SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Medicine suggests that we are victims of sickness‚ attacked by a bad organism‚ having a bad organ‚ cursed by bad genes‚ etc. In reality‚ illness is most often a result of our own choices not dependent on uncontrollable factors. Disease-causing organisms are scavengers; they cannot find a home in a healthy body with a strong immune system. Bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasitic infection is not the primary cause of disease but rather its result. Even the father of the germ theory‚ Pasteur‚ began to understand the true relationship of germs to disease late in his life‚ when he stated: “The germ is nothing‚ the soil [the condition of the body] is everything‚†meaning that a germ can only thrive in a suitable environment.
God’s law is written by His own finger upon every nerve‚ every muscle‚ and every faculty which has been entrusted to man. God in His wisdom has established natural laws for the proper control of dress‚ appetites‚ and passions‚ and He requires of us obedience in every particular; this determines the condition of our health. All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to obedience or to transgression of natural law.
God loves His creatures with a love that is both tender and strong. He has established the laws of nature; but His laws are not arbitrary exactions. Every “Thou shalt not‚” whether in physical or moral law‚ contains or implies a promise. If it is obeyed‚ blessings will attend our steps; if it is disobeyed‚ the result is danger and unhappiness. The transgression of the physical law is transgression of God’s law. As sin is the transgression of the moral law‚ disease is the transgression of the physical law.
Florence Nightingale once said‚ “There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.†Disease is merely a departure from normal health. A careful conformity to the laws which God has implanted in our being will insure health‚ and there will not be a breaking down of the constitution. God has pledged Himself to keep this machinery in healthful action if the human agent will obey His laws‚ and co-operate with him.
When we realize that disease is the result of transgression of God’s physical laws‚ the cure for it is found in identifying the cause. Remove the cause and we have found the cure.
Zakaria Mohamad 
