Christians know that God created the world intentionally and created Man’s body knowing full well that God Himself would live in a man’s body through the incarnation. This obviously implies that Christ as the creator of all things designed the Human Brain as a fitting dwelling place and temple for Himself. Think about that! Christ had and still has a man’s brain. The One who will judge the Heavens and the Earth is the Man Christ Jesus.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
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31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” ” (Acts 17:31, NKJV)
This is profound and implies that the original sinless human brain was just that, sinless. Sin, over and above the Spiritual matter of guilt and judgment, is just a malfunction of the Brain. Sin is a malfunction of personality in terms of man’s original design in the image of God.
The image of God in the original creation was not going to lie, steal, feel insecure, remain angry too long or be jealous or commit adultery. Imagine that!
This also has strong allusions towards the resurrection of the body, the glorified body and the saving of our souls.
Our souls cannot be separated from our bodies, as our emotions and intellect are intricately woven into the glorious complexity of our bodies. Sela! Ps 139!!
When Christ was preaching the Sermon on the Mount, He was on the one hand just describing who and what we would have been before the fall and certainly who and what we will be after the regeneration.
| The Brain | The Bible |
| Joy is the deepest motivation and need for the nervous system | For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; Romans 14:17
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
| Joy means relationship | I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. 2 John 1:12b |
| Joy is transmitted relationally | These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. Jesus in John 15:11
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Romans 15:13 |
| Joy is best transmitted with our faces | You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your face. Acts 2:28 |
| Brain reality is relational | There is…one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:6
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| A secure attachment relationship is central | I am with you always. Jesus in Matthew 28:20 |
| Quietness and rest are needed to thrive | In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. Isaiah 30:15 |
| Rest/quiet is relational not detached and individualistic | The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 |
| We have limited capacity and must rest when the younger/weaker party needs rest | Then we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1 |
| Rhythm and synchronization form identity | Until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed without and within, fully alive like Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13 The Message |
| Identity grows out of shared-mind states | Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:5
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. |
| Fear states should not last long or be dominant | There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. 1 John 4:18 |