The Origin of Medical Science - Donald G Wofford - October 1959

Donald G Wofford

Is "modern medicine" really modern? Read the surprising facts about the true origin of today's medical practices, written by a staff member of the News Gathering Department of Ambassador College. MEDICAL science is not modern - it is thousands of years old! Notice the Old Testament examples of going to a physician or doctor. King Asa sought the physicians to cure his foot trouble. "Asa... was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease be sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa... died!" (II Chron. 16:12-13.) Asa wasn't cured! King Ahaziah fell sick. He too sought the physicians - the representatives of Haalzebub, the god of medicine. But they could not cure him (II Kings 1:2-4, 16-17). Even in early New Testament times we have the record of "a woman, having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any" (Luke 8:43). This woman's case is not uncommon today! Many of you "spent all your living upon physicians" and yet weren't any better! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library