Seems like science is always playing “catch up” with the Bible. The first five books of the Old Testament, admittedly, are not devoted entirely to the subject of medical prescriptions. They’re not ancient medical textbooks. These books do, however, contain numerous regulations for sanitation, quarantine, and other medical procedures that were to govern the daily lives of the Israelite nation. In fact, the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) exhibits an understanding of germs and disease that much “modern” medicine did not grasp for 3,500 years after the books were written. 

Dr. Hugh Ross from Reasons to Believe joins us to chat a bit about this.