were caused when harmful substances entered the blood. So, they will drain the blood of their patients thinking that remove the impurities from the blood.

The first president of the United States, George Washington, was at a time down with a cold. His doctor was called, and he literally bled him to death. This was the cause of the president's death.

So, what does all this have to do with the Bible? Well, thousands of years before this harmful practice of blood draining was invoked, the Bible alreadystated that blood contains life.

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

Leviticus 17:14 for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore, I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

You can see in the 14th verse above that blood is the life of all flesh. Without blood there is no life as we know it. The question is how Moses who lived fourteen hundred years before Christ knows this great mystery. It took the modern scientific medical community hundreds of years and thousands of life to discover this truth.

2. Sanitation Practices

Some of the worst plaques in modern times were caused by improper sanitation practices. In 1846, the City of London suffered a terrible cholera outbreak that claim a whopping 16,000 lives. Why could the doctors of the day do nothing to combat this deadly epidemic?

The reason was that the City of London had a terrible problem with sewage. The streets were filled with raw sewage so much that people would drop their dumps into the streets from their storeyed windows.

We know in our modern scientific era that raw sewage carries diseases and can cause all types of medical problems. If the people in London in 1846 had turned their Bibles to the Book of Deuteronomy, they would have read this:

Deuteronomy 23:12 Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out.

Deuteronomy 23:13 You shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.

Deuteronomy 23:14 For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore, your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

About 3,300 years before the London epidemic, the Bible already implemented a plan to stop such plaque even before it started.

3. Understanding germs

In 1847, about 18 percent of women who went to hospitals to give birth died. That's about one out of six. But, why was the death rate so high?

This is caused by the ignorance of the medical practitioners of those days. The medical professionals and students would do autopsies on dead bodies before attending to live women. Many times, they wouldn't wash their hands properly; they would wash their equipments in bowls without germ cleaning agents and dried them with dirty towels before performing examinations on their live patients. I know as a 21st-century observer, you would be irritated by this but to them it is pretty normal. The idea of passing germs from dead bodies to live ones was foreign to the medical practitioners of those days.

When they eventually start implementing hand washing procedures, the death rates plummeted from 18 percent to 2 percent. This was a great discovery to the medical world of those days, but it was simply a rediscovery of something that was already written in the Bible.

Numbers 19:11 He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:12 He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

Numbers 19:13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.

Numbers 19:14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:15 And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean.

In fact, I will advise you to read the whole chapter. The Israelites were taught to wash their hands with germ cleaning agents 3,500 years before the modern medical community rediscovered it. It is amazing!

4. Ship engineering

In Genesis, chapter 4, verse 15, God gave Noah the dimension of the ark he was to build. It is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3. For thousands of years, Noah's ark was the largest floating ship on record.

In 1844, a man named Isambard K. Brunel built a huge ship called the Great Britain using a similar ratio to that of Noah's ark, 30 to 5 to 3. It turns out that this is the perfect ratio for building a huge ship that doesn't need to go anywhere quickly but needs to stay float and carries huge tonnes of supplies.

The same ratio was used by shipbuilders in the second world war when they built ships called Liberty ships. Those ships were designed to carry tremendous amount of cargoes.

You see, Brunel and other shipbuilders had generations of knowledge in their craft but Brunel's ship was literally first of its kind.

Why did he get that knowledge from? I guess it's from the master shipbuilder.

5. Quarantine

Today's world of advance medical practice and knowledge understand perfectly how the spread of germs work. So, the idea of quarantine of sick patients is a standard practice. Unfortunately, it certainly wasn't in the ancient world of medicine because they didn't understand germs until about 200 years ago. They didn't see the need to separate the sick patients from the healthy ones.

However, the Bible understood this well and detailed measures to prevent the spread of germs.

Leviticus 13:45 Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cover his mustache, and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

Leviticus 13:46 He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

In the Book of Leviticus, we read that people with diseases like leprosy were instructed to dwell outside the camp. Even when these individuals got close to somebody that is not diseased, they were to cover their mouths and shout, "unclean!"

Why? Why do we tell our children to cover their mouth when coughing? It is to keep that disease spittle from going into the air and infecting others.

When we look at those instructions, we can see that the Israelites had an understanding of contagion and quarantine in a way that surpassed the other nations.

It is interesting that the Encyclopaedia of medical history says this:

The idea of contagion was foreign to the classic medical traditions and found no place in the voluminous Hippocratic writings. The Old Testament, however, is a rich source for contagionist sentiments especially in regard to leprosy and venereal diseases."

The Old Testament exhibits amazing medical knowledge than the humans who are alive then could have possibly come up with on their own.

6. Food regulations

Here in Nigeria, we have agencies, like NAFDAC, that makes regulations to keep people from getting sick from food-borne diseases.

We know in modern times that some food like pork can cause diseases if not properly cooked. But during the Old Testament times, such knowledge is absent. Surprisingly, the Old Testament contains some dietary restrictions that surpassed what the ancient world could possibly grasped.

Leviticus 11:7 The swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

The passage above mentioned that pork was not to be eaten. That's a wise regulation as we can see.

The same text condemns the consumption of bats. You may not want to eat bats but in some parts of the world they are delicacies. Bats have a high tendency to carry viruses that can be caught by humans. Deadly viral diseases like Coronavirus and Ebola all have their origins traced to the consumption of bats.

Also, in Leviticus chapter 11, we read that things like lizards, salamanders and amphibians are not to be eaten. It is medically proven that these animals have high rated of contamination and can cause sickness and diseases in humans if consumed. This can even lead to death.

See the meaning of the word "INRI" on the cross of Jesus every Christian and beliver should know.

We as Christian and believers, it is important for us to know some certain things that is related to us as Christian and Jesus been the forefront of our Christian life, it is important to know some certain things about his death on the cross. Bringing us to the fact that I know most people might have been seeing the cross of Jesus on a daily basis but does not know the meaning of the word "INRI" and inscription on the cross. 

Well without going further, the bible made us to understand in John 19 verses 19-20, "Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews". And it Latin or Roman it reads "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum". Or shortly "INRI". Which in English translates to "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews".

Now most of the denominations, especially Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran, like to use that word INRI to represent the words written on the cross of Jesus.

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