The Bible places great emphasis on food. Imagine the situation after the disaster: there is a scorched earth covered with thousands of animal corpses.
This picture is literally read in the Bible: “Sulfur and salt, conflagration - the whole earth; it is not sown and does not grow, and no grass comes out on it … And all the nations will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land? What a great fury of His anger!"
Before the catastrophe, humanity ate fruits, vegetables, cereals … The assumption that before the flood the maintenance of the vital activity of human and animal organisms did not require protein food also exists in the Bible: “And God said: behold, I gave you every herb that sows seed is on all the earth, and every tree that has tree fruit that sows seed, this will be your food; But to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every creep that creeps on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all herbal herbs for food”(Gen. 1: 29-30).
After such "information" you involuntarily begin to think: did all living things peacefully eat grass before the flood? Is it possible to? I don't know how possible this is, but the fact that the human gastrointestinal tract is not like that of a carnivore, but like that of a herbivore is a fact.
So, after the catastrophe, humanity has no experience of consuming animal food. The danger of cadaveric poison and other "delights" is still unknown. And I want to eat. "More … the meat was in their teeth, the birds had not yet been eaten, when the anger of the Thunderer kindled on them and he struck them with a great pestilence." But someone quickly figured out the situation and gave instructions on behalf of God:
V 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them:
V 2 tell the children of Israel: these are the animals that you can eat out of all the livestock on the earth:
V 3 every cattle that has cloven hooves and a deep slit on the hooves, and which chews cud, eat;
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V 4 only do not eat these of those who chew gum and have cloven hooves: the camel, because he chews the cud, but his hooves are not cloven; he is unclean to you;
V 5 and a jerboa, because he chews gum, but his hooves are not split, he is unclean to you,
V 6 and the hare, because he chews the cud, but his hooves are not split, he is unclean to you;
V 7 and pigs, because her hooves are split and the cut is deep on her hooves, but she does not chew gum, she is unclean to you;
V 8 Do not eat their flesh, and do not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
V 9 Of all the animals that are in the water, eat these: those that have feathers and scales in the water, whether in the seas or rivers, eat those;
V 10 but all those who have no feathers and scales, whether in the seas or rivers, of all that float in the waters, and of all that dwell in the waters, are filthy to you;
V 11 they must be filthy to you: do not eat their meat, and abhor their carcasses;
V 12 all animals that do not have feathers and scales in the water are bad for you.
V 13 But despise these birds (they must not eat them, they are filthy): the eagle, the vulture, and the sea eagle,
V 14 a kite and a falcon with its breed, V 15 every raven of its kind, V 16 ostrich, owl, gull and hawk with its breed, V 17 eagle owl, fisherman and ibis, V 35 Anything on which anything falls from their corpse will be unclean: the oven and the hearth must break, they are unclean; and they must be unclean to you;
V 36 only the spring and the well containing the water remain clean; but whoever touches their carcass is unclean.
V 37 And if anything of their corpse falls on any seed that is sown, then it is clean;
V 38 if, then, as water is poured over the seed, something from their corpse falls on it, then it is unclean to you.
V 39 And when any livestock that you eat for food dies, he that touches its carcass will be unclean until evening;
V 40 and whoever eats its dead body must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and he who carries his carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
V 41 Every animal that creeps on the ground is bad for you; it must not eat it;
V 42 Do not eat anything that crawls on the belly, and everything that walks on four legs, and that many-legged animals that creep on the ground, do not eat, for they are filthy.
V 43 do not defile your souls with any creeping animal, and do not make yourself unclean through them, so that you may be unclean through them, V 44 For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified and be holy, for I (the Lord your God) is holy; and do not defile your souls with any animal crawling on the ground, V 45 for I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. So be holy, for I am holy.
V 46 This is the law concerning livestock, about birds, about all animals that live in the waters, and about all animals that creep on the ground, V 47 to distinguish the unclean from the clean, and animals that can be eaten from animals that should not be.
Who would argue that this is not pure medical advice: how to eat? But who gave it to humanity?.. This is the knowledge of the XX century!
After the disaster, the person switched to a different diet. Judging by the biblical instructions, the food became coarse, meat began to prevail (appeared?) In the diet. There was a need to give the body rest from heavy food. I'm talking about posts. Fasting was a wise invention. Any of us noticed that in summer, in hot weather, we want to eat less, many have absolutely no appetite. The body itself asks for rest.
The fasts of the ancient Jews took place in the hot summer months. Later, the emerging Christianity did not go into the intricacies of the calendar context. But the ancient Jews lived according to their own calendar, and the calendars in history underwent inconceivable changes, not to mention the fact that the earth's climate was changing. Christians switched to their calendar, and Christian fasts fell on the most difficult months for the body.
Winter is coming to an end, during this period there is an acute shortage of vitamins, the body needs enhanced nutrition, and the church is fasting at this moment. And nothing can convince believers that this harms their health. But this, as they say, is a personal matter for believers. I humbly believe that the meaning of religion is not starvation. But it is also good that from time to time through posts we remember that a person once ate not meat …
“The stove and the hearth must be broken, they are unclean … That which is in it will be unclean, and break the vessel itself…” - A reader familiar with virology will immediately remember that in our time it is impossible to get rid of many viruses. Whole houses are abandoned or simply demolished and new ones built elsewhere. And then all this was new, and God had to give people instructions.
Probably there were no diseases.
Someone may chuckle skeptically: “Well, what about illnesses is exaggerated. Something, but diseases are eternal, they have always been, are and will be. Any unusual judgment looks absurd only before research, before reasoning. Therefore, it is a good habit for a researcher not to consider anything impossible.
The idea that before the catastrophe people did not know disease, I was led by many testimonies and knowledge of how viral epidemics break out. The Bible itself testifies that man lived in paradise without knowing disease and sorrow. Even the ancient author Pliny the Elder still knows about such peoples, this is what he writes about the Hyperboreans: “This country is all in the sun, with a fertile climate and is devoid of any harmful wind. Homes for these residents are groves, forests; the cult of the Gods is managed by individuals and by the whole society; there is no discord or disease. Death comes there only from satiety with life. And the ancient Greek myth about Pandora … I read about the absence of diseases in other ancient peoples.
And after the catastrophe, illnesses flare up with a bright bouquet all over the globe. In the Bible itself it is written in black and white: “… there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in places; yet this is the beginning of disease. Well, how much clearer?
I clearly see the logic of the path of knowledge of the fight against diseases. After the catastrophe, it took humanity several centuries to guess that it is possible to help the body fight the disease by taking chemicals and minerals. Only in the 16th century, from the mouth of the genius Swiss physician Philip Aureol Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim - Paracelsus (1493-1541), mankind heard the word "pill".
And before that, even banal hypertension was treated with bloodletting. A little more than a century ago, mankind realized that the cause of plague, tuberculosis, cholera, etc., are small living things - bacteria that enter the human body. Not even a century has passed since humanity has heard the words "antibiotic", "vitamins" …
We are just learning how to fight the evil we inherited from the catastrophe: disease. If our pre-catastrophic ancestors (who had tremendous knowledge!) Knew about diseases, we would not be at the initial stage of cognition of "evil". If diseases existed from the creation of the world, then the experience of dealing with them would have humanity at this moment simply gigantic.
And we cannot even cope with the common flu. We do not even know its nature. I remember hearing the opinion of a well-known virologist who said that he had the impression that the flu originates from somewhere in the ocean waters, from under the shores of Southeast Asia at moments of tectonic activity and then rolls in waves across the entire Eurasian continent.
Author: Alexander Bogdanov
