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When I was little and I cut my finger I stuck it in my mouth because it made it feel better. When I got my braces on, they scratched the inside of my cheek but it always healed pretty quickly compared to if I scratched my finger with my braces.In the Gospel of John there is the story of Jesus healing a blind man:
"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
As long as I an in the world, I am the light of the world.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made a clay of the spittle and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
Some said, This is he: others [said]. he is like him: [but] he said, I am [he].
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes , and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash : and I went and washed, and I received sight" John 9:1:18
I heard this Bible story in church when I was about eight and it dawned on me that maybe spit did heal and Jesus used it so obviously he knew that it healed.
Between this Bible story and my own personal experiInce I always thought that saliva had some sort of healing properties. So the other day I was excited to find an article about how saliva can speed the healing of wounds and some recent studies they did on it. Very interesting article, especially because it confirms my own thoughts. That's always nice. =D
You should read the article. (I have to be blunt because hinting doesn't work, so I'm just blunt even though it doesn't look good on a written page :)
It's interesting that Jesus heals the blind man in the Bible using his spit, because often in the Bible when God says things there is more than a moral interest behind it. Such as when God told the Israelites not to eat pork. God was protecting the Israelites. Because pigs have similar anatomy to humans, disease travels easily between pigs and humans. So by not eating pork the Israelites were protected from many diseases.
Isn't that amazing? By trusting in God the Israelites kept from getting sickness.
I hope you found it all as interesting as I did =)
~Ness
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