WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE FACT THAT YOUR BODY IS GOD’S TEMPLE” is as follows:

“Our bodies are indeed amazing creations.  Your nose has the capability of remembering 50,000 different scents.   Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.   Your body sheds’ about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.   There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.

While awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a light bulb.   Human bones are ounce for ounce stronger than steel, though they are composed of 31 percent water.   The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.   If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles.

Your brain uses 20 percent of the total oxygen and blood in your body.  In a lifetime, your brain’s long-term memory can hold as many as 1quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.  

Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood during your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.  When you take one step you are using up to 200 muscles.    There are over 650 named skeletal muscles in the human body (some figures suggest as many as 840).

Yes, your body is an amazing organism.  It was made by and belongs to God.   Therefore, take good care of it and use it for God’s purposes.”

Dr. Ryan Fraser, Asst. Professor of Counselling, Freed-Hardeman University.  Printed in the Jackson Sun.