What Are You Made Of?

They told me when I was young that girls were made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. This seemed right to me back then and still does today. I was also told told that boys were made of spiders, snails and puppy dog tails (the puppy dog tail part sill is pretty freaky to tell a small child) . But, I have been studying Genesis 2:4-17 for Sunday Morning sermon and came across what we are supposedly made out of.

The physical makeup of the human body is 58 lbs. oxygen, 50 qts. Water, 2 ounces salt, 31 lbs. calcium, 24lbs. carbon, Some chlorine, phosphorus, fat, iron, sulfur and glycerin.

He then noted that having the ingredients alone is not enough. Instructions are needed. But, even if we had the instructions the complexity of the details of such an undertaking would make it impossible for one human being to make another human being. He said that

A mere piece of skin the size of a postage stamp requires three million cells; a yard of blood vessels, four yards of nerves; one hundred sweat glands, fifteen oil glands, and twenty-five nerve endings.

Dr. Mayo of the Mayo Clinic has a humorous way of putting it.

He said, "you would need enough potassium for one shot of a toy pistol, enough fat for seven bars of soap, enough iron for one large nail, enough sulfur to delouse a dog, enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop, enough magnesia for one dose of medicine, and enough phosphorous for a few boxes of matches. The total amount of all these items would not fill more than a couple of grocery sacks.

I also found this more scientific and detailed breakdown as well.

Oxygen	65%		Sulfur	0.3
Carbon	18.5		Sodium	0.2
Hydrogen	9.5		Chlorine	0.2
Nitrogen	3.2		Magnesium	0.1
Calcium	1.5		Iodine	0.1
Phosphorous	1.0		Iron	0.1
Potassium	0.4		Everything else	0.1

“Everything else” is aluminum, boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorine, manganese, molydenum, selenium, silicon, tin, vanadium, and zinc.

See, my point is that we are not worth much with God. Jesus said in John 15:5 "apart from me you can do nothing!" But, with Jesus says in John 10:10 "I have come that you may have life and life abundantly!"

Glad that our lives are more than chemical processes, Pastor Phillip