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I will say, though, that generally the Bible does not characterize herbs as medicine, rather as food... which most alt-med types would argue is the fundamental objective with herbal medicine: make it your food.
What is the dif between herbs and chemicals? Both contain specific, independent traits, and here the factor of applicability applies - which is based on knowledge and experimentation - aka 'medicine', as opposed occultism. The reference to a particular plant to cleanse water is thus not alligned with food [sustainence], but a curing action; it is akin to garlic being found as a food additive as well as being a cure for certain ailments in some regions.
We learn from here also, that a cure for a specific illness can be most likely found in abundence in a nearby vicinity; and that where a country or region has one particular food type in abundence - it is most likely that food will serve that region best.
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On the other hand, the Bible is consistent and emphatic that it is God that heals, period. This, in general contradiction to modern medicine which claims that only drugs can heal (insert Beavis & Butthead AMA joke here).
It is not really a contradiction, though its percieved as such. If we discover how a car operates - it is not proof there is no car maker. The contradiction factor comes because we form a tug of war scenario between a Creator and science. But when we consider further, there is far more science in the Creator premise than the random one: if there is a scientific basis in a process - it means there is a cause factor behind everything - and this causative factor cannot cease when we consider the origin point - even when we cannot identify that original causer. The sound premise stands w/o proof here.
Of note, there is no alternative proof to Creationism from science, and this is because science is a post creation [post origin] faculty; its like the faculty of history - it does not apply in a pre-history premise. The same error is made with slogans such as CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION - this is corrected as 'CREATIONISM; EVOLUTION - because evolution does not apply when there is nothing to evolutionise - it is a post creation process, kicking in only after there are existant entities.
The Hebrew bible is the first document which seperated medicine from occultism, and medicine is a primal faculty of science. Cosmology was ushered in with the opening in Genesis - the universe had a beginning [finite]. Next up is entropy [form from formless; order from chas and void]. The order of these faculties also appears correct by a definable protocol; evolution, the gradual emergence of life forms [kinds], appears after the anticipatory and critical seperation of the elements [light from darkness, day from night, water from land, etc] - totally disregarded in ToE! Evolution was introduced in Genesis, Darwin's theory appearing recently, with one fulcrum variance from Genesis - and the latter premise prevails today.
To dislodge Creationism - there has to be a scientific alternative. Till theat happens....it stands and remains the topic of the day in all debates.
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