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Did God create germs , viruses and parasites ?

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The system is so corrupt, finding the truth can take years, and often does. Likewise, the 'stories' you posted about, you would be totally flabbergasted to find out how many people were willingly "put to sleep" (to be most gentle) instead of allowing them to tell others the truth,
or to let something good and right become known.

The government only allows testing for one chemical at a time.
Combinations of drugs or uncontrolled sourced "cures" are understandably
impossible to test for safety. Many cancer victims prefer to live and
die a more natural death.
 
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Historical accounts are always from a particular point of view.
None of them need be fiction.

Bible is different historical book than most of them because it contain prophecy , it predicts in future things to come , historical books only tell the past .
 
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about these cures
Whoa ! Tell me about these cures. My good friend, a full professor of microbiology at a major university has dedicated his life to finding a cancer cure. His motives are pure, he is a Christian, However, he tells me that whoever discovers a real cure, will become the richest person on earth, further, whichever company buys it will become one of the richest on earth.

Why would anyone want to suppress a cure ?

Becasue they don't have control? And it would interfere with
other money flowing, like your friends job currently supporting
his family? This hasn't occurred to you?
 
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Bible is different historical book than most of them because it contain prophecy , it predicts in future things to come , historical books only tell the past .
Prophetical accounts are always from a particular point of view.
None of them need be fiction.
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

What did Cymothoa exigua eat before fall ?

What did these larva eat before the curse ? They feed of blood and live in muscles .




Did Noah take germs,viruses and parasites with him on ark ?
Do you think that when Jesus returns he will remove these germs , viruses and parasites ?

I understand that there are useful germs which help for example termite gut microbes . Were all germs helpfull before fall ?
How parasite eating eyeball can be called "very good " by God on day 7 ?



Viruses are retrograde creatures that de-evolved over time. I believe Adam and Eve incarnate on a previously evolved, populated, fallen earth. Had they not sinned also, then they would have had the knowledge to eliminate these viruses and genetic defects.


If Noah's ark was actually true then yes, Noah would have had to have the viruses with him.
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

What did Cymothoa exigua eat before fall ?

What did these larva eat before the curse ? They feed of blood and live in muscles .


Did Noah take germs,viruses and parasites with him on ark ?
Do you think that when Jesus returns he will remove these germs , viruses and parasites ?

I understand that there are useful germs which help for example termite gut microbes . Were all germs helpfull before fall ?
How parasite eating eyeball can be called "very good " by God on day 7 ?
This world is corrupt. Sin leads to death. People have to learn knowledge to survive here. Tools to help us cope are available on this corrupt planet.

For many years people were afflicted with smallpox. In the 18th century Edward Jenner learned to vaccinate people to prevent smallpox. Many diseases have been overcome by knowledge of vaccination.

For many years malaria has been transmitted malaria by mosquito bites. Small blood parasites are responsible for the disease. Peruvian Indians discovered the bark of the cinchona tree could be used to treat malaria. Europeans used this knowledge to heal people.

The Chinese were losing people to a type of malaria resistant to known medications. A Chinese scientist started to research ancient folk remedies for malaria. She found a text from 340 AD about an extract from sweet wormwood used to cure intermittent fever. She successfully extracted and tested the compound found in the plant. Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize in 2015 for her work in developing a new anti-malaria drug.

This world is a work in progress. John advised us to not think too highly of this place (1 John 2:15) Christians hope God will someday create a better heaven and earth (2 Peter 3).
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

Some illnesses are to be seen as a test. In my life, I have been blind. I have had major hormone dysfunction, I have endured MRSA, D-Diff, and flesh eating bacteria. Did I ask God for these things? NO. He blessed me with them so I could learn humility and patience. C-Diff is an intestinal bug that normally lives in your gut with no problem at all. But with the heavy doses of antibiotics I was taking to get rid of MRSA, it ended up taking over my gut. I ended up in bed, naked most of the time (it was impossible to keep a diaper clean on me for more than a few moments), in a lot of pain, with and endless string of people running this test and that test, checking my temp, pulse, changing IV bags, etc. I was robbed of every shred of decency.

I soon learned that when in a hospital modesty flies out the window.

Did I enjoy that time in the hospital? NO! But I was able to profit from it, in that I learned what patience and humility actually are, and learned how to live in them.
 
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Some illnesses are to be seen as a test. In my life, I have been blind. I have had major hormone dysfunction, I have endured MRSA, D-Diff, and flesh eating bacteria. Did I ask God for these things? NO. He blessed me with them so I could learn humility and patience. C-Diff is an intestinal bug that normally lives in your gut with no problem at all. But with the heavy doses of antibiotics I was taking to get rid of MRSA, it ended up taking over my gut. I ended up in bed, naked most of the time (it was impossible to keep a diaper clean on me for more than a few moments), in a lot of pain, with and endless string of people running this test and that test, checking my temp, pulse, changing IV bags, etc. I was robbed of every shred of decency.

I soon learned that when in a hospital modesty flies out the window.

Did I enjoy that time in the hospital? NO! But I was able to profit from it, in that I learned what patience and humility actually are, and learned how to live in them.

I try hard not to consider my fellow posters as naked
in bed battling flesh eating bacteria. Thanks for testing
me. What does not make me throw-up, makes me stronger.
 
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16 years ago I was taken to hospital bleeding from both ends. I was quickly diagnosed with bleeding ulcers. I thought that I would likely have part of my stomach removed and be on a strict diet for the rest of life. Not so. Five days later I walked out completely cured. The following year an unknown doctor working out of a small hospital in Australia was given the Nobel Prize in medicine.
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

What did Cymothoa exigua eat before fall ?

What did these larva eat before the curse ? They feed of blood and live in muscles .


Did Noah take germs,viruses and parasites with him on ark ?
Do you think that when Jesus returns he will remove these germs , viruses and parasites ?

I understand that there are useful germs which help for example termite gut microbes . Were all germs helpfull before fall ?
How parasite eating eyeball can be called "very good " by God on day 7 ?
I am not sure that these things existed before the Fall. But the result of man's disobedience to the command of God which caused his fall, the world was blighted. This was an act of God. He did it. He changed the nature of world and made it a much more difficult place to live. This is why instead of good plants, those plants were changed to weeds and thistles to make man's agricultural work much harder so that he had to eat his food by the sweat of his brow. Sickness and disease also entered into the world, so it seems that God changed what were previous benign organisms into harmful microbes and germs that brought sickness and disease to people and animals. Before the Fall, everything in God's creation was "very good". But this goodness changed when man fell into sin and while some goodness remained in creation, a lot of badness resulting from sin entered into the world.
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

What did Cymothoa exigua eat before fall ?

What did these larva eat before the curse ? They feed of blood and live in muscles .


Did Noah take germs,viruses and parasites with him on ark ?
Do you think that when Jesus returns he will remove these germs , viruses and parasites ?

I understand that there are useful germs which help for example termite gut microbes . Were all germs helpfull before fall ?
How parasite eating eyeball can be called "very good " by God on day 7 ?
Life would be a paradise if we didn't sin, but we sin.
 
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Somebody who does not believe God from the Bible made argument that "why would loving God of the Bible create parasite which is living inside eyeball ? "

You could answer him that it was due to God cursing the earth after Adam sin but what did parasites eat before the fall ? Were there germs on everything before fall ? Are germs animals ?

Couldn't God just not create parasites which live inside of eyeball or in brain slowly eating it from inside ?

What did Cymothoa exigua eat before fall ?

What did these larva eat before the curse ? They feed of blood and live in muscles .


Did Noah take germs,viruses and parasites with him on ark ?
Do you think that when Jesus returns he will remove these germs , viruses and parasites ?

I understand that there are useful germs which help for example termite gut microbes . Were all germs helpfull before fall ?
How parasite eating eyeball can be called "very good " by God on day 7 ?
Species of beneficial bacteria and other organisms far out weigh the presence of detrimental varieties, in the current world.

It is easy to see that a number of what may have been (and still are) beneficial species mutated as a result of this worlds broken relationship with its Creator.
 
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When Adam sinned he severed his bond with God, himelf, Woman, and Creation. Creation didn't change, God didn't change. Adam lost the Grace to become the Children of God Creation was waiting for.
 
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The government only allows testing for one chemical at a time.
Combinations of drugs or uncontrolled sourced "cures" are understandably
impossible to test for safety. Many cancer victims prefer to live and
die a more natural death.

The government allows testing for more than one chemical at a time when the pharmaceutical company asserts the combination is better than either alone.
 
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I try hard not to consider my fellow posters as naked
in bed battling flesh eating bacteria. Thanks for testing
me. What does not make me throw-up, makes me stronger.

It's actually pretty disgusting to think about it . Imagine Jesus washing feet of Peter , then Jesus say to him "you are clean " after washing his feet , meanwhile Peter is being eaten by millions of bacteria who feed on his dead skin which is shed by his body few times a day...

Everything close up looks disgusting and has hairs and other stuff inside of it , I'm glad that we don't have better vision .
 
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When Adam sinned he severed his bond with God, himelf, Woman, and Creation. Creation didn't change, God didn't change. Adam lost the Grace to become the Children of God Creation was waiting for.

20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
lof which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”
 
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