Life Matters, January 12, 2022
Many years have passed since I questioned the Holy Bible’s validity as the unadulterated Word of God. It is from the Word of God that we learn who God is and how we are to live. I believe the versions translated from the Textus Receptus (Received Text), this includes the original King James Version, which I have and use, to be the most accurate translation. When choosing a translation of the Bible, there is a need to be circumspect and discerning, especially in past decades, as new versions are being offered that have been tweaked in an attempt to be more relevant to the present culture or to support the doctrines of certain groups. We need to apply spiritual-minded brains.
Upon coming out of a 3-week long coma, in October of 2011, I was gripped with a fascination concerning the human brain. The x-ray of my brain (I now have visual proof there is one!) shows two “shearings,” a word used to describe brain trauma when the brain is jarred to such an extent that portions of it slide into a slightly offset position. These offsets show on the x-ray and are the reason I had to re-learn basic motor-skills. The neurologist on the job sat on the edge of my bed one day and we talked. We talked about brain exercise that would aid healing, we talked about involuntary movements, about voluntary movements, about why my motor-skills were interrupted, why brain scans won’t show if I had lost anything else, etc. Then I had a question he didn’t have a neurological answer for. During my time in a coma, the material realm here (except for hearing conversations between people around my bed) had faded from my consciousness, while an awareness of eternity and the spirit realm increased in clarity and reality. The reality of spiritual life became more real to me than the physical life here. So I had a question; “How is it,” I asked, “that we have a brain that cannot only think, but can also reason, study eternal truths, come to beliefs about them, make decisions, etc., and yet is physical, will cease to function and will decay with the rest of the body? It seems our brain has an eternal mind. What is the connection between our eternal minds and our brains?”
“Emanuel,” said Dr. Peter, the neurologist, “the brain is a fascinating organ and we know a lot more about the brain than we ever have before. But,“ he continued, “the more we know about the brain, the more we know that we don’t know. We know there is an eternal mind beyond or apart from the brain and we know there is a connection between them, but it cannot be neurologically explained, it must be spiritually understood.” I was fascinated at his knowledge and insight and said, “Thank you, Dr. Peter, well said.” And I try to understand, but can’t say that I do. Someday we shall know, even as also we are known. (I Corinthians 13:12)
Dr. Ben Carson is another fascinating neurologist. Neurosurgeon, to be more precise. To be even more precise, Dr. Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, in the top echelon of his field. Let us hear what Dr. Carson has to say about our brainy brains. “When I look at the human brain, I’m still in awe of it…the human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second…Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?”
All of us are accountable to the truth that we know. Charles Darwin did not have the advanced scientific knowledge that we have today. We now know that life evolving from the debris of a Big Bang—or from a primordial soup—is a mathematical impossibility. No Evolutionist has ever show it to be possible, even with a millions-of-years cushion. Our brains instantly die without the continual blood flow being pumped by our heart and the oxygen the blood picks up in the lungs. Conversely, no vital organs can function without impulses from the brain. We now know that to be an Evolutionist takes a commitment to a belief system that the world as we know it happened without being created by Almighty God. We may call such a commitment religious, but not science. The confusion about the Theory of Evolution, then, is that while it is religious in construct, it remains insistent that it is, in fact, “scientific discovery.”
Life Matters! To be continued…