Bible & Medicine
Faith helps us consider meaning, dignity, ethics, service, and hope. Medicine provides evidence-based approaches to understanding the human body, health, disease, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Why medicine belongs in this project
Numbers 19 brings together themes of the body, death, cleansing, and restoration. Seventh-day Adventism also has a longstanding tradition of health ministry and whole-person care. Together, these themes create a meaningful setting for thoughtful study while preserving the distinct roles of biblical theology and medical science.
What we hope to explore
Blood & Life
The biblical meaning of blood alongside hematology, circulation, oxygen transport, immunity, and coagulation.
Death & Dying
Biblical anthropology, resurrection, physiologic death, end-of-life ethics, grief, and compassionate care.
Purity & Disease
Ritual purity, infection, dermatology, hygiene, and the importance of distinguishing the biblical ceremonial category of “unclean” from a medical diagnosis.
Nutrition & Lifestyle
Adventist health principles considered alongside current evidence in nutrition, sleep, exercise, prevention, and chronic disease.
Mental Health
Depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, substance-use disorders, pastoral care, and the dignity of people experiencing emotional, behavioral, or psychological distress.
Medical Ethics
Human dignity, informed consent, reproductive medicine, organ transplantation, end-of-life decisions, and new medical technologies.
Standards for responsible health communication
Health communication should be compassionate, evidence-aware, and clinically responsible. Prayer and spiritual care may accompany appropriate medical evaluation and treatment. Statements about nutrition, lifestyle interventions, medications, procedures, or natural products should reflect the strength and limits of the available evidence. A person’s illness or health outcome should never be used as a measure of the sincerity or adequacy of that person’s faith.
We want the medical side of this ministry to reflect both faithfulness and professional responsibility: compassionate toward every person, transparent about evidence and uncertainty, attentive to appropriate standards of care, and grounded in the conviction that every person bears God-given dignity.
Health and medical content on this site is provided for general educational purposes. It does not establish a clinician-patient relationship and does not replace individualized medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment from a qualified healthcare professional.