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Human
Body
Leprosy
William
Barclay described what a leper looks like:
“The whole appearance of
the face is changed
till the man loses his human appearance and looks
as the
ancients said
‘like a lion or a satyr.’ The bodules grow larger and larger. They
ulcerate. From them there comes a foul discharge. The eyebrows fall out
the
eyes become staring. The voice becomes hoarse and the victim wheezes because of
the ulceration of the vocal chords. The hands and feet always ulcerate. Slowly
the sufferer becomes a mass of ulcerated growths. The average course of the
disease is nine years
and it ends in mental decay
coma
and ultimately death.
The sufferer becomes utterly repulsive-both to himself and to others.” ──
Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
A 150 pound man is made up of:
92.4 lbs. oxygen
31.5 lbs. carbon
14.6 lbs. hydrogen
4.6 lbs. nitrogen
2.8 lbs. phosphorous
1.12 lbs. chlorine
1.02 lbs. iron
0.34 lbs potassium
0.24 lbs. sulphur
0.12 lbs sodium
0.04 lbs magnesium
0.02 lbs. flourine
── Source
Unknown.
What is carnality?
According to the Greek dictionary
it means to have the nature and
characteristics of the flesh (or more simply
it means "fleshly").
What
then
is the flesh? Sometimes it refers to the whole material part of
man (1 Corinthians 15:39; Hebrews 5:7)
and based on this meaning
carnal
sometimes relates to material things like money (Romans 15:27) or to the
opposite of our weapons of spiritual warfare (2 Corinthians 10:4). But the word
flesh also has a metaphorical sense when it refers to our disposition to sin
and to oppose or omit God in our lives. The flesh is characterized by works
that include lusts and passions (Galatians 5:19-24; I John 2:16); it can
enslave (Romans 7:25); and in it is nothing good (Romans 7:18). Based on this
meaning of the word flesh
to be carnal means to be characterized by things
that belong to the unsaved life (Ephesians 2:3). ── Charles Ryrie
So Great Salvation
Victor
Books
1989
pp. 59-60.
For truth is
precious and divine
Too rich a pearl for
carnal swine.
── Samuel
Butler