Where art thou, Adam? Grow Trees of Righteousness

“Horrific!”  This is how President Trump described the shooting of Charlie Kirk.   

Godless heathens are going to act like Godless heathens.  Study of the Bible will show that Godless heathens do not have the same heart, spirit and will of a born-again Christian who is seeking after the heart, Spirit and will of God. 

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a 30-year neuroscientist and is also a devout Christian.  She has been understanding and publishing her findings concerning neuroscience and the Bible and it is really quiet amazing what she has found.  Based upon the Scriptures, man is made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26, 27 and 9:6).  Dr. Leaf points out that the Bible also says that God doesn’t have “love,” but instead “God is love” (I John 4:8,16).  Dr. Leaf concludes that man is made in the image of God, and since God is love, man was made in the image of “love.”  

Studying neuroscience Dr. Leaf has found that a thought is a dendrite growing on a neuron in your brain.  The dendrite literally looks like a tree.  She has found that the proteins, chemicals and the way the brain folds are harmonious around thoughts of “love,” but around thoughts of “hate” the structure of the dendrite is different, growing wrong proteins and chemicals, and the brain literally folds differently, causing electrochemical chaos.  She says that is exactly what the Bible says in James chapter 3 and verse 16, which says, “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”  

Meditating upon evil thoughts, the dendrites can become fixed and literally develop a pathway of thought that is hardwired into your brain.  These evil thoughts generate wrong proteins, wrong chemical generation, and can affect every cell in your body, causing sickness and disease.   

She points out that Jesus says that the way you “take a thought,” is that you say it (Matthew 6:31) and it will burn like a fire as you continue telling the tale (Proverbs 26:20) until the person becomes a “natural brute beast, made to be taken and destroyed” (II Peter 2:12).  Note that God did not make them this way, but it is what they have made of themselves, by what they said, what thoughts they fed, until finally their actions bore destructive fruit. 

The Dr. Leaf points out that all this can change with thoughts of “love” in line with the Scriptures, for this is how man was designed.  Wrong chemical generation, wrong proteins, pathways of warped dendrites, and even wrong folds in the brain can heal through meditating upon love, forgiveness and the Word of God. 

Charlie Kirk had these same revelations, maybe not about neuroscience, but about the power of forgiveness.   

Utah Governor Spencer said, “These are the words that have helped me, Charlie said, ‘When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.”  He said, “The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.  Welcome without judgment, love without condition, forgive without limit.’  He said, ‘Always forgive your enemies.  Nothing annoys them so much.’  A few months ago, I referenced this last night, Charlie posted to social media, “When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded.  Turn off your phone, read Scripture, spend time with friends, and remember, internet fury is not real life.  It’s going to be okay.’  He again said, ‘When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to commit violence.’  He said, ‘What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable agreement.  Being able to have reasonable agreement where violence is not an option.’” 

Dr. Leaf pointed out that the Scriptures speaks to “growing trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified” (Isaiah 61:3).  She believes that these trees of righteousness are thoughts, they are ways of thinking, they are dendrites hard wired into your brain because that is the way you were designed and they are in harmony with the Words of the Designer, who is God.   

Dr. Leaf also asked the question, “How do you measure love?  How do you measure hate?”  You cannot measure these with a thermometer or using a test tube.  She says these interactions are quantum mechanical in nature.  Quantum mechanics is speaking to how tiny packets of energy interact.  She points out that one electron on one side of an atom can sense another electron on the other side of the atom, even though on the atomic scale they are separated by a huge distance, and this also applies to atoms, but it would also apply to molecules, and it would also apply to cells, and it would also apply to tissue, and it would also apply to our brains where trillions of these interactions are occurring all the time at quantum speeds, as much as 10,000 times the speed of light.  This interaction between particles is called, “entanglement theory” where even though these particles are separated by a huge atomic distance, they are “entangled” together.  Albert Einstein called this, “spooky action at a distance”.  Dr. Leaf in her studies and research said there is an energy that people generate that others can sense.  This can be positive or negative, but this also explains why someone can know someone else has a need, even before they interact.  It is because — they are quantum mechanically “entangled”.   

Dr. Leaf says that the reason scientists pushed quantum mechanics to the side 50-75 years ago and chose instead to view the world with classical physics, is that when they were studying quantum mechanics they realized — that they were studying God.  Today science has realized that to make the next big step in science, you are going to have to study quantum mechanics, which is why quantum mechanical computers are being discussed and artificial intelligence.   

She stated that through “entanglement” is how God is involved in our lives.  That is why you can literally sense the presence of the LORD at times and that is what was lost with the original sin, now requiring men to be “born-again.”  When Adam chose to sin, it broke that entanglement with God and Adam now had the mixture of both good and evil in his heart, spirit and will.  The book of Genesis says that God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before sin (Genesis 3:8,9), but after sin we find God calling out to Adam, “Where art thou [Adam]?”  God knew physically where Adam and Eve were, but God meant, “Where are you in your relationship with Me?” 

All the hate filled rhetoric surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk does shine light on the reality of what Selwyn Duke stated when he said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those that speak it.”  

Maybe people with all this hate filled rhetoric need to hear the voice of God calling to them asking, “Where art thou, Adam?”