March 22, 2016
A Scientific Explanation of Faith
from PG
I assume that participants of this show are not quite familiar with Dean Hamer called “The God gene”.
According to Dean Hamer VMAT2 gene controls religious groups. I put the post on some atheistic Web site and very soon found that the post is copied in some of Pennsylvania College.
I assume that this gene that Dean Hamer found controlling attachment to religion and some religious group really controls herd instinct. Herd instinct can be stronger or weaker. Herd animals as we are need to create herds to feel more secure. My post is on: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1830.
Participants in this piece of ideas have different ideas to save religions. I believe that herd instinct moves us to different constructions of herds starting with religious, criminal gangs, political parties and more.
One thing tells me that Old Testament gives some interesting explanations. First the name god is not always a single person. God in Hebrew is “Ellokh” (Allah in Arabic) but in many parts it is spelled “Ellokhim” that plural and in reality is Gods but translated by King James. This especially is interesting in XVIII paragraph where three beings came to Abraham to tell him that Sarah will give birth to son. They all three referred as one Lord. Sarah did not believe it but never the less she did give birth to Isaac. I thought at that time that if some Italian doctor was able to impregnate post menopausal woman then assuming that those three Gods were really aliens as well as God and knew how to do it.
I am an immigrant from Soviet Union and at my 60th anniversary I was able to make bar Mitzvah for myself.
This is also due to belonging.
Thank you for your feedback,
I am quite sure that many human scientific explanations abound as to the source of where faith, belief, and the desire to know the things of God originate.
Obviously our website and narratives are coming from a believers’ point of view.
The idea that there is a “god” gene is perfectly in line with the methods that modern man is (and has been) using to explain the things that are unexplainable in our physical world.
I come from a family with a very mixed variety of beliefs and depths of belief; this would either mean that this gene you speak of is lacking, dominate, or perhaps repressed in the various members of my own bloodline.
Between parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, nephews and children I have more than two dozen direct relatives that have these varying belief systems ranging from Christian belief, to universalism, and (yes) atheism.
Maybe some desire another “herd” to be joined to.
My point is this: the science required to disprove the kind of faith (belief) that comes from God (Yahweh) as a gift, fails miserably in the laboratory.
The constant cannot be replicated through tests which have all variables and possible outcomes taken into consideration.
Keep in mind that I cannot, and am not called to address various scientific claims about the person of God. he is a spirit being, and mans’ wisdom falls far short of Gods’ glory!
I again thank you for your feedback, as this is the exact subject matter that we are trying to address; this being the incorrect and incomplete representations about what Gods’ word says and teaches.
These start with source… who wrote the Bible?
Interpretation… who correctly understands the Bible?
And in the end, the most important issue… does God exist?
If God exists, then He must be a specific god; then who is the “True” God?
These scientific discussions are often dealt with through theological explanation that attempts to line-up human scientific knowledge with Gods’ Biblical truth.
Belief is the primary issue!
God never calls us to apply human understanding to his existence, and certainly not for the purpose of attaining greater faith.
Speaking for myself, I do not see this as beneficial to those who “would” believe.
The Bible states clearly (and consistently) that faith is the substance of things unseen. Hebrews: chapter 11
The people that God has desired and has referred to in endearing terms were all people of faith; they “believed God”. Note: They not simply believed in God, they believed in a specific God, and what He has to say about Himself, humanity, and the relationship thereof.
You say at the end of your feedback that you have undertaken the Jewish rite of bar mitzvah at the age of sixty years.
This tradition is a good example of traditional teachings and ideas overriding Gods’ intended ordinances for mankind;
in this case for the people of Israel.
Please do not take this harshly; as a Jew (even a secular Jew) you should know that God (Yahweh) is not the same as (Allah) the god of Islam.
The purpose of these articles is to touch the hearts of the readers in a way that kindles an ember which already exists… and this too is a gift of God!
The ember must be there in order for God to do His work in the human heart, no matter how small the spark may be.
If the light of Gods’ word is unwelcome, or cannot find a place to shine do to a hard hearted attitude, there is no starting point from which God will do His work (of salvation).
In the end the concept of faith (belief) will continue to be challenged by the ideas of men, and this foretold by God himself as an act of rebellion by those created against the one who created them.
This is the pride of human self deification that leads to separation from our heavenly Father.