A Cure for Leprosy?

In the Old Testament, there is a procedure given for the 
priests to cleanse a man of leprosy. The procedure given is
essentially that some sacrifice is made, and the blood is
mixed with hyssop and scarlet on cedar wood over water. The
mixture is then sprinkled and dabbed on the man with leprosy
and days later, he's either cured or not. You can read the
procedure in Leviticus 14.

The problem is, nothing said there directly cures leprosy in
and of itself. So other than by an act of God curing the man,
it looks like a pointless thing to do. As such, some people 
tend to complain that the procedure is ineffective.

Is it?

When you check what's said in Leviticus 14, what you find is,
they were told to check the house as well, not just the man.
The priest would go into the house looking for red or green
discolorations in the lower portion of the house. If it was,
he knew that the house was unclean... for leprosy?

No, it wasn't leprosy being cleared out, it was fungi.

When you check the translation, you find that the term used
for leprosy, also allows for malignant skin diseases, such
as fungi related types... of which, in 2004, it was reported
that hyssop is VERY effective at killing fungi.

This is another instance where the translators, not knowing
what we know now, or having access to the priests of the day,
translated the term to a specific skin disease, rather than
a more generic term that would have been more obvious to most
readers.

It's clear that the scriptures were giving a procedure from
God, for how to kill fungi, not leprosy. God knew it thousands
of years ago, told them what to do, and what he told them,
works fine to remove the fungi. He also said that if it wasn't
removed, that they should tear down the house, toss away the
materials, and rebuild it with new materials. At the time and
with what they had to work with, those procedures given, were 
good things for them to do. 

God made it all, Jesus died for our sins.

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