“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20
Rather than ignoring nature, we should look to nature to understand God. Yeshua AKA Jesus, used nature to explain the operations of the Kingdom. He was the original “rule of law” candidate for the Torah, or Law in our hearts!
He said:
““The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”” John 3:8
The wind, or ruach in Hebrew, teaches us about the Holy Spirit. Even more, it teaches us how we are to live in the Spirit.
More about that later, but for now, I just want to establish that it is scriptural and normal to biblical thinking to learn of the things of God and the Kingdom through natural manifestations and principles.
The Ancients who brought forth acupuncture studied nature in this way and we have tremendous insights that have not been diminished by the dark ages. Through the wisdom which is paralleled in the Bible, but shaded by the bias and sometimes outright ignorance of translators, we can learn much about how God designed us, to function.
Let me give you one example of what I am talking about with respect to translator bias and maybe ignorance. The Hebrew word “kilya” means kidney. It is translated as kidney many times in terms of the part of the animal to be sacrificed.
“But the fat, the kidneys,(kilya) and the fatty lobe from the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.” Leviticus 9:10
Yet later in the bible the same word is translated as: mind or reigns
“Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just; For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds(kilya).” Psalms 7:9 NKJV
“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.(kilya)” Psalms 7:9KJV
The translators, seeing from a dualism of separation of the mind and body, know that the verse is contextually related to the mind and heart and decide to alter the literal translation and then justify it by calling it “symbolic”. They cannot conceive in their dualistic reductionist worldview that the kidneys could be connected to the mind.
Modern medicine would agree on the surface with the same conclusion. BUT when we extend our understanding the kidneys to the adrenal glands which sit on top of the kidneys and we open up to the hormonal world and its affect on our thinking and actions suddenly these artificial distinctions born of ignorance disappear. Dualism has separated people physically and mentally for so long that we think someone is crazy if they have emotional components to their physical issues.
In this reasoning we are like those who persecuted Copernicus for challenging the prevailing wisdom that the Earth was the center of the universe, an idea full of mathematical errors that needed a new perspective. He proposed and was attacked for the model of the solar system we have today.
In a similar fashion, Chinese Medicine has never accepted the concept of dualism. Instead they view correctly that the body and the mind are one. Oneness should be no surprise to Biblical students but when we live in a dualistic world and it takes intellectual and spiritual honesty to pierce the veil.
Onward and upward! The Ancients mapped out the causes and effects of physical, emotional and mental functioning. They operated from an educational context believing that people are free agents but they deserve the best information on how to live and manifest abundant health in all areas of life. Yeshua echoed this when He said:
““The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10.
Our lives are designed for abundance. The opposite of abundance is lack. Lack of health and lack of emotional and mental well being are symptoms of poor education. That’s enough for this blog but next time we will drill deep into the well of wisdom that explains how our bodies minds and emotions map out wellness and dis-ease.
Blessings in Him
AcuPastor, David