You're a man after my own heart!
So, here I am, first poster again. Here’s my two cents, maybe three this time. It ain’t gonna be short, so trust me until I get to the scriptures.
Scientists arrogantly say our bodies only use 3% of the DNA in it. They also say the other 97% is just junk. Part of our identity crisis in how God sees us is because not only do we not believe the word of God, but it keeps us from paying close attention to the nuances He's supplied us. For that reason, I’m going to start with the science of it. The grey matter between our ears is nothing more than a judgement center. It is super busy with analyzing sensory information and making judgment calls about whether we need more adrenaline to combat the stress we have, tells us to go to the bathroom, get some sleep, solve a myriad of mathematical problems we take for granted, keeping our balance, etc. It also spends a lot of time reasoning, which is the last part of the brain to mature. Once it has chewed on something, it makes a decision, even if it’s just to stop the analyzing. Then what?
Once the brain has made a decision, it sends its conclusion to the heart. The heart takes a few moments and decides for itself if it agrees. If not, it may send that back to the brain for more analysis. Then the brain has to decide whether to take up the case again. If the heart agrees, it sends it to every single cell of the body, this decision. The pump in your chest is also a brain. This is a proven medical fact. So what is the heart then?
It is that 97% DNA. We think DNA is static and unchanging, but that is not true. Science has proven that we change our DNA based on many things, environment, food, drink, beliefs, health, etc. This is why the placebo effects work. The mind is uber powerful. Now to the scriptures.
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)
For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
Your heart/mind/body is all the DNA within you. Unforgiveness is a terrible DNA destroyer. 20 years of unforgiveness will manifest physically in your body as a malfunction. All the negative emotions will too. This is also proven (and misunderstood) in the scriptures.
Numbers 14:18 (KJV)
The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation].
What an amazing verse! Time to dissect. "Visiting" is also the same word for
deposit! The experiences of the parents are passed down to the third or fourth generation, all of it, but it's the sins of the fathers that will manifest in their children, if they are not dealt with. How? DNA. Ask an alcoholic about their parents. It's not a guarantee you'll have the same issues, only that you have to deal with that sin you are genetically sensitive to. Scientists have proven this fact by genetically programming via experience fear in mice to three generations! Sin is genetic but it's treatable.
So what is the heart? It is 97% of our DNA! Of which a percentage contains the word of God!
Romans 2:14-15 (KJV)
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
We can increase the amount the word of God is in our DNA, according to the scriptures:
Proverbs 7:1-3 (KJV)
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Ask ANYONE if they've been hurt by something someone said negatively towards them. The lying poem, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" if testament of that. First, it's a lie, they do hurt, and it causes us to bury that hurt deep inside us and after years, it too will manifest. Forgiveness is for the offended, not the offender! (At least until they repent of their deed.) If ANY verse could be understood universally by experience is this one:
Proverbs 18:21 (KJV)
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
I'll stop for now, but this is a monumental subject, which you can see, I absolutely love! That is because it has practical use once understood.