Now the internal evidence
Scientific Accuracy
The Bible revealed scientific facts hundreds and thousands of years before science learned about them.
God said to Noah to build the ark and coat (or paint ) with pitch. That means pitch which is a (hydrocarbon). This means that the land is rich in natural minerals of Crude oil and other hydro-carbon minerals. This idea has caused the Scientists to explore the land for oil. Now we see the entire middle east including the Mesopotamia, Iran Iraq has full of crude oil minerals..
While it is true that the Bible is not primarily a science book, not a text book designed to speak to your mind, but rather a love letter to speak to your heart, we should remember that the God of salvation is the God of creation and when the Bible does speak on scientific matters, it speaks with complete authority and absolute certainty and accuracy.
Every once in a while you’ll hear about modern science disagreeing with the Bible. What should we do when this happens? Be patient, and give science time to catch up! Science has always needed to catch up with the Bible. Some examples:
Medicine:
As recently as 1600 doctors and scientists still believed that many ailments and diseases were a result of the human body having too much blood. But now, science knows, it is the blood that fights diseases (WBC), brings nourishment, repairs tissue, promotes growth. If only they had read (Lev. 17:11), “the life of the flesh is in the blood.”
The Plague
14th Century – black plague decimated the population in Europe, as 1 in 4 people died!
It wasn’t the scientists/doctors who brought the plague under control, it was the church. The church applied a principle to the situation that was unheard of in that day, but which we take for granted today – quarantine! (Lev. 13:46) “He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.”
People in Moses’ day didn’t know anything about microbiology. They didn’t know what a germ or virus was! But God gave them the principle of quarantine.
Hand Washing
In 1800’s – a Physician in Vienna named Semovice, in charge of a hospital there, many pregnant women were coming in for routine testing and examination. But immediately after examination, many of them were dying of infection. Semovice noticed that doctors were entering the OB area from all other areas of the hospital, including the morgue, without washing their hands. So he made it a rule the doctors had to come after washing the hands “this was ridiculous in those days, but it worked and the slowed the infection!
The medical field today knows to wash up, but only because science has caught up with the Bible in this area.
Thousands of years ago, Moses said in (Num.19:14-19): “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; 15 and every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. 16 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 ‘And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.”
Principles here: quarantine, washing with water, changing clothes, gives time interval for bacteria to die.
How did Moses knew these things? Because “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” (2 Tim.3:16)
The first 5 books of the Bible, written down by Moses. Where was Moses from? Egypt!
Egypt was the leader in the medical trade in those days. The ancient Egyptians were considered to be brilliant in the area of medicine. Archaeologists found a medical book in 1855, “Papyrus Eburs”: a comprehensive book containing virtually all the medical info they had in the time in which Moses lived. Some of the info it contained were simply outlandish.
When we read the dietary code, sanitary code Moses wrote down, we find the highest standards anywhere, and without medical contradiction. why? Because all scripture is given by inspiration!