God and Germs

[Apologiaphoenix]

Why didn't God tell us about germs?

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[QuantaFille]

All that stuff in the Law about quarantining sick people, and not touching someone else's blood, and making sure your metal cooking pots are clean before cooking meat... Those get skipped by people who say the kinds of things this guy is saying.

[KingsGambit]

All that stuff in the Law about quarantining sick people, and not touching someone else's blood, and making sure your metal cooking pots are clean before cooking meat... Those get skipped by people who say the kinds of things this guy is saying.

I previously proposed that as a possible apologetic but the general consensus seems to have been that these were ritual purity laws. Still, I think it's an idea worth exploring.

[QuantaFille]

I previously proposed that as a possible apologetic but the general consensus seems to have been that these were ritual purity laws. Still, I think it's an idea worth exploring.

I know they are. It's just awfully coincidental that they conveniently had practical reasons behind them, as well.

[MaxVel]

It's another from the school of 'I know better than God' objections. Jesus must really be kicking Himself that He wasn't born in the last 20 years or so, when we have the Internet, and know everything.

[rogue06]

I previously proposed that as a possible apologetic but the general consensus seems to have been that these were ritual purity laws. Still, I think it's an idea worth exploring.

Were the instructions to to "have a place outside the camp and go out there, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement" part of ritual purity laws?