Here are 2 of many places the Bible holds data unknown & unknowable to humans when it was written:
1. There are fountains in the sea. In October '08 a broadcast about the abyss showed "black smokers", vents from which issue enormous quantities of superheated water. These were discovered in 1978 and reported in Natl Geo in '79. Earth's largest geophysical feature is the deep sea 40,000 mile intercontinental rift which is populated with these fountains. 35 centuries ago they were named at Genesis 7:11, 8:2 and centuries later at Proverbs 8:28.
2. Repeatedly we're forbidden to consume blood, a prohibition ratified at the Apostolic conference. (Acts 15:29 & 21:25) Logically that includes transfusions. Now enlightened MDs have named bloodless surgery as the "Gold Strandard". San Antonio Baptist Hospital went bloodless this year, and in Atlanta Catholic St. Joseph's hospital routinely does open-heart surgery on Jehovah's witnesses with no blood and splendid results.
Read:
"Treating Patients Like Jehovah's Witnesses Could Save Lives" D Oakes May 28, 2007
"SURGEONS could save lives by treating people as if they were Jehovah's Witnesses, a visiting US specialist told a conference yesterday. Addressing the the annual scientific meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, cardiothoracic specialist Bruce Spiess said blood transfusions hurt more people than they helped.
"Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to accept blood transfusions, but Professor Spiess said a study in Sweden of 499 Witnesses showed their survival rates were higher than people who received transfusions.
"He described blood transfusions as "almost a religion", because physicians practised them without any solid evidence that they helped. "Blood transfusion has evolved as a medical therapy and it's never been tested like a major drug," he said. "A drug is tested for safety and efficacy, blood transfusion has never been tested for either one.
"There's a number of people around the world who are coming to these same conclusions and it's becoming more obvious that the old risks of hepatitis and AIDS have been defeated by blood bankers, and now what we're dealing with are events that make patients worse." Transfusions increased the probability of post-operative complications, including pneumonia and wound infections.
"I think we need to focus on every possible mechanism we can to keep your own blood," Professor Spiess said. "If you come to surgery, we should ethically treat every patient as if they were a Jehovah's Witness and say, my goal is to not to transfuse you and to use every other technique I possibly can, and then only as a very last result transfuse you."
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The 1982 medical text CURRENT THERAPY lists 7 pages of "Adverse Reactions to Bood Transfusions", 28 ways they kill.
"The law of Jehovah is perfect ... your own servant has been warned by them, in the keeping of them there is a large reward." Psalm 19:7-11 In this case the reward is escape from: STDs, AIDS, hepatitis, mismatched blood, malaria, trypanosomiasis, brucellosis, cytomegalic viral disease, mononucleosis, salmonellosis, typhus, hemosiderosis, post transfusion purpura, graft-vs-host reaction, hemolytic reactions, circulatory overload, rocky mountain spotted fever, etc, etc, etc, ALL MEDICALLY DOCUMENTED.
My wife, Betty Martini, who once owned 5 med clinics, founded Mission Possible, an international educational program to warn against chemical sweeteners, saw a doctor kill his son with a transfusion. (She's done 700 talk shows, addressed a parlimentary committee of the EU and speaks at a California med conference next week. Aspartame & Splenda are neurotoxic!)
Transfusions are a goldmine. Years ago the Houston Post ran a series on a pair of alcoholics who sold blood to buy booze. Note that blood banks are often in the skid-row part of town. Google these headlines:
Blood scandal: Canadian Red Cross Fined June 1, 2005
FDA FINES AMERICAN RED CROSS $4.2 MILLION FOR FAILURE TO MEET BLOOD SAFETY LAWS
Blood Transfusions May Have Killed Millions 5/12/08 Jon Barron
No thank you. The Bible was right!
Scriptures which proscribe blood: Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 3:17, 17:20-14 Deuteronomy 12:16 & 23
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