What The Bible Says About Healthy Living

Ten years ago I had a weekend to kill before going to a Natural Food Expo in L.A. and decided to tour the Crystal Cathedral. While not a fan of Robert Schuller, I was the son of an architect and wanted to see the work of Philip Johnson. I was intrigued that a gay architect was chosen to design a cathedral for such a prominent protestant pastor. Perhaps Schuller was more compassionate than most Christians as regards gay people.


Anyway, I wandered down to the bookstore and found a book on the shelf whose title instantly captured me: What The Bible Says About Healthy Living. I was so inspired by the book that I wrote the second review to appear on the Amazon site back in 1998.


The book chronicles a Doctors railing at God after reading Psalm 139:14. The good Doctor was having one health crisis after another and had a real beef with a God that said that we were "beautifully and wonderfully made." The answer he got was essentially "Are you sure you read the instructions?"


The doctor spent several years pouring over the bible finding ways that God was trying to tell us how to live in a way that would assure good health and relative freedom from pain. In addition, the doctor looked for ways that science was beginning to validate the biblical dictums.


While he received some high profile accolades from top evangelicals, he definitely had to walk a tightrope with regard to giving so much credence to OT "laws" regarding diet and lifestyle choices. After all, mainstream Christianity long ago determined that "them laws done been nailed to the cross." Forgive me but I am unable to write those words without lapsing into a Texan dialect.


Despite a good effort to argue his case, I think he missed the main issue which is that Christianity "threw the baby out with the bathwater." Jesus was tweaked with the Pharisees not for trying to follow God's instructions, but for sitting in judgement of those they felt weren't.

After all, Jesus would never have said his Father's words were stupid. Regardless whether you believe that Jesus was the son of God or not, you have to agree that if He believed it he would never have said his Dad was dumb!

In any case, revisiting this book has caused me to decide that one of the missions of this blog will be to encourage other scientists to promote research that will help validate Torah. I say this not because I need proof, but because the world clearly does. In an age when trusting God is only a trite slogan on the back of our money, it is clearly time for people to be convinced, even by as imperfect a vehicle as science, that they need to trust God for everything.

Quotes to Bolster My Sense of Self Righteousness

Since I plan on ranting about all of my odd ideas I figured I would post some quotes that I could come back to when my flame proof underwear are wearing thin and my but is feeling sore.

Kind of like Preparation H for pundits.

So here go a few that have given me solace. I have not vetted them, but even if they are improperly attributed, I feel that the authors ascribed to the utterance would take credit for them anyway because they are so great.

These were lifted off an antivaccination site and so some of them address the seriously deranged field of medicine that I toil in every week.

“All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."… Schopenhauer

“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession" … George Bernard Shaw

“What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think.”
"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it."
“It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." … Adolf Hitler

"When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it" … J. Krishnamurti

"Fear of disease, fear of microorganisms, fear of the unknown, is the tool of the clever that keeps the weak in line" … Tim O'Shea, DC

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." …Thomas Edison

“The Laws of Ecology: "All things are interconnected. Everything goes somewhere. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Nature bats last." … Ernest Callenbach

“What a strange religion medicine makes. It's the only religion that is federally backed, and even amid scientific controversy, cannot be questioned openly without persecution or ridicule." ...unknown

“A good rule of thumb: Vitamin C should be given while the doctor ponders the diagnosis." … Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P.

"HARM" seems to be intrinsic part of "pHARMa" ... unknown

“MD's are those who think we have an excess of organs and a deficiency of drugs” … Donna C.

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease” … Voltaire

"Modern medicine" may well be defined as "the experimental study of what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished human bodies." … A. Saul - Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed…When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.” … Dresden James

"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases." … Moliere

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
"God heals and the Doctor takes the fee." … Benjamin Franklin

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them” … Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

“If you think that something is right just because everyone believes it, then you are not thinking" … Vievienne Westwood

“Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” … Winston Churchill

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." … Ghandi

“Your failure to be informed does not make me a wacko." … John Loeffler

“God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” … 1 Corinthians 1:27

“People change for two reasons, They either learn so much they want to or they hurt so bad they have to.” ... unknown

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ... James Madison

Well there you have them, gems every one. If you find them providing you solace then you too are probably a misfit and miscreant and you can come back any time for comfort and consolation. I will continue posting such pearls and welcome contribution to this list.

Healthcare On A Blog About Constantine?

Great question if I do say so myself.

The connection lies in the fact that the cultural shift concretized by Constantine (most obviously seen in the anti semitic results of his various councils) led people away from a true "In God We Trust" mindset to one where this credo only appears on the back of our money. Previously, health issues were viewed relative to The Creator and his instructions as vividly depicted in the story related in John 9:2. This example is by no means intended to demonstrate the Christian view but rather the first century view in Israel regardless of what flavor of Judaism you were practicing.

Once Constantine made official the split between Jews and followers of the Nazarene that Christians refer to as Jesus, the connection between health and adherence to The Creators instructions (Torah) was destroyed. While the heretic Marcion's popularization of the term "Old Testament" didn't help matters, Constantine is the easiest and most prominent scapegoat.

In fact, Constantine should probably become the patron saint of both the Medical and Insurance industries. Once we stopped viewing malady's as often the consequence of deviating from the path of Torah (the real meaning of the word sin before all kinds of nasty baggage got attached to this word) we had to look to human healers to fix us.