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 Many
"modern" discoveries are found to be but proofs of the
prior knowledge of God; knowledge prior to and
independent of the experiences of man. But the example below has
double merit because of the wide gap of time between the
statement of God, and the current medical "proofs." We
have plucked the following from pages 22-23, "None of These
Diseases," a book by S. I. McMillen, M.D.; published by
Fleming H. Revell Co., Westwood N. J., 1963.
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"It
is felt that the tendency to hemorrhage is due to the fact that
the important blood-clotting element, vitamin K, is not formed
in the normal amount until the fifth to the seventh
day of life. If vitamin K is not manufactured in the baby's
intestinal tract until the fifth to the seventh
day, it is clear that the first safe day to perform circumcision
would be the eighth day, the very day that Jehovah
commanded Abraham to circumcise Isaac.
A
second element which is also necessary for the normal clotting
of blood is prothrombin. A chart based on data discussed in Holt
Pediatrics reveals that on the third day of a baby's life
the available prothrombin is only thirty per cent of normal. Any
surgical operation performed on a baby during that time would
predispose to serious hemorrhage. From the chart we also see
that the prothrombin skyrockets on the eighth day to a level
even better than normal — 110 per cent. It then levels off to
100 per cent. It appears that an eight-day-old baby has more
available prothrombin than on any other day in its entire life.
Thus one observes that from a
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consideration of vitamin K and
prothrombin determinations the perfect day to perform a
circumcision is the eighth day.
We
would commend the many hundreds of workers who labored at great
expense over a number of years to discover that the safest day
to perform circumcision is the eighth. Yet, as we congratulate
medical science for this recent finding, we can almost hear the
leaves of the Bible rustling. They would like to remind us that
four thousand years ago, when God initiated circumcision
with Abraham, He said, "And he that is eight days old shall
be circum- cised..." (Gen.17:12)
Abraham
did not pick the eighth day after centuries of trial-and-error
experiments. Neither he nor any of his company from the ancient
city of Ur in the Chaldees had ever been circumcised. It was a
day picked by the Creator of vitamin K."
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Dr.
McMillen also comments on the instructions of God through Moses
re. Quarantine of the sick (See Lev.13:), and careful washing of
the person and all objects contaminated by that which is
"unclean." (Num.19:) He concludes that man
"learned, after centuries and at a frightful cost, what God
gave to Moses by inspiration."
Someday
our own "modern" brethren may discover that God's ways
are indeed
"pragmatic" and "relevant" in our age. GOD'S
WAYS ARE SUITED TO THE MAN THAT GOD MADE, FOR ALL TIME!!
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