No one hundred events combined have impacted humanity like the event we celebrate at this time each year. While many take joy in a gift from God that started our calendar and changed how millions worship, if you look at things from a medical perspective, you have to sit back and wonder if God really didn’t make quite a blunder. I mean, 2000 years ago? How could God even consider a pregnancy at that time? Think about it. There was literally zero medical technology. This was certainly very risky and inconvenient for all parties involved.

First of all, through the entire nine months, not once was Mary’s blood tested to make sure her body was even fit to bear a child. Never mind the child. In addition, there were no exams to make sure things were coming along medically right. In such a prehistoric era, there was no high-frequency electric waves available to monitor the fetal heart rate or any ultrasonic waves to check and make sure that He was a he and that the baby was developing normally. And what about amniocentesis? Back then they didn’t even have needles to suck out some of the fluid in the womb to check for the proper chromosomal development. What was God thinking?

There were no doctor’s offices, no hospitals, and no HMOs. Not only was this a very unsafe situation, but how was Joseph suppose to even afford it! Why did the inn keeper say there was “No room?” Can you say, “No dinero.”

Talk about perilous, what if labor needed to be induced? What if there needed to be an emergency C-section? And without forceps or vacuum extraction, what if Jesus could not even have gotten out? Then where would we be? No toys, no reindeer, no fruit cake–nada, niet! In fact, with no epidurals or heavy narcotics available, how in heaven was Mary expected to even endure this event? You bet she was a saint.

From a medical perspective, should we even be looking at this as a season for merriment? No. Instead, we should be questioning God’s decision-making ability and reflecting on how He could have risked the tiny savior’s life this way. They had the baby in a barn… before antibiotics were even invented! Not to mention that after the delivery there was no erythromycin for His eyes to stop Him from going blind just in case Mary somehow had syphilis, no vitamin K shots for his poorly constructed blood stream, and good Lord, no vaccinations! They were so behind then. Clearly, now would have been a much smarter time for all of this to happen. Or maybe we need to start rethinking some things:

• FACT:Using a medical perspective, the United States has the highest infant death rate and the highest neonatal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world.
• FACT: With medical perspective, the U.S. is last in the world for potential life lost.
• FACT:With medical perspective, the U.S. is second to last in the world for healthy longevity.

there really is a major problem. People are hurting and suffering like never before. The bottom line is, the way to medical problems is medical thinking.

As the calendar rolls over once more to the next year, I believe it’s time to reconsider what the man who literally split the calendar had in mind at His coming in relation to our bodies and our thinking. Maybe another reason for the birth of Jesus at that time and place is as a model of faith in the natural processes of God and trust in the power of the Body by God.

To maximize the natural capacity of your body and its ability to look well and heal itself, from a non-medical perspective, look into the next Extreme Makeover–God’s Way Program coming January 23rd to a location near you!