“What reason ye in your hearts?” (Luke v, 22).
Jesus recognizes the heart as the seat of reason and intelligence.
“In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children” (Gen. iii, 16).
“She was found with child of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. i, 18).
“Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit” (Mark v, 8).
“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick” (James v, 15).
Attributing the pains of parturition to a curse, recording the generation of a child without a natural father, ascribing nervous and other disorders to demons, and healing the sick by prayer are Biblical, but not scientific.
“And all the first-born males [of Israel] ... were twenty and two thousand two hundred and three score and thirteen” (Num. iii, 43).
As the population of Israel was about 3,000,000, this would give 130 persons to each family and an average of 128 children to each mother. Faith may accept this, but physiological science rejects it.