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new section "Jesus and leprosy"
"According to Dr. Barbara Stryjdwska, Clinician at the National Hansen’s Disease Programs in Louisiana, there are only approximately 150 new leprosy cases each year in the United States, and most of these are in immigrants coming from countries where Hansen’s Disease is endemic. In 2002, 96 cases were reported to the [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention]]. The incidence may be greater however, because many patients do not want to be reported because of their immigrant status. Additionally, if patients do not seek or purchase treatment, they are hard to be tracked. ... Because leprosy is such a small problem in the United States, and since 90% of cases are imported (immigrants from countries where leprosy is endemic), there is little reason for a leprosy vaccine to actually be utilized in the United States ...."<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2006/Leprosy_vaccine/vaccineinus.htm A Vaccine for Leprosy, Kiyana Harris, Stanford University (stanford.edu)]</ref>
"According to Dr. Barbara Stryjdwska, Clinician at the National Hansen’s Disease Programs in Louisiana, there are only approximately 150 new leprosy cases each year in the United States, and most of these are in immigrants coming from countries where Hansen’s Disease is endemic. In 2002, 96 cases were reported to the [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention]]. The incidence may be greater however, because many patients do not want to be reported because of their immigrant status. Additionally, if patients do not seek or purchase treatment, they are hard to be tracked. ... Because leprosy is such a small problem in the United States, and since 90% of cases are imported (immigrants from countries where leprosy is endemic), there is little reason for a leprosy vaccine to actually be utilized in the United States ...."<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2006/Leprosy_vaccine/vaccineinus.htm A Vaccine for Leprosy, Kiyana Harris, Stanford University (stanford.edu)]</ref>
==Jesus and leprosy==
::''main article [[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) longer form Chapters 8-14#Eleven|Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version), Chapter Eleven, marginal note.'']]
"'''he stretched out his hand and touched him'''" Luke 5:13
:''See the following texts'' <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+6%3A17&version=RSVCE 2 Corinthians 6:17] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+52%3A11&version=RSVCE Isaiah 52:11], <br> "touch not the unclean"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+13%3A44-46&version=RSVCE Leviticus 13:44-46] <br> "he is a leprous man, he is unclean"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19%3A22&version=RSVCE Numbers 19:22] <br> "whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and any one who touches it shall be unclean"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+5%3A3&version=RSVCE Leviticus 5:3], <br> "if he touches human uncleanness...he shall be guilty"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+11%3A43-45&version=RSVCE Leviticus 11:43-45] <br> "you shall not make yourselves abominable"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19%3A20&version=RSVCE Numbers 19:20] <br> "the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly"
:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A20-21&version=KJV Deuteronomy 29:20-21 KJV] <br> "The L<small>ORD</small> will not spare him, but then the anger of the L<small>ORD</small> and his jealousy shall smoke against that man".
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+13-14&version=RSVCE Leviticus 13 and 14] <br> "leprosy...is unclean"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+5%3A1-4&version=RSVCE Numbers 5:1-4] <br> "The L<small>ORD</small> said to Moses, 'command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper...putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+24%3A8&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 24:8] <br> "in an attack of leprosy, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+35%3A34&version=RSVCE Numbers 35:34] <br> "you shall not defile the land in which you live"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+15%3A31&version=RSVCE Leviticus 15:31] <br> "keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die...by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst",
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A7-8&version=RSVCE Leviticus 20:7-8] <br> "consecrate yourselves and be holy",
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A26&version=RSVCE Leviticus 20:26] <br> "for I the L<small>ORD</small> am holy, and have separated you"
: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+27%3A26&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 27:26] <br> "Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them".
:If Jesus were only a man he could have done nothing ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9%3A33&version=RSVCE John 9:33]). Any ordinary man who deliberately touched any unclean leper defiantly broke the law of Moses, deliberately made himself abominable, unclean, and thus showed that he was an ordinary man who sinfully defied God, ''[[ipso facto]]'' immediately [[Excommunication|cutting himself off from the assembly]] of the people of God (Latin ''[[latae sententiae]]''), and thus demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he was under the curse of God. Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A10-15&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 29:10-15], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A19-21&version=RSVCE 19-21].
:Jesus ''deliberately'' touched people who were unclean, with unclean diseases, who had unclean spirits, and he was touched by people who were unclean—he even touched dead corpses.
::([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A24&version=RSVCE Matthew 4:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A35&version=RSVCE 9:35]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+1%3A32-34&version=RSVCE Mark 1:32-34]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+7%3A14-17&version=RSVCE Luke 7:14-17] ''with'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lamentations+4%3A14-15&version=RSVCE Lamentations 4:14-15] ''and'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19%3A14-22&version=RSVCE Numbers 19:14-22]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+9%3A6-12&version=RSVCE Numbers 9:6-12] ''with'' [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/luke/11-44.htm Luke 11:44 ''and commentaries''].)
:According to the law of Moses this made him unclean, and cursed. (The fact that Jesus was crucified "on the tree" also made him unclean, and a curse, according to the law. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A10-14&version=RSVCE Galatians 3:10-14].)
:Throughout the ''[[Tanakh]]'' and the [[Talmud]] only the L<small>ORD</small> God made anyone clean and holy. (''The reader is invited to carefully search this, to see if this is so.'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A11-12&version=RSVCE Acts 17:11-12]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+5%3A39-47&version=RSVCE John 5:39-47].)
:By actually making the unclean leper clean, Jesus demonstrates that he is God ''and'' man, the '''LORD''' "''who makes you clean''" ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+16%3A30&version=RSVCE Leviticus 16:30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A8&version=RSVCE 20:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+33%3A8&version=RSVCE Jeremiah 33:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+36%3A25-26&version=RSVCE Ezekiel 36:25-26], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+36%3A29&version=RSVCE 29], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+36%3A33&version=RSVCE 33]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+15%3A26&version=RSVCE Exodus 15:26 "...for I ''am'' the L<small>ORD</small> that healeth thee"]).
:See also the article <br> [http://internetbiblecollege.net/Lessons/Sanctification%20In%20The%20Old%20Testament.pdf Sanctification In The Old Testament (internetbiblecollege.net)] pdf.
:The prophet [[Elisha]] only told Naaman the Syrian, a leper, to wash in the Jordan River, but he did not claim to have cleansed him of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5&version=RSVCE 2 Kings 5]). <br> The Levitical priests, upon examination of anyone who had become clean of leprosy, were authorized to declare that anyone formerly afflicted with leprosy was now clean, but they themselves did not cleanse anyone of leprosy. In the ritual sacrifices they offered for cleansing it is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel who cleanses and forgives them in accepting their ritual sacrifices and offerings—the ritual offerings themselves did not cleanse them within, and certainly not from the uncleanness of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A11&version=RSVCE Hebrews 10:11]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+51&version=RSVCE Psalm 51]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+1%3A4&version=RSVCE Leviticus 1:4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A5&version=RSVCE 19:5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A29&version=RSVCE 19:29]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A29&version=RSVCE 22:29]), .
:In the Gospel, Jesus is the one who personally and directly makes lepers clean (''see also'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A11-19&version=RSVCE Luke 17:11-19]). This is [[Evidence|evidentiary]] [[testimony]] from eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1-2), based on the Jewish scriptures, that Jesus Himself is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel Who alone cleanses from disease and sin. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+103%3A2-3&version=RSVCE Psalm 103:2-3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+33%3A8&version=RSVCE Jeremiah 33:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+12%3A40&version=RSVCE John 12:40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A8&version=RSVCE Matthew 10:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+16%3A17-18&version=RSVCE Mark 16:17-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5%3A14-16&version=RSVCE James 5:14-16].
:Online searches for explicit accounts of miraculous cures of leprosy (including [[Leprosy|Hansen's Disease]]) after the time of Jesus have to date yielded no results or findings, either legendary or documented, by any Christian church, sect, or denomination, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant or Independent, through miraculous touch or answer to prayer or [[intercession]]s or relic or blessed cloths or going to any miraculous site or shrine. (''attempts made'' 5/29/2019).
:Compare the following:
:*[https://answersingenesis.org/biology/disease/biblical-leprosy-shedding-light-on-the-disease-that-shuns/ Answers In Genesis. Answers Magazine. <br>Biblical Leprosy: Shedding Light on the Disease that Shuns, by Dr. Alan L. Gillen (answersingenesis.org)]
:*[http://smoch.org/christian_medicine.html The Influence of Christianity on Medicine Up to the Renaissance, SMOCH Sacred Medical Order - Church of Hope (smoch.org)]
:*[https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/pilgrims-may-have-spread-leprosy-across-medieval-europe Pilgims may have spread leprosy across medieval Europe - Amy Middleton reports (cosmosmagazine.com)]<br>"Throughout the medieval period the act of pilgrimage was viewed as a particularly efficacious spiritual and devotional practice and many of the medieval saints' shrines were associated with miraculous cures and healing, including leprosy." Researchers Simon Roffey and Katie Tucker, University of Winchester, and Michael Taylor, University of Surrey. ''No specific details are given.''
:*[https://core.ac.uk/display/63729755 A relation of the miraculous cure of Susannah Arch: of a leprosy and ptysick, wherewith for years past she had been sorely afflicted, Susannah Arch, Robert Hume (Apothecary), Thomas Fortey and b. 1627. Charles Nichols (core.ac.uk)]<br>See [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A45118.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext '''Full Text, 1695''' (quod.lib.umich.edu)]
:*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlQelg1Xl3c Amma Cures Dattan the Leper - YouTube.<br> Author Ethan Walker III (youtube.com)] accessed 5/29/2019. (''Video featuring healing accompanied by audio Indian musical chant of names of Hindu gods, with brief descriptive printed text below the picture''.)
:Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A38-40&version=RSVCE Mark 9:38-40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9%3A49-50&version=RSVCE Luke 9:49-50]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+11%3A23&version=RSVCE 11:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A30&version=RSVCE Matthew 12:30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+11%3A27-29&version=RSVCE Numbers 11:27-29]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A24&version=RSVCE Matthew 24:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+13&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 13].
== See also ==
== See also ==