The Old and New Testaments of the Bible are in your Bloodstreams and not in the pages of the book𓂀

5 min readJan 26, 2023

I am fully aware that the book you are holding is referred to as the “holy Bible” and is said to have been penned some thousands of years ago. I can assure you that the perfect Bible is in your bloodstream, not the one you’re holding.

Hebrews 8:13. In that he saith. A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The circulatory system, which is a vast network of blood vessels, acts both as a delivery and waste removal system for the body.

There are two types of blood circulation: pulmonary and systemic.

**Pulmonary and systemic circulation Image by** **𝑴𝒖𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒊 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒖𝒔**

The pulmonary circulation helps the body breathe externally, by moving blood between the heart and lungs so that carbon dioxide from the body’s tissues can be exchanged for oxygen.

Systemic circulation helps the body breathe internally by moving blood between the heart and the rest of the body to supply oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and other waste substances that the body doesn’t need.

The heart powers both types of circulation.

Let’s zoom in a little more so that it’s evident!

Because pulmonary circulation involves the exchange of gases during external respiration, let’s call it the “New Testament.”

Let’s also call the systemic circulation the “Old Testament,” because it involves the exchange of gases during internal respiration.

Why do I think of the “Old Testament” as having to do with systemic circulation and the “New Testament” as having to do with pulmonary circulation?

It is extremely easy. Let me start with the “New Testament,” or the pulmonary circulation. The blood that has been used by the body’s tissues is now depleted of oxygen.

They need to be renewed or powered up again. So, in the pulmonary loop, the oxygen-depleted blood leaves the right ventricle of the heart and enters the lungs. There, carbon dioxide is expelled, and oxygen is absorbed.

When oxygen, personified as “Christ,” gets into the blood, it changes deoxygenated blood, or “the people,” into oxygenated, or “new” blood.

The new blood then travels through venules from the capillary beds to the pulmonary veins.
The pulmonary veins carry blood to the left atrium of the heart, which is where systemic circulation, or the “New Testament,” ends.

Systemic circulation begins in the left ventricle of the heart, when new blood is pumped from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta, the largest artery or “high priest” in the “Old Testament.”

The new blood moves from the aorta, through the systemic arteries, and then to the arterioles and capillary beds that supply the body tissues.

At this point, oxygen and other nutrients from the red blood cells are released into the body tissues, and at the same time, carbon dioxide and other waste substances from the body tissues are picked up by the red blood cells.

The blood is now old or depleted of oxygen. The old blood then travels from the capillary beds into the systemic veins via venules.

The systemic veins carry blood to the inferior and superior vena cava, which are the largest veins in the body.

The old blood is carried via the vena cava to the right atrium of the heart, where the systemic circulation ends.

It is a never-ending cycle. It keeps changing from old to new in the “New Testament” and from new to old in the “Old Testament.” They are happening at the same time in your heart right now. Each heartbeat causes both testaments to happen.

Blood circulation starts when the heart relaxes. The blood flows from both atria (the upper two chambers of the heart) into the ventricles (the lower two chambers), which then expand.

The following phase is called the ejection period, which is when both ventricles pump blood into the large arteries.

“And he said unto them, this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many.” Mark 14:24.

Presumably, you are still perplexed when you consider Jesus to be a real person who ever lived on our planet. Believe me, this is merely a metaphoric depiction.

All of the Bible's personal pronouns are just ways to give inanimate things personality traits.

The difference between the “New and Old Testaments” is the blood contained in the interchangeable blood vessels or the priesthood.

In the pulmonary circuit, or New Testament, the veins, or “high priest,” move towards the heart carrying oxygenated, or new, blood. while the pulmonary arteries are moving away from the heart, carrying deoxygenated or old blood.

In systemic circulation, or the “Old Testament,” the opposite is true: veins carry deoxygenated or old blood and move toward the heart, while arteries carry oxygenated or new blood and move away from the heart.

So, the “Old and New Testaments” of the Bible are not, in reality, the sixty-six books of the holy Bible, but rather your cardiovascular systems.

This specific article may leave you rather bewildered. I do not aim to confuse you. Read a couple more of my blog’s posts for clarification. You can also find the visualization for this article on my YouTube channel.

Read the following verses from the Bible carefully.

Heb 9:11–28

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