THOREAU, Walden Pond, Discernment, Transcendentalism

Nature's Experiment conducted at Walden Pond, Thoreau's Eden, Defined Henry David Thoreau’s

Neurotheological Christian Discernment i.e. Scientifically Educated Spirituality,
and Emboldened his Transcendentalism.

“The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges” (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 264). “Spiritual treatises, composed between about 800 and 400 B.C., The Upanishads, which translates to “The Lessons,” gave eloquent expression to the essential theme that everything, all nature, including human beings, is infused with a spirit of divinity, expressive of a creative energy that is not far and inaccessible, but just under the surface: “Nearest to all things,” Thoreau wrote, “is that power which fashions their being” (Ibid.: 119).

"And Thoreau’s Walden expressed a conviction that, since this divine creative impulse is immanent in all nature, deep participation and union with the natural world puts a person in accord with this life sustaining power. Living close to nature provides an essential experience of being. Living intimately with processes of the natural world attunes a person to his or her own true nature.

"Thoreau, along with other “Transcendental” writers, (sometimes referred to as the “Boston Brahmans”) valued direct and immediate experience over traditional religious doctrine and received truths. Like the Humanistic therapies that would eventually follow and reify the idea, they esteemed sensitivity to, and trust in, one's own inner intimations, especially when cultivated in what Emerson referred to as the "cathedral of nature" (Emerson, 1834/1995). Part of the uniqueness of Walden is Thoreau’s deft synthesis of the soaring universal themes of Indian sacred literature with his particular and intimate impressions of nature on the banks of Walden Pond.

"With Thoreau, the inward looking and contemplative mystical tradition of the East is translated through a Yankee psyche that has rejected the popular religious doctrines of his own culture and is independent of any obligation to embrace any constraining practices of another. Unfettered by dogmas imposed by religious leaders or customs made obligatory by social sanctions,

"Thoreau’s primary reverence was for the spirit he sensed moving in a natural landscape that was still relatively unspoiled. In Walden, Thoreau joyfully recounted how living deeply with nature attuned him to his own deepest self, and the transcendental writers would have agreed with Carl Jung's later observations that religion can often get in the way of one having a spiritual experience (Jung, 1989).

"For Thoreau, “spiritual” meant being fully awake and responsive to the flow of life contained in the present moment, especially as seen in nature, and in this sense, he advised that one need not look
beyond one's own purview, both physically and psychologically, for guidance on how to live fully and deeply. Although he maintained contact with the nearby town of Concord, like a sage of the East, Thoreau also retreated to the forest to cultivate his solitude. In marked contrast to the New England Protestant ethic of his time and place that portrayed nature in conflict with the spirit, Thoreau wrote of their fundamental oneness. “I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good” (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 187).

"Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us (Thoreau, 1992)

"His was not a philosophy of exile, of being cast out and longing to return to the garden. Thoreau was already in the garden, literally and figuratively. In the Garden of Eden myth, God walks in the cool evening, present and available, man and woman do not seem aware of their differences and are unashamed, the world is not broken into good and evil, light and dark, pain and joy, and all nature is whole and unified. That changes quickly with the introduction of sin into the story; the world shatters and God becomes transcendent and difficult to react.

"Perhaps on that Spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up (from winter ice) in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall...and had obtained a patent of heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world and a distiller of celestial dews (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 277).

"In The Upanishads, the concepts of creation, nature, divinity, and the spirit life of humans are quite different than the cosmos communicated by the Near East Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition. In the dominant Christian tradition that surrounded Thoreau in nineteenth century New England, God is wholly transcendent, apart, and over nature. In the West, religion and religious practice, as the mythologist Joseph Campbell (2003) observed, serves as the method by which the individual can have a relationship to an otherwise inaccessible and transcendent creator. This God is not identified with his physical creation but, rather, rules over it. This concept of the cosmos informs, in turn, the idea of “man over nature,” with the implication that nature is something to be dominated and controlled. Taken to its logical extreme, a de-sanctified nature may be exploited without giving offense to the order of the universe.

"The immanent divinity celebrated in Walden is that each discrete thing is an expression of the universal creative force that pervades all, each part of nature is infused, overflowing, with the creative energy that gives rise to it. God is both over and in nature. Nature is sacred.
Concerning whom it is said: He is seen in nature in the wonder of a flash of lightening. He comes to the soul in a flash of vision” (The Upanishads, 1965: 53). And in Walden, we find the following: “Next to us the grandest laws are continually being executed. Next to us is not the workman we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are” (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 119).

"Thoreau had made his breakthrough. In the language Thoreau had made his breakthrough. In the language of the Bhagavad Gita, he saw all nature as an expression of a consciousness that exists in various levels in nature and pervades all forms. Not only nature, but also each person is identified with divinity, and Thoreau had no qualms about admonishing his readers to wake up to that awareness. The big mystic realization of The Upanishads is to truly know, to experience, that the god one seeks is oneself. Not, of course, the puny personality of the individual ego, but the Self (Atman) that is identified with the ground of being from which it arises. This Self is the channel, the hollow reed through which blows the celestial music that Thoreau said he heard sweeping over the hills. This realization is expressed in The Upanishads as the statement: "Thou art That"—you are a manifestation of the indestructible force that gives rise to all things; divine

"As a reframing of the creation myth that dominates Western cosmology, we might say from the Upanishadic perspective that the universe precipitated consciousness—the capacity to look out upon itself through our own eyes. It is an understatement to say that this would have been a foreign concept to most of Thoreau’s neighbors, with the exception of his “Transcendentalist” friends. Indeed, many would have considered it blasphemous to identify oneself with divinity, especially one divorced from comforting anthropomorphic attributes. But Thoreau certainly read and embraced the concepts expressed in the following in The Upanishads, and it echoes throughout Walden: “I will now speak to you of the mystery of the eternal Brahman...the Spirit of Light, who in truth is called Immortal. All the worlds rest on that Spirit....There is one Ruler, the Spirit that is in all things, who transforms his own form into many” (The Upanishads, 1965: 49).

"In a letter to his friend H. G. O. Blake, Thoreau wrote about his meditations and the influence of his readings of The Upanishads: Free in this world as the birds in the air, disengaged from every kind of chains, those who practice yoga gather in Brahma the certain fruits of their works. Depend upon it that, rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully. The yogi, absorbed in contemplation, contributes in his degree to creation; he breathes a divine perfume, he hears wonderful things.... To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogi (Miller, 1986: 60).

"Yet, now it is in the mirror of Thoreau’s prose and thought that we most desire to see ourselves reflected and, although his genius was “only contemplative,” it is Thoreau’s being “good for something” that has exerted enormous influence in the world. In The Upanishads, acts of contemplation and deliberate choice accrue into waves of influence that move across time. When Thoreau refused to pay a tax that supported slavery and violent American military action in Mexico, he was arrested and spent a night in jail before friends, without his blessing, paid the tax on his behalf. He refused the next year and they paid it again. Out of this experience came his essay “Civil Disobedience” (Rosenwald, 2006). Remaining true to one’s own spirit in the society of others was the fruit of contemplation that Thoreau brought with him out of the woods.

"Thoreau wrote that through his love of the Bhagavad Gita that the sacred waters of the Ganges fed Walden Pond, but there was a return tributary as well, for Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged Thoreau’s Walden and Civil Disobedience as influential in his ideas of non-violent resistance, as did Martin Luther King. The great conservationist John Muir acknowledged his debt to Thoreau’s vision of nature as a divine poem, and infused his own writings with the theme that wilderness is sacred. Walden became a classic of American literature, still inspiring artists and contemporary writers like E. B. White, Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and poets like Wendell Berry.

III. Walden as a Wellspring for Well-Being
{{{ Discernment- mbmsrmd}}} : In particular, Walden endures as a touchstone for anyone in the process of evaluating his or her life and asking the question: Am I living significantly? Thoreau after achieving great realization, does not just abandon the world for the bliss of ultimate union, but rather returns from the forest to the world of others to share what was realized in contemplation.

At the same time, Thoreau offered a sage’s perspective on being detached from one’s works and thoughts that would sound familiar to any student of mindfulness meditation: “By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent” (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 120).

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"All mass and energy in our Universe are Created by our real God. All mass (M) and energy (E) in our Universe can be described by Science. Einstein's Theory of relativity is E = mc².

"Albert Einstein said Energy does not die and cannot be destroyed. Energy can only converted from one form of energy to another. Hence, Energy is infinite. Energy is eternity and foreverness.

"Our real God created M + E (relic Higgs boson E + Fermion M). Scientific Information describes M + E (Higgs boson descendant Energy Felds + Fermion descendant Mass, Matter and Material Objects)

Only our real Creator knows His own Image, which is comprised, at least in large part, by Scientific Truth, Knowledge and Information. Our real Creator is Scientific Truth, Knowledge and Information, that’s What (a part of) Our God Might Be.

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In May of 1862, at the age of 44, Thoreau lay dying. A few years before, his chronic tuberculosis had become aggravated by bronchitis contracted while he was out counting the rings of tree stumps during a late evening rainstorm, which somehow seems an appropriate and fitting cause of his death. Knowing the end was near, his Aunt Louisa inquired whether he had made his peace with God. Thoreau replied, “I did not know that we had ever quarreled.” His friends were struck by the serenity with which he welcomed death. His last words were...... “Now comes good sailing.

Walden asserted that to live as “deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails,” is also to participate honestly in the present moment with one's fellow human beings (Thoreau, 1854/1992: 86). For Thoreau, nature expresses pure being; it has no superficialities, it both mirrors and is divine and is therefore the model for what is essential for significance in human relations; to be in true participation, cutting through convention and manners.

Because nature is never superficial, Thoreau thought, neither should be human intercourse. Indeed, one complaint Thoreau had about his hand-hewn house was that it was not large enough to contain the expansiveness of shared thought and the greatness of the conversation when he welcomed visitors. “I would gladly tell all I know, and never paint ‘No Admittance’ on my gate”(Ibid.: 15).

In the century and a half since raising those humble walls, he has welcomed millions.At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed, and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature (Ibid.: 281)

Today, therapists are beginning to realize how the myth of the isolated mind shapes a cultural narrative that estranges persons from each other, and that “We can never have enough of nature.” They have rediscovered the psychological and spiritual benefits of immersion in the natural world and now prescribe this experience to reduce anxiety, alleviate stress, and promote personal well-being (Dolgin, 2014, Keniger, et al., 2013, Maller, 2009).

However, Walden is both an eloquent ode and a soulful prayer to nature, a mingling of the waters of the Ganges and Walden Pond—and brings into harmony insights into the human condition that both the East and West have offered. It reminds us that going into the woods can be much more than merely a refreshing hike or a relaxing excursion to savor the wonders of the natural world—it can be a mindful journey into the eternal mystery of the present and into the sacred, eternal depths of the self that is one with nature.

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[Master Reference: NATURE’S SAGE: THE INFLUENCE OF SACRED INDIAN LITERATURE IN HENRY DAVID THOREAU’S WALDEN Eric Cowan and Lennis G. Echterling, Dr. ERIC COWAN, Professor & Psy.D. and Dr. LENNIS G. ECHTERLING, Professor & Ph.D. are both clinical psychologists and psychotherapists in the Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. E-mail: cowanwe@jmu.edu. Journal of East-West Thought, Cowan pp 55-69 pdf]

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SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION DOES NOT CONTRADICT SCIENCE EDUCATION

Sociological classification of all the Religious movements, Religions, Sects, Denominations and Cults around the world is extremely difficult, because they have so many disagreements. [Sociological Classifications of Religious Movements, The Spiritual Life 2020]

"Both cosmic inflation and the Big Bang Universe formation have been continually challenged by astronomers and astrophysicists, but their alternatives have fallen away each time their are new, critical observations.

Even 2020 Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose years ago published an alternative, Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, but did not succeed and did match the inflationary Big Bang Universe formation success.[No Evidence Of A ‘Universe Before The Big Bang’, Ethan Siegel Oct 15, 2020, Medium].

Dr. Penrose has since joined-in the Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose ORCH OR Theory Of Consciousness, which implicates the Big Bang Theory Universe formation, which has been peer-reviewed and well accepted by many scientists around the world.

With so many disagreements among Religious groups and among Physics groups, how is it that most religions and their religious followers and nonreligious people, atheists and agnostics and Physicists (indeed an odd allegiance and coalition), campaign-against and disparage reputable Science and some facets of reputable Medicine?

With so many disagreements among Religious groups and among Physics groups, how is it that most deny that our God of Truth is both a Scientist and Spiritual Creator and, even though they have no alternative explanation, deny the Science of His Divine Intelligent Design Creation with all the Universe Creation Information, Codes, Constants, Rules and Laws of Nature Utilized?

How is it most religions and their congregations and constituents are not reconciled with Science and Medicine and argue with fact-based Scientific Semantics, Statements, Educations and Explanations?

The answers appears to be that most Religions and their religious followers are fascinated-with and believe-in their emotional, superstitious, supernatural, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, antiquated and primitive ministry, teachings and principles, that most religions and their religious followers financially sponsor.

Most religious followers appear to be stuck on the elementary 'Milk'-rung of religious education ladder which is taught to beginners for orientation. Many fail to progress to the Discernment-rung of the religious education ladder for many reasons. 2 reasons are that regulars study and work are required.

As instrumentation improves and, if life on Earth survives long enough, Science will eventually prove Everything. For example, a recent question proves the point: "Did Quantum Physics and esteemed, prestigious Scientists and Doctors recently prove there is really life after death? And prove a quantum code for all living beings? It’s a thought-provoking subject!" [Quantum Physics May Have Proved There Is Life After Death And There Is A Quantum Code For All Living Beings, Cynthia McKanzie, MessageToEagle.com]

Highly esteemed Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi are examples of Discernment and Scientificated Spirituality and teaching Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Scientifically Literate Christian and Mahatma Gandhi was a Scientifically Literate ‘Religious Pluralist’. Gandhi followed and studied many different religions.

2 legendary, extremely well-educated, religious and pious men, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), and countless others were knowledgeable-in and reconciled-with Science, Medicine, Cosmology and Human Interconnectedness with the entire Universe.

The education of King and Gandhi and Gandhi’s influence on King influenced the following often quoted statement by King: "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.” [Martin Luther King, Jr. from "A Christmas Sermon on Peace," 1967]

People are challenged to name ‘some-thing’ that Scientific and Medical details cannot explain. So why all the consternation? Take a moment and Think about it.

Human Spiritual and Physical Wellbeing (aka ‘Cleanliness’) is next to Godliness.

https:www.faithandhealthconnection.org/the_connection/spirit-soul-and-body/

"Transcendentalism was one of the 1st breaks with the elementary 'Milk'-rung of religious education ladder. Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early 19th century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important Transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Theodore Parker.

Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the Transcendentalists operated with the sense that this was a new era after migration of puritans from England to New England America.

"They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each person find, in Emerson’s words, “an original relation to the universe” (O, 3). Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing. By the 1840s they, along with other Transcendentalists, were engaged in the social experiments of Concord, Ma, Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden; and by the 1850s engaged in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery. [First published Thu Feb 6, 2003; substantive revision Fri Aug 30, 2019, Goodman, Russell, "Transcendentalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/transcendentalism/]

Transcendentalism is the conscious realization of th Interconnection with God and the ‘Oversoul’, (the Holy Spirit) Interconnectedness, Described With Religious / Spiritual statements and Scientific / Medical statements.

Prayer, spiritual, religious, meditation and their practices are conscious hopeful Interconnections with God and the ‘Oversoul’, (the Holy Spirit) Interconnectedness, Described With Religious / Spiritual statements and Scientific / Medical statements. [The Over-Soul - Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays, 1996-2021 EmersonCentral.com.]

Heavenly-Designed Religious / Spiritual and Heavenly-Designed Scientific / Medical Practices and Educations are Symbiotic and mutually beneficial components of Human Spiritual and Physical Wellbeing, know biblically as God’s Holy Temple in Humans on Earth.

Holy Spirit Energies are Vectors for God’s Action Plans, metaphorically the Left Hand of God. Gods Plan and rules metaphorically being the Right Hand of God

and the Vectors are Special Divine intelligent Design Energy Vectors (SDIDEV)
for transmission of Quantum Reduced, or ‘Ringed-Down’, Scale Invariant Energy States,
Designed Specifically to Divinely Interconnect every Creation in the Universe from the Higgs Boson Energy Particle states when our Universe began aka ‘God Particles’ by Discerned Scientifically Educated Believers,
and Special Energy Vectors for Interconnection of every Creation throughout our Universe, Galaxies, Solar System, Earth, Human Life, and the Human Soul
and Special ‘Ringed-Down’ Energy Vectors (similar to ORCH OR Reduction) are Scale Invariant, (least-sized Quantumness) for Divine Computational Processes,
but Non-Computational when limited by Human capability
and a ‘Mathematical Paradox Lost’ for some biased Scientists.

“Discernment is the responsibility of every Christian” [1 Thessalonians 5:21-22]

Discernment is the ability to Believe and, when capable, Practice a person's Belief beyond fundamental elementary Bible School Instruction that symbolically teaches supernatural and emotional metaphors for emphasis that sometimes fears persons to Believe.
“I gave you milk, (fundamental biblical instructions) not solid food, (Discernment) for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” [1 Corinthians 3:2]
“Nothing in the application of Religious / Spiritual statements and education inhibits, invalidates or contradicts the application of a Scientific / Medical statements and education,”
Spiritual instruction does not contradict Scientific / Medical statements and education nor the converse.
because both Religious / Spiritual and Scientific / Medical statements and educations have remarkably different, independent fixed languages and vocabularies
and are derived from 2 remarkably different Scientific / Medical Practices and Educations [JSTOR www.jstor.org by DH Mellor · ‎1974)
Yet, Heavenly-Designed Religious / Spiritual and Scientific / Medical Medical Practices and Educations are Symbiotic and mutually beneficial components of God’s Holy Temple of Spiritual and Physical Wellbeing in Humans.
· “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” [1 Corinthians 6:19] [and 1 Corinthians 3:16]

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Called to Preach the Gospel, Transcendentalism Perspective

‘Called to Preach the Gospel from a Transcendentalism Perspective’

‘Called to Preach the Gospel from a Transcendentalism Perspective’ sounds much akin to the ‘Mindful Interconnectedness of the ‘Oversoul’, God, the Universe, Nature with Scientific Facts, Evidence and Truth’. [Emerson] and Scientifically Educated, Literate Christianity devoid of supernatural, superstition, unnaturalism and raw overwrought emotion and feared into belief in God. [Thomas Jefferson]

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The questions posed: What are the underpinnings for the religion in Kentucky, that the United Baptists and the Wheeler family practiced, who came as Puritans in 1636 to Colonial New England and migrated from Concord MA, and established the Concord Church and Concord KY in 1805? Was Transcendentalism their predecessor ?

The United Baptist Church in Eastern Kentucky was extremely Puritanical. Men and women sat on opposite sides of the church. No musical instruments were allowed; only unaccompanied singing. No Sunday School was available for children. Ministers were 'called to preach'

and were not graduates of seminary programs.

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Lost "Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site" Discovery is likely at Flint's Pond in Massachusetts

[2019-02-28 11:45:17 - USA - PR Distribution™]

IF CONFIRMED, THE JEFF CRAIG DISCOVERY WOULD BE HISTORIC, AS THE SHANTY SITE INSPIRED THOREAU’S WALDEN CABIN PLANS

"An amateur archaeologist, Jeff Craig, may have discovered the “lost” Shanty site where Henry David Thoreau spent 6 weeks in 1837 with his Harvard roommate Charles Stearns Wheeler. Wheeler and his family built the Shanty on the property owned by the George Wheeler family since the 17th Century [mbmsrmd] at Flint’s Pond in 1836, partially motivated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his back-to-nature transcendentalist philosophy.

"It is widely accepted today that Thoreau got the idea to build his cabin from his experiences at Wheeler’s shanty. It is also possible Thoreau helped Wheeler build the shanty. Thoreau first sought to build his cabin at Flint’s Pond in the early 1840’s, but he could not secure permission from the Wheeler family [mbmsrmd]. . In modern times, the location of Wheeler’s Shanty site had become lost, its whereabouts were a complete mystery.

"Intrigued with the challenge of finding this historic site, Jeff Craig began researching the history of Wheeler’s shanty over five years ago. One source stated the site was located on a reedy island in the middle of Flint’s Pond. Multiple sources gave conflicting location information, making the search even harder. After five months, Craig found a possible Shanty site location just off the shore of Flint’s Pond. This site had a stone foundation underground, and archaeologists were consulted to assist in an evaluation of the site. The foundation was found to be a “Dry Stone” foundation (built without mortar). Definitive evidence that it was the actual site remained elusive.

"A breakthrough occurred in 2017. Jeff Craig discovered important evidence at the site that summer, and the subsequent evaluation of this evidence over the next three months revealed artifacts that were consistent with a shanty structure that had been used as a permanent living quarters. The fact that the site was located in the area where a biography about Charles Stearns Wheeler had described it to be (written by John Eidson in 1951, with assistance from the Wheeler family at the time) offered compelling justification the actual site had been found. The site is also located on land the Wheeler family owned in the early 17th century [see George Wheeler Will mbmsrmd].

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"Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [7] who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, poet and private school teacher in Concord, MA, who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

"Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."[8]

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance",[9] "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." Together with "Nature",[10] these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world."[11]

He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement,[12] and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man."[13] Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.[14]

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Henry David Thoreau and Charles Stearns Wheeler were Harvard roommates. Their families lived in Concord, MA.

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BOOKS: America's Founding Spiritual Seeker, Ralph Waldo Emerson's journey From Christianity to Transcendentalism, Aapted from 'The Spiritual Emerson' by David M. Robinson, Beacon Press

"Emerson's path to his philosophy of creativity and spiritual development was not a straight one, but the outcome of a series of difficult struggles with severe illness and grief and with a philosophical skepticism he could never entirely dismiss.

As the son of a prominent Boston minister, Emerson was destined for the ministry, but approached his future with hesitation. He was dogged by feelings of inadequacy of the profession, and he had an aversion to the pastoral duties associated with it.

There was, however, a more serious obstacle: tuberculosis, a pervasive and misunderstood disease that had an epidemic impact on early 19th century New England. It began to manifest itself in Emerson, just as he began his ministerial studies at Harvard, in a period of severely impaired vision. By the time he began writing and delivering his first sermons in 1826, his condition was worsening so much that he traveled south to Florida.

While the sea air and warmer climate no doubt contributed to Emerson's gradual recovery, it seems probable that the release from the immediate stress of studying for the ministry was also therapeutic. Emerson returned in the early summer of 1827 a stronger and more confident man. Within a year and a half he had become engaged to Ellen Tucker, and8 had begun to preach at Boston's Second Church, which would ordain him on March 11, 1829.

Emerson's moment of settled happiness would be short. Ellen, also a victim of tuberculosis, died in February 1831. Her death seems to have weakened the foundations of the life he had constructed for himself, contributing to his resignation from the ministry in 1832. Emerson had already entertained serious questions about the claims of Christianity during his ministry, and about whether he could fulfill his intellectual ambitions there. But Ellen's death seems to have forced Emerson "to live his own life and think his own thoughts." He embarked for Europe on Christmas Day, 1832, full of curiosity, nurturing the beginnings of a new spiritual philosophy, and hatching plans for new forms of intellectual expression.

He returned in the fall of 1833 to begin the most intellectually productive period of his life, establishing himself within a decade as one of America's most innovative and influential thinkers.

Although it is tempting to see his resignation from the ministry and sojourn in Europe as a break in his career, it is more instructive to recognize the continuities that bound his earlier ministry with his new pursuits as an independent lecturer and author. Emerson continued to preach and maintain his clerical identity for several years as he developed a following for his lectures.

More important, he began to develop the philosophical vision that had informed his preaching. His message was to cultivate an inwardness that would keep his listeners in touch with their inherent divinity. He linked this inwardness with faith. By experiencing and reflecting on the natural world, they could discover a unified and constantly developing cosmos that shared a common origin with the human soul.

Emerson used the new form of the public lecture to work out his system in detail, beginning with lectures on natural history in 1834 and then developing an interconnected series of lectures on such topics as "Philosophy of History" and "Human Culture." His new interest in science contributed to his first book, "Nature," now regarded as the initiating text of the Transcendentalist movement.

In the book, Emerson proposed an idealistic conception of the universe in which all its interrelated parts, including the natural world and the human mind, mirrored and signified each other. "A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world."

The mind's apprehension of this cosmic unity was an exacting intellectual discipline. But in rare moments of highly charged perception, we might undergo an experience that bounded on the mystical: Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Emerson found a receptive hearing among young, spiritually oriented men and women who were intellectually restless. Not satisfied with the standard answers of their churches, or with the moral tone of their culture, they were seeking an alternative to an increasingly conformist and materialistic society. Emerson's message appealed to the hunger for fulfillment that was not available in most walks of life.

He was an influential example to such writers as Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman. It was on Emerson's property by Walden Pond that Thoreau built his famous cabin and began his experiment in living a purified life in nature. Fuller, the most important early feminist thinker in America, explained that it was from Emerson that she "first learned what is meant by an inward life.

Emerson and Fuller worked closely together to publish translations of Asian religious texts, one of the earliest appearances of Buddhist and Hindu scriptures in America. Emerson and Thoreau shared this interest in Asian religious thought, which provided them with important confirmation of their deeply held beliefs about the unity of the cosmos.

In 1835, Emerson married Lydia Jackson and settled in Concord, establishing himself permanently in a town with deep ancestral connections and an appealing surrounding countryside. Emerson's devotion to Concord was deep, and he found there a stimulating and supportive community of friends and family who were essential to his remarkably steady productivity as a writer and lecturer.

The publication of "Nature" and his annual lecture series led to two important speaking invitations at Harvard: the annual address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society on August 31, 1837, and a graduation address at the Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838.

Both addresses had an immediate impact. In the first, Emerson stressed the importance of an openness to new thought, and a constant process of beginning anew. His was not a philosophy for the settled or for those who lacked curiosity. "The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."

The next year, in the Divinity School Address, he put forward his ideas as a new religious doctrine, or more accurately, as the recovery of the ancient foundation of all religious sentiment. The address unleashed a furious controversy. "In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man," he commented. "This the people accept readily enough, & even with loud commendation, as long as I call the lecture, Art; or Politics; or Literature; or the Household; but the moment I call it Religion, they are shocked, though it be only the application of the same truth which they receive everywhere else, to a new class of facts."

It may be difficult for modern readers to discern what was shocking about Emerson's appealing hymn to a sentiment of religion alive in every man and woman. But decades of theological controversy had produced raw nerve endings in New England. The Divinity School Address marked a break in the course of religious thinking in America, pointing to a universal, anti-supernatural, and largely secular religion.

Emerson portrayed Jesus as a teacher whose significance and authority arose from his grasp of transcendent moral and spiritual laws rather than from a supernatural nature. "Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man," Emerson declared. But the attribution of miracles or other supernatural powers to Jesus falsified and obscured his real claims. "He spoke of miracles; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends."

Emerson avoided the controversy, believing he could best advance his views through a more complete exposition of his ideas. In 1841 he published "Essays," a collection of 12 loosely interrelated pieces that made up the heart of his new perspective on religion, ethics, and aesthetics and established him as an important literary stylist and innovator.

Emerson is perhaps most widely known for one of the essays in that volume, "Self-Reliance," an emotionally charged, aphoristically dense hymn to individualism with a defiant, almost insolent, edge. Insisting that "nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," Emerson urges us to beware of the two chief obstacles to living a self-reliant life, conformity and consistency. We achieve fulfillment not through pleasing others or adopting their opinions or standards of behavior, Emerson maintains, but instead through recognizing and developing those things that are uniquely ours.

Resisting the pressures of others is, however, far less difficult than resisting the patterns established by our own past actions, and by the identities we have formed as a result of them. The hardest task is to "live ever in a new day," always finding the capacity for spontaneity and originality. That this spontaneity might lead others who thought they could anticipate our actions to misunderstand us should not impede us: Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

"Self-Reliance" can be misread as a dangerously self-indulgent rationale for egotism. But Emerson's faith in the self was an expression of his larger faith in the unified constitution of things. Though the essay is at points combative and antagonistic, its underlying premises are unitary and holistic.

I behold with awe & delight many illustrations of the One Universal Mind. I see my being imbedded in it. As a plant in the earth so I grow in God. I am only a form of him. He is the soul of Me. I can even with a mountainous aspiring say, I am God, by transferring my Me out of the flimsy & unclean precincts of my body, my fortunes, my private will, & meekly retiring upon the holy austerities of the Just & the Loving upon the secret fountains of Nature.

Emerson termed this encompassing unity "The OverSoul." He envisions God in terms that transcend personality or human characteristics by referring to "that Unity, that OverSoul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other."

This concept of the surrender of the limited self operates in Emerson's ethical philosophy too. There is no discrete or disconnected act in the universe, he wrote. Each act brings its own reaction, the thing that we perceive as its reward or punishment. Useful or compassionate acts are unifying. They connect us to the whole. Those acts that are selfish, limited in goals, or cruel, diminish us by separating us from the essential energy of life. The human being, Emerson explains, "aims to be somebody; to set up for himself; to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride that he may ride; to dress that he may be dressed; to eat that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen."

But all these schemes of personal comfort define fulfillment only in terms of consumption and material success, and diminish the significance and value of life itself. "Life invests itself with inevitable conditions," Emerson continues, "which the unwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that he does not know, that they do not touch him; but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul." To Emerson, the spiritual life is a continuing awareness of these conditions, a living out of oneself that is also an intensely inward experience.

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Walden Pond

Charles Stearns Wheeler (1816-1843) | The Walden Woods Project

Charles Stearns Wheeler (1816-1843)

In the last two numbers of “The Dial” were printed letters from Heidelberg on German books and authors, and especially concerning philosophical writings. These were written by Charles Stearns Wheeler, who was living in Germany in order to perfect his studies in preparation for his chosen profession as a clergyman. He was born in Lincoln, Mass., the son of a farmer, and grandson of Dr. Charles Stearns, for fifty years the Lincoln minister, December 19, 1816. He was educated in the town schools and labored on his father’s farm. Concerning this period of his life, he wrote:

“Whenever I came through Cambridge [which was only a few miles from his home, in the direction of Boston] on my way to market, I used to make a point of taking a long look at the College buildings. And if I had any enthusiasm for anything it was to listen to stories about their inmates. To be one of so happy a crew was a lot too blessed for me. As I could not give up wishing it was mine, I was allowed to prepare for college.”

He entered Harvard in 1833. He has been described as being quite simple and unsophisticated in his manners, full of eager curiosity and an abounding health and cheerfulness, which lent a constant smile to his ruddy face. “Rigidly exact in his compliance with college rules and duties,” says one of his college mates, “he never seemed to have an idle moment; so he easily met all the requirements of his instructors and held his own as a scholar with those whose previous opportunities of preparation had been less interrupted and desultory. He sustained a high rank all through his college course and took the second honor of his class at graduation. Without any very brilliant natural endowments, Wheeler was a signal example of what can be accomplished by sturdy, cheerful diligence, and an untiring devotion to duty. He was a man of fixed principles and great purity of character, whose steady aim seemed always to be self-improvement and the acquisition of knowledge.”

Wheeler graduated from Harvard in 1837, after which he taught in a boys’ school for a time. He was then made a tutor in Greek in the college, which position he held from 1838 to 1842; and he gave instruction in the department of history. In 1838 and 1839 he aided Emerson in editing the four volumes of Carlyle’s “Miscellanies” published in Boston. In his letter to Carlyle, Emerson made frequent mention of the diligent aid given him by Wheeler in the proof-reading. Soon after, Wheeler edited an edition of Herodotus with notes, which was received with much favor, and was adopted as a text-book in the college. In 1842 he edited the poems of Tennyson in two volumes, published in Boston, and noticed in the third volume of “The Dial,” page 273, by Margaret Fuller.

At this period, 1841-42, Wheeler built or hired from a farmer a hut on the shores of Flint’s Pond, half-way from Lincoln to Concord, in which he lived for some months. Here he was visited by Thoreau, who was a member of his college class, and with whom two or three years before he had camped-out on the shores of Lincoln Pond. The suggestion of his own experiment on the shores of Walden Pond doubtless came to Thoreau from Wheeler.

Concerning this episode in Wheeler’s life the following account has been given by Ellery Channing, in a letter to Frank B. Sanborn: “Stearns Wheeler built a ‘shanty’ on Flint’s Pond for the purpose of economy, for purchasing Greek books and going abroad to study. Whether Thoreau assisted him to build this shanty I cannot say, but I think he may have; also that he spent six weeks with him there.

As Thoreau was not too original and inventive to follow the example of others, if good to him, it is very probable this undertaking of Stearns Wheeler, whom he regarded (as I think I have heard him say) a heroic character, suggested his own experiment on Walden. I believe I visited this shanty with Thoreau. It was very plain, with bunks of straw, and built in the Irish manner. I think Wheeler was as good a mechanic as Thoreau, and built his shanty for his own use.

The object of these two experiments was quite unlike, except in the common purpose of economy. It seems to me highly probable that Wheeler’s experiment suggested Thoreau’s, as he was a man he almost worshiped. But I could not understand what relation Lowell had to this fact, if it be one. Students in all parts of the earth have pursued a similar course from motives of economy, and to carry out some special study. Thoreau wished to study birds, flowers, and the stone age, just as Wheeler wished to study Greek. And Mr. Hotham [a theological student who lived in a cabin by Walden, in 1869-70] came next, from just the same motive of economy (necessity) and to study the Bible. The prudential sides of all three were the same.”

In the summer of 1842 Wheeler was able to carry out a long contemplated plan of study in Germany. In writing to Carlyle, on July 1 of that year, Emerson said: II Stearns Wheeler, the Cambridge tutor, a good Grecian, and the editor, you will remember, of your American editions, is going to London in August probably, and on to Heidelberg. He means, I believe, to spend two years in Germany and will come to see you on his way; a man whose too facile . and good-natured manners do some injustice to his virtues, to his great industry and real knowledge. He has been corresponding with your Tennyson, and editing his poems here.”

After he was established in Heidelberg, Wheeler sent three or four letters to Emerson, which were published in “The Dial.” He also sent Schelling’s introductory lecture in Berlin, delivered in November, 1841. This was translated by Frederic H. Hedge. In the spring of 1843 Wheeler was attacked by gastric fever, of which he died at Rome, on June 13. He was but twenty-six years of age, and yet he was recognized by those who knew him as a man of much promise. A tradition of his scholarship yet lingers, and he has been highly praised by Emerson and others.

When there came the first report of Wheeler’s death, Thoreau wrote to Emerson: “I should be slow to believe it. He was made to work very well in this world. There need be no tragedy in his death.” When the report was fully confirmed Thoreau wrote to his sister: “I think that Stearns Wheeler has left a gap in the community not easy to be filled. Though he did not exhibit the highest qualities of the scholar, he promised, in a remarkable degree, many of the essential and rarer ones; and his patient industry and energy, his reverent love of letters, and his proverbial accuracy, will cause him to be associated in my memory even with many venerable names of former days. It was not wholly unfit that so pure a lover of books should have ended his pilgrimage at the great book-mart of the world.

I think of him as healthy and brave, and am confident that if he had lived, he would have proved useful in more ways than I can describe. He would have been an authority on all matters of fact, and a sort of connecting link between men and scholars of different walks and tastes. The literary enterprises he was planning for himself and friends remind me of an older and more studious time.

So much, then, remains for us to do who survive.” In conveying the news of Wheeler’s death to Thoreau, Emerson wrote : “You will have read and heard the sad news, to the little village of Lincoln, of Stearns Wheeler’s death. Such an overthrow to the hopes of his parents made me think more of them than of the loss the community will suffer in his kindness, diligence, and ingenuous mind.” A class-mate, John Weiss, wrote a poetical tribute to his friend, in which he said:

“Near Leipsic’s book-fair well book’d Wheeler lies;

Native to him the scholar’s high emprize.

Hill earliest books he plough’d from Lincoln’s soil,

Found sermons in its stones; there farmer’s toil

Toughened his sinews into mind, and made

His purpose steadfast.”

The monument erected to Wheeler’s memory in Mount Auburn contained on one side this tribute: .. He was four years an able and faithful instructor in Harvard University. To the learning of the scholar he added the piety of the Christian. Ardent and indefatigable, in a short life he did the work of many years. Simple in manners, pure in heart, affectionate in disposition, he was beloved by all who knew him. His remains, restored to his native land, rest here.”

Wheeler was the first to die of the attendants upon the meetings of the transcendental club and of the contributors to “The Dial;” and his youth, together with the promise his life had given of scholarly attainments, endeared his memory to those who had known him most intimately. He was often spoken of with pathetic tenderness.

—George Willis Cooke, A Historical and Biographical Introduction to the Dial (Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1902) v. 2, pp. 161-165

Thoreau quotation

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Suns.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers More Thinking & Thoughts quotations All quotation categories

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‘Called to Preach the Gospel from a Transcendentalism Perspective’ is

an excitement state and Fever pitch
an emotionally focused Human Nature
an intensely concentrated Neurological trance
From solitude, eliminating external stimuli
While transcendentally Interconnected with God
Is sometimes Preached in tongues
But calmly written in poetry and essays.

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WALDEN POND and Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau put transcendentalism into practice by living in a cabin in the woods for two years. The cabin, which he built himself, was situated near the shore of Walden Pond. Thoreau wanted to live simply in nature and be completely self-reliant. He observed the passing of the seasons and learned the names of the flora and fauna surrounding him. At the end of his experience, Thoreau was inspired to write Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Today, visitors can walk in Thoreau’s footsteps on a path around the pond and see a replica of his cabin. Aside from a tour group from Taiwan, I didn’t pass many other people on the trail. Though I did spot a few hardy locals swimming in the frigid water.

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“The spirit of the time is in every form a protest against usage and a search for principles --Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Dial
“I was given to understand that whatever was unintelligible would be certainly Transcendental.” --Charles Dickens, American Notes

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A Brief History of Transcendentalism
1832—Emerson resigns the ministry of the Unitarian Church (difference of ideals)
1836—The “gospel” of Transcendentalism is published—Nature, by Emerson
1838—Emerson delivers his Divinity School Address at Harvard, which brought controversy on the nature of miracles (called “Monsters” by Emerson)
1840—The Dial, a Transcendental magazine, is published.
1841—George Ripley, a Transcendentalist, founds Brook Farm, a utopian experiment
1845—In order to observe nature and its symbolism and sacredness, Henry David Thoreau goes to live at Walden Pond.
1855—Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass
1862—Thoreau dies.

Basic Pillars of Transcendentalism

Stress on individualism. An individual is the center of the universe. In an individual can be found the answers to “Life, the universe, and everything”.
The universe is constructed as the individual is. Therefore, “Know thyself.”
Nature is a living mystery, symbolic and full of signs.
Two psychological tendencies must be reconciled, the tendency to become one with the world, and the tendency to withdraw from the world and remain unique.
And the most important assumption: There is a Universal Soul, an Oversoul, that encompasses the life-force of all humanity. This Oversoul is known in Hinduism (an often-studied religion by Transcendentalists) as Brahman.

Concepts formed by these assumptions:

--The thinking man “transcends” his lower impulses, our primitive animalistic instincts. This is the way to a true spiritual reunion with the Oversoul.
--At death, the human soul (called Atman in Hinduism) returns to the Oversoul, since we were all part of It in the first place.
--Because we are all part of the Oversoul, each man is to respect his fellow man (“Love your neighbor…”).
--The Oversoul can be found everywhere, especially in the untouched virgin areas of nature.
--Jesus was also a part of God, like all of us, but he led more of a transcendentalistic life than any of us.
--As Emerson said in his Divinity School Address, “Miracle…is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.” A natural event or object, even a mouse, is truly more miraculous than an unnatural event.
--Evil is merely an absence of good, a negative. “Light is more powerful than darkness because one ray of light penetrates the darkness.”
--Fate, or predestination, exists, but usually it works against mankind. It is man’s job to work against these outside powers, and use “self-reliance.”
The Evolution of Transcendentalism
--The philosophy of Transcendentalism derives from Unitarianism.
--Unitarianism emphasizes intellectualism, logic, and reason as the path to divine wisdom. Unlike Calvinists, they stress voluntary ethical conduct, and doing good simply for the sake of doing good.
--Unitarians, and other liberal Christians, separated from orthodox Christianity during the Great Awakening.
--Unitarians took their dogma from the European Enlightenment.
--Some separated also from the Unitarians, theorizing that emotionalism, not rational thoughts, could lead to enlightenment. These soon-to-be Transcendentalists yearned for a more spiritual experience. Emerson would call Unitarianism “corpse-cold.”
--The Transcendentalists found their inspiration from English and German romanticism and the philosophies of Goethe and Kant.
--Transcendentalists truly broke away from Unitarians during an argument over the nature of miracles brought on by Emerson’s Divinity School Address.

Recommended Websites for More Information on Transcendentalism

http://eserver.org/thoreau/amertran.htm

http://www.transcendentalists.com

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html

http://womenshistory.about.com/bltranscend.htm

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Scientifically Educated Belief, Seeing Is Believing

Scientifically Educated Belief, (Spirituality, Religion and Meditation) is as devoted and its outcome, the Soul, is as effective as Religious Belief, (Spirituality, Religion and Meditation). The main difference is their different languages. Additionally, Scientifically Literate Belief is more NeuroBioPhysicsology comprehensive and the diagnoses and treatments more definitive and managing patients to wellness is extremely rewarding for both the patient and Doctor.

Scientists and Doctors, who Scientifically proclaim and practice their Belief in God, will seldom swap their ‘works’ of ‘patient-care’ in their offices and hospitals to preaching in the the pulpit for many reasons, but the visualization of ‘healing’ is the most powerful ‘seeing is believing’ Psychology.

Healing is a bestowed power.

Healing Patients is more powerful than other verbal practices alone without the good visual outcome. Patient Healing is as rewarding for the Doctor as the patient, again unlike non-medical practices and preaching. The prime example is the healing Jesus performed as written in the scriptures. God apparently did not consider Jesus' preaching alone without visualization of healing sufficiently powerful.

‘Seeing Is Believing: The Power of Visualization’ by AJ Adams, MAPP, Dec 03, 2009, Psychology Today and Many other references.

When Human Health, Wellness and Treatments are customary

· and Preservation of the Human Soul is established
· and Human Spiritual and Physical well-being, which are the Human ‘Holy Temple of God’, supported by Science and Medicine, are established
· Biblical Cleanliness, which is next to Godliness, is manifest
“Seeing is believing.”
· Seeing Human Science’ and Medicine at work on Earth is believing.
· Seeing the “the sick healed, the lepers cleansed,
· the spiritually dead raised and devils cast out” is believing. [Mat 10:7-8]
Allowing ‘Science and Medicine to ‘Speak’ following proof of factual evidence
· and allowing Spiritualness, Religions, Meditation and Ministers to ‘Speak’ following theological instruction and memes
· demonstrated that both categories often delivered similar messages
· but the similar messages were in different languages.
· The 2 categories have different modus operandi and outcomes
· that are understood by their colleagues and constituents.
· Science and Healthcare Quality have been objectively, impartiality experimentally verified and peer reviewed, and survived the test of time.
· The expected outcome of Science and Medicine when allowed to ‘Speak’ is excellent Physical Healthcare. Physicality
· The expected outcome of Spirituality, Religious, Meditation and Ministers when allowed to ‘Speak’ is the Human e-Soul Energy Field, where "Memories of Righteous Consciousness" reside. Energy Field.
· Human Physicality and e-Soul Energy Field are similarly advantageous.
Science and Medicine provide the healthy shoulders on which Humans stand, as intended when Nature’s wonders were Created and perfected and intelligently designed with mathematical equation constants, long before imperfect Humans were in their Final Stage of Creation.

To err is human, to forgive Divine [Alexander Pope]; To conspire is evil, to contrive is misled design [mbmsrmd]

Humans were Created to see and hear predictable, steadfast ‘Science, Medicine and ‘Mother Nature’ Speak.’

When not carefully listened, not paid attention, and mistakes are made ancients say: “To err is human and to persist in committing such errors is of the devil.”( Seneca the Younger, not verified) The mindless might err and Fail to care for Human Health, Wellness, Treatment and Preservation and Neglect Science’ and Medicine and disregard the Human spiritual and physical body, ‘God’s Holy Temple’ but only the fool persists in his fault.”(Cicero, Philippicae, XII, 2, 5).,

God gradually revealed himself in Genesis. Our God is The Creator, the Highest Spiritual Being located outside our Universe in the Hypercosmos, a Scientist, and Healing God, having Created the Science of Nature and our Universe and all within beginning [Gen 1:1] and the Creator of Humans [Gen 1:26] and The Heavenly God Healing Humans [Gen 20:17] and The Heavenly Creator of Healing by Jesus on Earth [Mat 8:16].

Summarizing, our God is the Creator of our Universe, and everything else within our Universe our Solar System, Nature.
and Creator of Humans and all life
and therefore a Scientist.
Our God is the Highest Spiritual Being
and the Heavenly Human Healer (Doctor) on Earth
and the Heavenly Creator of Healing by Jesus on Earth.
and the Human ‘Holy Temple of God’, Human Spiritual and Physical well-being, supported by pillars of Science and Medicine.
God wears all those 'hats' and condemns blasphemy of any of His Images that he revealed of himself in Genesis.

Disputing, disapproving and assaulting Science’ and Healing (Medicine) are irreverent and blasphemous, the one "unforgivable" sin in all of Scriptures (Leviticus 24:10-16); the same as desecration of Jesus and our Creator and defilement of ‘God’s Holy Temple’ which is the Human body’s sanctuary for spiritual and physical fitness, that requires the application of the methods of Healing, Science and Medicine, that were specifically Created for development of the Human Soul, the final stage of Human Creation.

[Lev: 24:16] “And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.”

You are God's Temple (Romans 12:1-8;20)

1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

1 Corinthians 6:18-

16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

“Fools rush-in where wisdom knows better than prey and fools erroneously persist in fault aspiring dominion, while draped with phoney knowledge, But Instead, fools seal their fate” when defiling and directly assaulting God,

Spewing hate-for and asserting-false-supremacy-over God’s Human embodied Holy Temple, also known as Human Souls where God and His Holy Spirit also with the Righteous live and God and His Holy Spirit exclusively dwell on Earth. Id est God’s Final Act of Human Creation

The reason for Creation in the first place.

To err is human, to forgive divine" (line 325 Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism of 1711).

To conspire and contrive evil are forbiddingly designed. (mbmsrmd)

Sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger, but not attested: Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum, et tertia non datur (To err is human; to persist [in committing such errors] is of the devil, and the third possibility is not given.)

Several authors contemplated the idea before Seneca: Livy, Venia dignus error is humanus (Storie, VIII, 35) and Cicero: is Cuiusvis errare: insipientis nullius nisi, in errore perseverare (Anyone can err, but only the fool persists in his fault) (Philippicae, XII, 2, 5).

Cicero, being well-versed in ancient Greek, may well have been alluding to Euripides' play Hippolytus some four centuries earlier.

[1] 300 years later Saint Augustine of Hippo recycled the idea in his Sermones, 164, 14: Humanum fuit errare, diabolicumk est per animositatem in errore manere.
[2] The phrase gained currency in the English language after Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism of 1711: "To err is human, to forgive divine" (line 325)

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Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness

Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness, apart from pure Physicality and Spirituality, is

1-united Quantum Entangled and Coherent Mass-Energy-Dualism-State. This Wellness (Healthiness) is an exclusive NeuroNetwork(s) and NeuroNet(s) unto its own.

Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness is Genomic and Homogeneous and made from the same Information codes. As a Kindred Mass-Energy-Dualism-State, it is Neuroanatomically and Neurophysiologically entwined and is one-in-the-same Wellness NeuroNetwork(s) and NeuroNet(s).

The Neurological Science for Religiousness, Spirituality, Belief-of, Obedience-to, Righteousness and Worship of God and Praise of Jesus is supported by The Dopamine-Reward System, which is fundamental in that Neurological Science and offer God, Jesus and Eternity as Human Rewards. Dopamine Neurotransmitters are fundamental to The Dopamine-Reward System NeuroNetwork(s) and NeuroNet(s).

The Dopamine-Reward System including the NeuroNetwork(s), NeuroNet(s), Dopamine Neurotransmitters and the specific Rewards are extremely sophisticated. Any 'genius' who concludes that this phenomenal System originated from an 'unintelligent wave of space' with no information codes and and totally detached from Science and our Creator, rather than the hypothesis of Intelligent Design Creation containing Information Codes specific Rewards, needs their 'head examined'.

Hard working, determined, ambitious people are motivated and rewarded for their labors. The religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God are willful.

The Human Brain Dopamine-Reward System and Motivation NeuroNetwork stimulate Willfulness, another key element that is interconnected to the system. Dopamine neurotransmitters spark motivation. For The Human Brain Motivation NeuroNetwork, specifically, it matters which pathway dopamine takes. The Mesolimbic Pathway, which comes from the middle of the brain and branches to various places like the Cerebral Cortex, is the most important reward pathway in the Human Brain.

One of the Mesolimbic stops is the Nucleus Accumbens. When dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens has been stimulated, it triggers feedback for predicting rewards, demonstrating the complicated interconnection in a Cybernetic Feedback System. Essentially, the Human brain recognizes that something important is about to happen, so dopamine kicks in. Rewards spark the feel good mechanism i.e. Pavlov’s dogs. [Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation, April 9, 2019 by Kevan Lee originally December of 2013, updated for by Willa Rubin in 2017 and again in 2019, I Done This Blog, The Science of Small Wins, The Science of Productivity » Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation, Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science]

Motivation is fundamental to the Dopamine Neurochemical-Reward System, which is a basic mechanism for Religiousness, Spirituality, Belief-of, Obedience-to, Righteousness, Meditation and Worship of God Neurological Science.

For activation of the Dopamine Neurochemical-Reward System for Religiousness, Spirituality, Belief-of, Obedience-to, Righteousness and Worship of God, Scientifically Educated Christian discernment are more compelling, confident stimuli, than mysterious, supernatural questions and fear of the devil, which are mothers’ milk motivations for Constantine beginners’ Christianity, which is fine. But deep meaning, cause and purpose requires more advanced Science.

However, stimuli for Christian Religiousness, Spirituality, Belief-of, Obedience-to, Righteousness and Worship of God are equally significant and important for God, but equally important to Neuroplasticity of the individual’s push-pull-Cybernetics.

Christian conversion is “the adoption of a new Christian Religious Belief in God. It involves and requires internalization of the newly activated, already placed in the Brain, Belief System.”

For Christian conversion, judgment approves the Faith, Hope, Love and total philosophy of Jesus, and subscription to them as most Righteous and Reasonable.

The desire for Christian conversion is to know the whole mind of Jesus; the free and willful choice of the Human mind is determined by the ways of Jesus, not the pleasures of sin, and materiality of the world and the daily care of life to walk with God. [Joseph Alleine, p. 162., Dictionary of Burning Words by many brilliant authors (1895)]

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the Soul. God's Grace lights up the dark heart. And "when a human has once been kindled at the cross of Christ", he is bound to shine. [Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 163. Dictionary of Burning Words by many brilliant authors (1895)]

The NeuroNetworks for Religiousness, Spirituality, Belief-of, Obedience-to, Righteousness and Worship of God and Praise of Jesus , supported by The Dopamine-Reward System, which is fundamental in that Neurological Science and offer God, Jesus and Eternity as Human Rewards and Dopamine Neurotransmitters, which are fundamental to The Dopamine-Reward System are the oldest WILLFUL NeuroNetwork(s) and NeuroNet(s) in the HUMAN BRAIN .

The pure perfect union of Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness, which originated in the beginning of Creation, are the same Biblical State of Cleanliness, which is next to Godliness.

Administration of Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness Therapy are the pillars of Our Creator and Jesus' method of 'healing'. Our Creator and Jesus' method of 'healing' is not to be discouraged, disparaged, belittled, denied nor destructed.

Scientificness is "the quality of being scientific. The Etymology of Scientificness is from mid-17th-Century; the earliest use was in Edward Waterhouse (1619–1670), heraldic writer: scientific -ness."
Spiritualness is relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. [LEXICO, Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary,]
Holistic Health is the integrated whole of all the Human parts i.e. physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of a person's life, which must be included as its wholeness.

Mathew 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mathew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Mathew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: with his word, Jesus cast out the spirits, and healed all that were sick: spiritually and physically.
Mathew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Administration of Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness Therapy are the pillars of Our Creator and Jesus' method of 'healing'; and not to be discouraged, disparaged, belittled and denied.
[1Co 6:1 - 6:20]: 'Apostle Paul in Corinth, “Do you not know that your body is The Human Temple of the Holy Spirit of God, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were blessed with a reward from God. Therefore, Honor God with the Physical and Spiritual Wellness of your body” [1Corinthians 6:19-2
1. Indeed, God the Father created our body,
2. God the Son redeemed our body,
3. and God the Holy Spirit dwells within our body.
This ordains our Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness. The Human Temple of the Holy Spirit of God." [Got Questions Ministries. last updated: January 2, 2020]

The 2 dualism-states follow that sustain Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness:

I. Creation ‘Naturally Nurtured’ the cavalcade of Information Codes for Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness, that began with the 2-relic-energy-particles that comprised the 1st group dualism-states:

1. Higgs bosons, predominantly initiated the beginnings of Energy fields, and
2. Fermion, predominantly initiated the beginnings Molecules, Mass, Matter and Material objects.
3. In unison, both began the Scientification of our Universe.

II. Creation began the cavalcade of the atomic elements for Human Life that sustains Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness that comprised the 2nd group of dualism-states that began with

1.) Nucleosynthesis of heavy Hydrogen (H₂)
2.) continued with CHNOPS atoms, atomic numberse equal to or less than 16, necessary for finite physical Human life
3.) continued concomitantly with Human Spiritual Infinite Energy for the Soul

During the first 20 minutes after the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago, these remarkable Creation ingredients were further melded in the Universal-pot with the cavalcade of Information Codes for Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness-dualism, the meaning of Life and our Universe.

Those remarkable rapid Creation Information encoding ingredients were simultaneously unified in the Universe-soup during the first infinitesimal 20 minutes, relatively speaking, compared to the gigantic magnitude of 13.8 Billion years ago. The 20-minute melding was simultaneously blended as Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness Creation.

That is the meaning of Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness Creation. In our Universe, Physical and Spiritual Wellness began unified-together, during 20-minute-blip at the same time, 13.8 years ago.

After adaptation and evolution for 13.8 years, the Final Stage of Human Creation, the Neuroanatomical Brain’ God Module’, the NeuroNetworks for willful Spiritual, Religious and Meditation Practices, Belief in God, worship of God and Infinite Soul, became manifest.

Consequently, “a reasonable amount of Human Scientific Education is important and intended for U.S. citizens: “It is imperative that policy-makers, the media, and the general public are able to distinguish the facts from mere interpretations of a biased constituency.”(SETC)

“Politicians and government officials should never ignore Scientific facts for the sake of bureaucratic empire-building, ideological goals or pleasing activists.”

“Non-Scientific Opinions and disregard of reputable Scientific and Medical facts and data are dangerous and often are an attempt to deconstruct Scientificated Medicine. Unknowingly, amid attempted deconstruction of Scientificated Medicine, because of their Interconnection , Spiritually (Holiness) is simultaneously disregarded with the deconstruction.

Few realize the Interconnectedness of Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual dualism with each other and Interconnectedness with our Universe.

“The beauty of the appropriate Scientific method is that the method protects U.S. Citizens from falsifications and bias and assists Human understanding of the truth and the constructive applications of Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness.

Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness, The Human Temple of the Holy Spirit of God and Scientificated Spirituality, Science, Medicine and Spiritual wholeness, are resonable and rational understandings. When ignored or misinterpreted blasphemously, Humanity regresses toward an irrational, superstitious and counterproductive past.

For Example: A 2001 study sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation found:

only ~ 50% of Citizens surveyed understood that the Earth circles the Sun once a year
only 45 % could give an “acceptable definition” of DNA
only 22 % understood what a molecule is.
More recent research by Jon Miller, Professor of Integrative Studies at Michigan State University, found that 70 %of Americans cannot understand the science section of the New York Times.

Such widespread lack of Scientific Education (Scientific Illiteracy) has a negative impact on policy, the practice of Medicine, Science Research, new approaches to farming and food, policies for the reduction of hunger and disease, irrationality that threatens Science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our Democracy and many other practical issues.” [Dick Taverne, 2005 ‘The March of Unreason’]

“Taverne found evidence of such irrationality about vaccines, nuclear power, climate change and genetic engineering etc. [Scientifically Illiterate America by Henry I. Miller, November 29, 2017, Hoover Institution]

Scientific and Medical Biblical Acts to cure, mend, restore and improve Humans Wellness are evidenced by the number of times the word Heal occurs in the KJV of the Holy Bible. Heal occurs 40 times in 39 verses. Healing occurs 14 times in 13 verses and Healed occurs 79 times in 77 verses in the KJV of the Holy bible.

Human Reverence for Creation and Healing Sciences and Human Reverence for Spiritual Holiness are the 2 Interconnected Pillars of ‘Cleanliness’ and the reason ‘Cleanliness’ is next to Godliness.

Our God is a Scientific and Spiritual Creator. Our God Created the Science of Nature, the Universe, Physics, Astronomy, Einstein Theory of Relativity, Galaxies, black holes and so on, (Genesis 1:3) significantly before the Creation of Humans. “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”

Then God Created Cognitive Humans in His Likeness. (Genesis 1:26) 26

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Scientificated Spiritual Unity is a unified and undivided Interconnected wholeness, transmitted immediately into the beginning of our Universe after the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago. Science and Spirituality are 1 inseparable unit of Godliness.

Because ‘seeing is believing’, the best example, Jesus, who was positioned strategically and visibly on Earth, demonstrated the Power and Magnificence of God.

Mathew 10:1 "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease."

The meaning of Mathew 10:1 is obvious. Our God during Creation immediately Scientificated Spirituality, (Holiness). With our God’s omniscient powers of Truth, He endowed the disciples with the same callings as Jesus, the healing practice of Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness , because our Creator is a Gracious Healer, Scientist and Spiritual God.

For the Human disposition of Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness, ‘God provides the rewards: not what Humans desire, but what Humans need” i.e. faith, hope and love, Good Health, families, wellness, less drug and alcohol addiction and less depression, greater longevity and especially hope for Eternity.

Consequently, physically and spiritually ailing Humans should never be medically governed or attended by uncertain and uneducated ‘professionals’, sorcerers with emotional, superstitious, supernatural, magic and palm readings by a magician, wizard, charmer with ‘lay gut feelings’ for governance and/or treatments. Those untrained, rather than trained and educated, would be negligent and detrimental to the meaning and purpose of life.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi are examples of Scientificated Spirituality, (Holiness) teachingHuman Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness:

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Scientifically Literate Christian and Mahatma Gandhi was a Scientifically Literate ‘Religious Pluralist’. Gandhi followed and studied many different religions.

Gandhi grew up in a Hindu and Jain religious atmosphere in his native Gujarat. He was a Scientifically Literate Religious Pluralist, predominantly an Advaitist Hindu in his religious persuasion, and supported Dvaitist viewpoints but he was also influenced by his personal reflections and the literature of Hindu Bhakti Saints, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and thinkers such as Tolstoy, Ruskin and Thoreau.[208][209] .[210][211][212

“Martin Luther King, Jr. parents were both college-educated. At Morehouse, King favored studies in Medicine and Law, and, because of his inquisitive passion, continually studied during his lifetime, but these were eclipsed in his senior year by a decision to enter the ministry, as urged by his father.

“King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he became acquainted with Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence, as well as the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians.

“From Crozer, King went to Boston University seeking a firm foundation for his own theological and ethical inclinations. King studied man’s relationship with God and received a doctorate (1955) for a dissertation titled “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.” [Martin Luther King, Jr. BY David L. Lewis, Jul 27, 2020, Encyclopdia Britannica]

MLK, Jr. was inspired by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-1948, who was an Indian lawyer,[3] anti-colonial nationalist,[4] and political ethicist,[5] who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule,[6] and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891.

“Gandhi was not anti-science as is commonly misunderstood. He actively pursued scientific understanding. Gandhi promoted an alternative science for civil society that would operate with different methods. Science was not advanced before Gandhi died 1949. Gandhi also had a universal message by providing a new Cosmology on man-nature and fact-value relations that he articulated and put in place through his various experiments.” [Towards an understanding of Gandhi's views on Science". Mkgandhi.org. 1 November 1934. Archived from11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016]

“Gandhi grew up in a Hindu and Jain religious atmosphere in his native Gujarat, which were his primary influences, but he was also influenced by his personal reflections and literature of Hindu Bhakti Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Advaita Vedanta, and thinkers such as Tolstoy, Ruskin and Thoreau.[208][209] Gandhi was extremely pious, like his mother, and at age 57 he declared himself to be Advaitist Hindu in his religious persuasion, but added that he supported Dvaitist viewpoints and religious pluralism.[210][211][212] [Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] [Towards an understanding of Gandhi's views on Science". Mkgandhi.org. 1 November 1934. Archived from11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016]

Another example was American Founding Father and 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who was a "statesman of science" for over 20 years and simultaneously while U.S. President, Jefferson served as president of the ‘American Philosophical Society’, the preeminent scientific foundation at the time (and coincidentally founded by Benjamin Franklin).”

“In this dual role, President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) effectively served as America's scientific leader, as well as its political leader. “During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as a wartime governor (1779–1781).

“Jefferson, while primarily a planter, lawyer and politician and mastered many disciplines, which ranged from surveying and mathematics to horticulture and mechanics. He was an architect in the classical tradition. Please read Jefferson’s entire phenomenal political history in reference citations. “Jefferson's keen interest in religion and philosophy led to his presidency of the American Philosophical Society; he shunned organized religion but was influenced by both Christianity and deism. “Presidential scholars and historians generally praise his public achievements, including his advocacy of religious freedom and tolerance in Virginia. Jefferson continues to rank highly among U.S. presidents.

“President Jefferson developed a rational religion. From this deep intellectual's mind and rationalism evolved an affirmation of faith rather than a rejection of religious belief. Jefferson believed that Humans are allowed to extract, examine and recite from the gospels at the beginning of context. "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear" Jefferson said.

“He defined his faith as a belief supported by reason. Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were the 2 classic American presidential theologians. Theology was characterized as interpreting the life of a people in the light of a transcendent reference. 9.

“Thomas Jefferson was there described as a man with intense spirituality, a person in the light of a transcendent reference. His life's history revealed an remarkable self-transcendence. “He believed in natural law, in natural reason, and in our accessible God. He was critical of "priest-craftery" and institutional religion. Jefferson's beliefs put him at odds with what many .

An ancient example, Apostle Thomas Didymus was the only Scientist in the New Testament. He proved that Jesus was alive when he thrust his finger into the side of Jesus. Thomas taught the duplicity of Jesus: Thomas Didymus taught the duplicity of Jesus. Thomas believed that Jesus waws a man of human flesh born in pure perfect union with the Word of God. A man of human flesh, the son of Man and the Word of God, the son of God, joined together as twins. Pure perfect union with the Word of God, or son of God, joined together as twins.

1Co 6:1 - 6:20: 'Human Holy Spirit Temple of God' is Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness

Humans are "joined unto the Lord is one 'Temple of God with HIs Holy Spirit'. Willful belief, worship and obedience of God and praise of Jesus for his teaching, facilitates the commitment of God to each person's body and spirit.

“The manner in which Humans treat their bodies reflects their appreciation for God’s Creation and their reverence for the presence of the Holy Spirit.“

In the New Testament, members of the early church struggled with caring properly for their spiritual health. One thing that contributed to the detriment of the early church’s spiritual health was the way they treated their physical bodies.

"During the era of the 'Apostles’ Teachings', it was much easier to identify and treat areas of spiritual decay.“ (Corinthians 6:9)

"God intentionally designed the Human body for His reason, cause and purpose. But in this 'Modern Era', Humans have much more to do than early believers in order to care for both physical and spiritual health.....It has become easier than ever to neglect physical and spiritual health.“

The hurried pace of life and destructive attitudes, including politics, wealth and world domination, that Humans have adopted have devastating repercussions on spiritual and physical health.

The facts are 'Good Health and Wellness' are Important disciplines for Christianity. For religions and every other discipline, it’s time that Humans change their deteriorating perspective on physical health and the way physical health affects Human spiritual health.

Despite busyness and deadlines, Humans must find time to invest in their physical health as well as spiritual health and respect the disciplines oif Science and Medicine. [Why Health is Important in Christianity - This Illustrious Life https://thisillustriouslife.com/why-health-is-important-in-christianity/]

Peculiar events have flabbergasted many concerned Scientists, Doctors, Nurses and other people. There have been recent derogatory comments intended to deconstruct Science, the Scientific method, the Discipline of Medicine, and burden Scientists, Doctors and first responders in an attempt to deconstruct God and Jesus’ commitment to the 'Holy Spirit Temple of God'. The attempt is not only blasphemous, but additionally unrighteousness and forbidden.

The Human body and Spirit are “joined unto the Lord” in one 'Temple of God-and-Holy Spirit'. (1Co 6:1 - 6:20) Humans must realize their body is a 'Holy Spirit Temple of God'; Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness (Physical and Spiritual Cleanliness). Let no Human or group desecrate and deconstruct the 'Holy Spirit Temple of God'.

The facts are: 'Seeing the works of Jesus is believing'. 'Science and Spiritual Wellness (Cleanliness) are next to Godliness'.

Nowadays, most Scientifically Educated Christians believe the pillars for Belief-in and Obedience-to God and praise of Jesus. Seeing Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spirituality is believing. Scientifically Educated decisions count, when important solutions matter.

The following are just a few hospital names associated with religions, who obviously understand the concept of the Human Holy Spirit Temple of God, as continuously Scientificated Spiritual Community: Mercy, Adventist, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Ascension. Christ, Jewish, Beth Israel, Blessing, St. Joseph, St Luke, Christus, Good Samaritan, Holly Cross, Mount Sinai, Our Lady 0f, Peace, Sacred Heart, St., Saint, Trinity, Via Christi,

In years to come most hospitals will become Religiously Affiliated Hospitals, “because caring for the sick by the Scientifically and Medically Educated, who respect the Human Holy Spirit Temple of God, a continuously Scientificated Spiritual Community in everyone, regardless of illiteracy, race, creed or color, is the Right Thing To Do.”

The education of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Karamch Gandhi and Gandhi’s influence on King, influenced the following often quoted statement by King: "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny”:[Martin Luther King, Jr. from "A Christmas Sermon on Peace," 1967]:

That single garment of destiny that interrelates all Human life is the Human Body and Spirit, “joined unto the Lord” in one Human Temple of God-and-Holy Spirit. {1Co 6:1 - 6:20]

The 'Human Holy Spirit Temple of God' i.e. Human Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Human Holistic Physical and Spiritual Wellness impart

Scientific Certainty about how God affected the Divine Intelligent Design Creation of our Universe and Interconnected Oneness of everything
Scientific Certainty about how God affects Human Brains Neuroanatomically and Neurophysiologically which are substantiated by Holy Biomarkers, marking the presence of God in the Human Brain tissue
Scientific Certainty that Humans are “joined together unto the LORD in one “Temple of God, the physical and spiritual Human with God and His Holy Spirit
Scientific Certainty about the Human Sanctified Soul, a ‘Spiritual Quantum Energy Field’ that is immediately surrounded by an Afterworld Energy Field and transferred to Infinite Energy of Life Everafter
Those are Scientific Certainties
Everything is just a consequence of many infinitely-large vibrating Energy Fields. The entire universe is made of fields playing a vast, subatomic symphony. Physicists are trying to understand the melody.” * said Don Lincoln [Quantum Physics The Good Vibrations of Quantum Field Theories by Don Lincoln, 5 Aug 2013, The Nature of Reality, KET]
“Divine Intelligent Design Creation was the origin of ‘Circular Causation’, Cybernetically Interconnected and Rotating Universe’. [Cybernetic Push-Pull Divine Intelligent Design Creation https://myscientistgod.us/cybernetics-of-creation]
Our God is always with us. God is encoded and is an inhabitant in each Human Brain, awaiting willful conscious activation
To believe-in and worship God is an inborn obligation and joyful intrinsic inheritance
Scientifically Educated Christians are content, satisfied, happy, emotionally balanced, enjoy doubt-less Belief-in and worship-of God and praise of Jesus for teaching how to worship
God’s Scientific Truth promotes Scientifically Educated Christian Certainty
"There is something to be said for a man who dies happy,” because of their Scientifically Educated Christian Certainty."

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Scientificated Spirituality

As instrumentation improves and, if life on Earth survives long enough, Science will eventually prove Everything.

For example, a recent question proves the point: "Did Quantum Physics and esteemed, prestigious Scientists and Doctors recently prove there is really life after death? And prove a quantum code for all living beings? It’s a thought-provoking subject!" [Quantum Physics May Have Proved There Is Life After Death And There Is A Quantum Code For All Living Beings, Cynthia McKanzie, MessageToEagle.com]

Heaven, the Soul and Life Everafter are not as unrealistic, farfetched and questionable as in years before. In Casablanca, ‘As time Goes by’, Humans might live to witness a more educated Scientification of Universe formation and Eternity. The Human Soul appears to be Energy. Einstein proved that Energy never dies and can only be transformed form one form to another, which is a Scientificated step in the right direction.

Scientificated-Holy-Spirituality is a unified and undivided Science and Spiritual wholeness, that was immediately actuated by our Creator into the beginning of our Universe, after the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago.

Scientificated-Holy-Spirituality is 1 inseparable unit of our Creator’s modus operandi operating in-unison to Scientificate every Universe big and little detail while draped in Holy-Spirituality. Our Creator’s Body with philosophy, rule and law, His blueprint action plan and Scientificated-Holy-Spiritual-Energy conveyance system.

“The world was flat until Galileo, a brilliant physicist, who invented the experimental method, suggested that that the Earth was not flat and our Earth circled and rotated around the sun.

“Consequently, for his irreverence, Galileo was imprisoned and excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the Pope. His excommunication judgment was entered in 1633. Galileo’s excommunication was posthumously annulled only a few years ago by the Pope John Paul. [64.]

In 1992, the news reported that the Catholic Church had vindicated Galileo:

“The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world’s structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture. [Pope John Paul II, L’Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) – November 4, 1992.] [70.]

Students learned in school and understand that Galileo was correct. Basic scientific facts are understood by grade school children. Times have changed. More complicated scientific facts have been discovered each day.

“The 14th century saw the beginning of the cultural movement of the Renaissance. The rediscovery of ancient texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, when many Byzantine scholars had to seek refuge in the West, particularly Italy. Also, the invention of the printing press was to have great effect on European society: the facilitated dissemination of the printed word democratized learning and allowed a faster propagation of new ideas.

“But this initial period is usually seen as one of scientific backwardness. There were no new developments in physics or astronomy, and the reverence for classical sources further enshrined the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic views of the universe. Renaissance philosophy lost much of its rigor as the rules of logic and deduction were seen as secondary to intuition and emotion. At the same time, Renaissance humanism stressed that nature came to be viewed as an animate spiritual creation that was not governed by laws or mathematics. Science would only be revived later, with such figures as Copernicus, Gerolamo Cardano, Francis Bacon, and Descartes.

“With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation, principally in the field of Medicine, dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of human anatomy.[1] The development of modern neurology began in the 16th century with Andreas Vesalius, who described the anatomy of the brain and other organs; he had little knowledge of the brain's function,

“The last major event in Renaissance astronomy is the work of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). He was among the first generation of astronomers to be trained with the Theoricae novae and the Epitome. Shortly before 1514 he began to revive Aristarchus's idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He spent the rest of his life attempting a mathematical proof of heliocentrism. When De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was finally published in 1543, Copernicus was on his deathbed. Copernicus’ book 1543, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was described as the beginning of Science.

["landmark in human thought" (PMM), heralding the birth of heliocentrism and changing our view of the universe forever. "The earliest of the three books of Science that most clarified the relationship of man and his universe (along with Newton's Principia and Darwin's Origin of Species"] [Heralds of Science, Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby’s Historical Book Sales, Review, 30 Nov 2011, GMT, London]

A comparison of his work with the Almagest shows that Copernicus was in many ways a Renaissance scientist rather than a revolutionary, because he followed Ptolemy's methods and even his order of presentation. In astronomy, the Renaissance of science can be said to have ended with the works of Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and Galileo Galilei (1564–1642).

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From Roman Emperor Constantine forward to the Renaissance and Copernicus, 1543, in spite of several passionately curious minds, Scientification has been religiously and socioculturally discouraged, disparaged (belittled) and denied.

The self-righteous, uneducated pause was finally accelerated by Einstein and the early 20th Century Scientific Revolution, that exploded following development of improved communication and development of sophisticated instrumentation.

Early 21st Century research and Science again exploded. Scientists identified many remarkable facts, the Hubble Space Telescope and an assortment of other telescopes and the CERN Hadron Collider. The following brief summary of examples.

Hawkings and Hartle Universe formation theory postulates that our Universe expanded from a single point and had no boundary. Appeared among the waves after an explosion. The beginning had space, but no time and had no beginning reason, cause or purpose and no seed for information transformation and encoding. Needless to say, the Hawking-Hartle Theory was met with enormous criticism.

This investigative reporter concluded the following summary following extensive meta-analysis. First and foremost, “Nothing comes from Nothing.” “Something always comes from Something.” Intelligent Information begets Intelligent Information.

The formation of Our Universe required Intelligent Creation and Design. Intelligent Design Creation empowered Creation of relic subatomic elementary-dualistic-energy-matter-particles, Higgs boson and Fermion.

Their descendant energy-matter-particles, empowered coherence, entanglement and encoding fundamental information processes and interactions, that were concluded to progressively interconnect everything in our Universe.

In addition, their descendant energy-matter-particles empowered Creation of special and atypical atoms I.e. at 2 minute to 20 minute Universe-age a temperature-ambient Energy Environment intervention facilitated Nucleosynthesis of Hydrogen (H2) that facilitated progression to CHNOPS atoms, with atomic numbers equal-to-or-less-than 16, and these 6 atoms are unquestionably necessary for all life on Earth.

Furthermore, Higgs boson and Fermion descendant energy-matter-particles empowered adaptation and evolution into the Scientificated matter-mass-materials, large celestial bodies, our Milky Way Galaxy, Solar System and eventually our Homo sapien-sapiens Species, modern-anatomical-walk-upright-on-2-feet-Human, equipped with a Quantum Brain Computer-like Brian encoded with a Human Neuroanatomical ‘God Module’, that can be evidenced with fMRI, Brain oxygen utilization, EEG, Neurotransmitters and other God Biomarkers, during Human subjects’ Spiritual, Religious and Meditation applications and practices.

Drs Hameroff and Penrose ORCH OR Research and Theory, which is Noble Prize echelon-1, satisfactorily explains Brain Neuron intercellular microtubules and their role in Consciousness. The God Module is one of the millions of Human Brain Consciousness NeuroNetworks. ORCH OR research has been Scientificated, peer reviewed, independently replicated and enhanced.

[Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose. Consciousness in the universe: A review of the ‘Orch OR’ theory. Physics of Life Reviews, 2013]
[Stuart Hameroff, MD, and Roger Penrose. Reply to criticism of the ‘Orch OR qubit’–‘Orchestrated objective reduction’ is scientifically justified. Physics of Life Reviews, 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.11.00]
[Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose. Consciousness in the universe. Physics of Life Reviews, 2013;]
[Elsevier. “Discovery of quantum vibrations in ‘microtubules’ inside brain neurons supports controversial theory of consciousness.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 January 2014.]
[Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose Neuroquantology, Vol 1, No 1, Hameroff 2003, DOI: 10.14704/nq.2003.1.1.3[
[Top SCIENTIST Dr. Stuart Hameroff AGREES with Deepak CHOPRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brnl15gUsBQ Oct 21, 2014 ]
[Anesthetic action links consciousness to quantum vibrations - S. Hameroff - talk by Stuart Hameroff, Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology Director, Center for Consciousness Studies Banner-University Medical Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 6/11/2018, Please see YouTube presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8_hlnFdWM ]
[CONSCIOUSNESS - A conversation with Deepak Chopra and Stuart Hameroff Jul 15, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erSd5xep30w ]

“What is science? We associate it with facts and experiments. Scientists organize facts in ways that provide insights into how the world around us works. Science brings us to a deeper understanding of natural phenomena.

“The scientific method is in theory well understood, and experts in a given field routinely evaluate the methods, results, and conclusions of research performed by “qualified personnel”—i.e., scientists—via regulatory evaluations and the process of peer review.

“Adding to the confusion, non-scientists who rely on scientific findings to promote a cause or argument frequently conflate association and causation. When a study finds an association, that means that two events or findings are merely correlated, while causation means that one event actually leads to another.

“The cock crowing when the sun rises are 2 two events that are associated, but one doesn’t cause the other.

“Divine Intelligent Design Creation were the origin of ‘Circular Causation’ for our Cybernetically Interconnected and Rotating Universe’. [Cybernetic Push-Pull Divine Intelligent Design Creation https://myscientistgod.us/cybernetics-of-creation]

Cybernetics is about having a goal and taking action to achieve that goal. Knowing whether you have reached your goal (or at least are getting closer to it) requires “feedback”, a concept that was made rigorous by cybernetics.

Cybernetics as a process operating in nature has been around for a long time; actually, for as long as nature has been around. Cybernetics as a concept in society has been around at least since Plato used it to refer to government.

In modern times, the term became widespread because Norbert Wiener wrote a book called “Cybernetics” in 1948. His sub-title was “control and communication in the animal and machine”.

This was important because it connects control (actions taken in hope of achieving goals) with communication (connection and information flow between the actor and the environment). A force must begin the circular feedback mechanism.

So, Wiener is pointing out that effective action requires communication. Later, Gordon Pask offered conversation as the core interaction of systems that have goals.

Wiener’s sub-title also states that both animals (biological systems) and machines (non-biological or “artificial” systems) can operate according to cybernetic principles. This was an explicit recognition that both living and non-living systems can have purpose. A scary idea in 1948.

Objects and organisms and molecules, matter, material and energy are not by themselves cognitive and informational. Objects and organisms are complex combinations of molecules, matter, material and energy that our Creator created. Proper equipment, artificial intelligence and robots might theoretically impersonate, objects and organisms, somewhat, but cannot replicate Human Brains and Minds.

"Subatomic Energy States(Higgs Energy Fields) and Molecules, Matter, Material (Fermion building block particles) alone cannot produce living organisms, intelligence and information and alone initiate the Universe cybernetic feedback mechanism and Interconnectedness. [http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html, ‘In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood’ by Dr. Walt Brown]

Nisargadatta Maharaj: "Causes and results are infinite in number and variety. Everything affects everything. In this Universe, when one thing changes, everything changes. Both science and spiritual and metaphysical teachings recognize that all things and events are interconnected, and part of a greater Whole.

“Information exchange is the key to understanding the evolution of the Universe. The origin of our Universe, in an extraordinarily ordered state, From its birth, [the universe] encoded the complete information and algorithmic instructions that ensured that all laws of physics pertaining to the behavior of energy-matter and that are described by quantum theory prevail universally and so enable it to exist as a unified entity.

"Such encoding and coherence also empowered the creation of elementary particles and the fundamental processes and interactions that progressively gave rise to stars, galaxies, and the evolution of ever-greater complexity and diversity. Information expressed as energy-matter, visible and dark, is both conserved and balances exactly to zero throughout its entire lifetime. Such conservation of information expressed as energy-matter on a universal basis is a statement of the first law of information.

The continually increasing entropic flow of information within space-time, rising to a maximum at the end of the lifetime of our Universe,The nature of time itself can even be considered as being the accumulated flow of informational entropy, The second law of information is that for relativity theory. The first law of information enables our Universe to exist; the second law enables it to evolve.” [THE INTERCONNECTED UNIVERSE, Interconnected world | SiOWfa15: Science in Our World ... https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/10/19/interconnected-world Oct 19, 2015 Nisargadatta Maharaj Spiritual Teachings and Interdependence]

Similar statements: Dr. Stuart Hameroff was invited to speak at a convention for atheists and agnostics to which he did not belong. Following comments, he also revealed that God’s ‘Interconnectedness’ has a specific home residing within each Human brain awaiting willful stimulation. Hameroff said he felt like the skunk in the room at an atheist convention, [La Jolla, Salk Institute, November 5-7, 2006 by Stuart Hameroff (Session 4), Post Conference Remarks - S. Hameroff]

Hameroff continued, "Most scientists and philosophers assume consciousness emerges from complex computation among brain neurons and synapses acting as indivisible bits, or information states, like a computer. Whereas, Penrose and Hameroff suggest that consciousness involves processes at deeper levels, specifically sequences of quantum computations (~40 per second) in structures called microtubules inside brain neurons.{{aka NeuroBioPhysicsology-mbmsrmd}}

Hameroff said, "The quantum computations we propose link to neuronal-level activities, and are also ripples in fundamental spacetime geometry, the most basic level of the Universe. One implication of our model relates to a possible scientific basis for secular spirituality (unrelated to any organized religious approach). "Hameroff said, spirituality implies: God’s ‘Interconnectedness’ among living beings and the Universe and a ubiquitous reservoir of cosmic intelligence/platonic values in touch with our conscious choices and perceptions.

In a 1996 paper, Penrose and Hameroff further suggested that the precursors of conscious experience were also embedded in Planck scale geometry. He said, "In our theory, conscious choices and perceptions are affected by this universal Platonic information which Penrose termed non-computable influence. Hameroff likened such proposed influence on conscious choices to “following the way of the Tao”, or “Divine guidance”.

Conscious existence after death: In Hameroff's view, consciousness occurs at the level of Planck scale geometry amplified to quantum coherence and computation in brain microtubules. When metabolic requirements for quantum coherence in brain microtubules are lost (e.g. death, near-death), quantum information pertaining to that individual may persist and remain entangled in Planck scale geometry.[Being the skunk at an atheist convention, La Jolla, Salk Institute, November 5-7, 2006 by Stuart Hameroff (Session 4), Post Conference Remarks - S. Hameroff]"

“Non-scientists are likely to be fooled or manipulated by such claims because scientific illiteracy is widespread. U.S. citizens are drastically undereducated.

“At least a reasonable amount of scientific literacy is important for citizens. As the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s primer observed: “It is imperative that policy-makers, the media, and the general public are able to distinguish the facts from mere interpretations of a biased constituency.

“Lawmakers and those who inform them must be able to judge the quality of the science and reasoning that supports a position and must know whether a set of scientific findings is really meaningful to a decision.”

“However, even when the science is sound and the data are “meaningful,” politicians and government officials commonly ignore them, often in the cause of bureaucratic empire-building, advancing some ideological goal, or capitulating to activists.

When Miller was an official at the Food and Drug Administration, he once heard an administration undersecretary of agriculture, who previously had headed an anti-technology advocacy group, deconstruct Science: “You can have ‘your’ Science or ‘my’ Science or ‘somebody else’s’ Science.

“By nature, there is going to be a difference.” Translation: “I don’t care about data or the consensus in the Scientific community. My opinions are just as valid.”

“The beauty of the Scientific method, when correctly investigated, is that it protects us from ideology and bias, and helps us understand what is true and what really works. At its best, Science can inform sound public policy. But when we ignore or misinterpret Science, we move backwards toward a time when irrationality and superstition prevailed.

“A 2001 study sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation found
· only ~ 50% of Citizens surveyed understood that the Earth circles the Sun once a year
· only 45 % could give an “acceptable definition” of DNA
· only 22 % understood what a molecule was.
· More recent research by Jon Miller, Professor of Integrative Studies at Michigan State University, found that 70 %of Americans cannot understand the science section of the New York Times.

Such widespread Scientific Illiteracy has an impact on policy. In Dick Taverne 2005 book The March of Unreason, British polymath warned, “in the practice of Medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens Science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our Democracy.”

“Taverne found evidence of such irrationality in significant opposition to important products and technologies such as vaccines, nuclear power, and genetic engineerin and in the embrace of herbal dietary supplements and organic foods. [Scientifically Illiterate America by Henry I. Miller, November 29, 2017, Hoover Institution]

Biblical acts to cure, mend, restore and make well are evidenced by the number of times the word Heal occurs in the KJV of the Holy bible. Heal occurs 40 times in 39 verses. Healing occurs 14 times in 13 verses and Healed occurs 79 times in 77 verses in the KJV of the Holy bible.

The Reverence for Creation and Healing Science and Spiritual Holiness are the 2 Pillars of Wellness ('Cleanliness’) and ‘Cleanliness’ is next to Godliness.

Our God is a Scientific and Spiritual Creator. Our God Created Nature (Genesis 1:3). “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”

Then God Created Cognitive Humans in His Likeness. (Genesis 1:26) 26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Scientificated Spiritual Unity is a unified and undivided wholeness, transmitted immediately into the beginning of our Universe after the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago. Science and Spirituality are 1 inseparable unit of Godliness.

Because ‘seeing is believing’, the best example, Jesus, who was positioned strategically and visibly on Earth, demonstrated the Power and Magnificence of God.

Mathew 10:1 "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease."

The meaning of Mathew 10:1 is obvious. With omniscient powers from our God of Truth, God endowed the disciples with the same callings as Jesus, meaning the practices of Healing, Science and Spirituality, because our Creator is a Gracious Healer, Scientist and Spiritual God.

Consequently, physically and spiritually ailing Humans should never be attended by uncertain sorcerers with emotional, superstitious, supernatural magic and palm readings of a magician, a wizard, charmer with ‘lay gut feelings’ for treatments. Of course, those untrained, in the place of trained professionals would be detrimental.

If a person is seriously injured, Scientifically Educated persons will call Emergency Medical Services (EMS), qualified hospitals, scientists and medical doctors, as our Almighty God Intelligently designed.

Refet Ramiz research evaluated past theories and perspectives behind the definitions, branches and types of Science.

Ramiz defined ideal political construction, R-Philosophy, R-Religion, R-Science, and other definitions and disciplines and proposed that all living forms are “related” with R-Philosophy, R-Religion, R-Science, and others.

This relation is defined with ideal political construction for all the world countries (Ramiz 2015; Ramiz April 2016), New Philosophy perspective, New Era Philosophy, with Ideal Philosophical System, new administration system(s), new disciplines, new values, theories, methods, concepts and others, which are related with the 21 dimensions of the R-Synthesis.

“Some of these values are partly explained here; some others like R-Religion are defined by the author more generally and specifically in other article (Ramiz 2016; other). Author also defined good and/or correct perspective that must be behind administration(s) in other work (Ramiz March 2016).

“It is possible to evaluate the subjects due to the perspective behind the related action(s), for example, as scientific, or non-scientific, or corrupted. With this respect, author considered some of the following perspectives to define the sciences, and/or to express the content or purpose of Science (in alphabetic order): (1) centralized science, (2) commercialized science, (3) central science, (4); ideological science, (5) militarized science, (6) nationalized science, (7) philosophical science, (8) political science, (9) politicized science, (10) scientific agriculture, (11) scientific commerce, (12) scientific community, (13) scientific justice, (15) scientific integration, (17) scientific progression, (18) scientificated military, (19) scientificated politics, (20) religious science, (21) science that is made religious, (22) scientific ideology, (23) scientific politics, (24) scientific support, (26) scientificated social values, (28) scientificated subjects of services, (29) scientificated ethnic origin, (30) scientificated integration, (31) scientificated politics, (32) scientificated sport, (33) scientificated social values, (34) scientific tourism, (35) scientific security, (36) scientific administration, (37) socialized science, (38) scientific system, (39)

Categories that mostly apply to this publication are Scientific Education, (14)Scientific Health, (16) Scientific Religion, (25) Scientificated Religion, (27) [Ramiz] Scientificated Spirituality, Scientificated Religiousness, Scientificated Meditation, Scientificated Medicine, Scientificated Education [mbmsrmd] and others.

“With this respect, purpose of science can be considered as positive or negative in one point of view. Author defined that some possible positive purposes can be defined as, to discover, use, apply, control, inspect, observe, progress, quality, performance, protect, hybrid, identification, problem solution, production, transportation, security, health, service, energy, standardization, communication, recording/storage, design, prove, values, reproduce, productivity, understanding, calculating, balancing, others.

“Some possible negative purposes of science can be considered as to destroy, or to make corruption. Each of these possible purposes of science can be evaluated due to 8-basic senses generally/specifically for different subjects.

Ramiz defined that good scientists must be judicious, being objective, have good and/or correct ethics, principles, sense of justice, and consider all subjects in some manner. Ramiz defined the following theories, discipline, new perspective, and philosophies in the next sections to express the good and/or correct perspective for the definition of sciences, and branches of sciences: (i) constructional and/or complementary theories, (ii) R-Science as one of the major effective discipline for a country and for the world, (iii) the new perspective for the philosophy, (iv) New Era Philosophy, (v) Ideal Philosophical System, (vi) new and re-constructed philosophy of science, (vii) new perspective for the philosophy of science, (viii) basic theories of science, (ix) major sciences due to new basic philosophy branches, (x) basic components of each science branch, (xi) new or re-constructed definition of science and branches of science. [Philosophy Study, July 2016, Vol. 6, No. 7, 377-416 doi: 10.17265/2159-5313/2016.07.001 New Perspective for the Philosophy of Science: Re-Construction and Definition of New Branches & Hierarchy of Sciences by Refet Ramiz]

Knowledgeable persons will pray, trust, have faith-in and are certain about prayer and the science of EMS, qualified hospitals, scientists and medical doctors, as our Almighty God Intelligently designed.

Our Almighty God provided sunlight for Humans to see and abide in, a burning bush for Moses, a ship for Noah, a cross for Christians and provides Mayo Clinic, numerous other excellent hospitals, qualified healthcare professionals, a laboratory for Dr. Fauci and intelligence for Humans to think, discern and pray.

God wisely differentiates between Human needs and desires. Our Almighty God wisely provides Humans, who willfully worship and obey, with physical and spiritual blessings and the ability to Scientificate Spirituality, Religious and Meditation Practices.

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FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS, WHY NOT CALL A MAGICIAN OR WIZARD?

When an Emergency Occurs, Scientifically Educated Persons Do Not Rely On Magicians and Wizards.

"Science is any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws. [Encyclopedia Britannica]

"Scientific knowledge requires networks of intellectual information and dependence i.e. trust. By extension we can also speak of placing Intellectual trust on instruments of measurement, observation and computation, as we are similarly dependent on them in the context of discovery as well as justification. Evidence of their reliability is usually known by a number of experts and others rely on their testimony.

"The progress of scientific inquiry requires that we tentatively trust and act by scientific statements that are well tested, peer-reviewed and reported on current standards, reliable references, unless and until we discover signs indicating otherwise. [Trust and criticism in science, Part I: Critical rationalism instead of organized skepticism]

Recently, in the United States of America, reputable, world-renowned Scientists, Doctors and the disciplines of Science and Medicine have 'taken a hit' and have been subjected to lay criticism, concerning the diagnosis and management of COVID-19. This report is a discussion of that criticism.

To begin, the following is a very brief overview of the trust in important policy examples, when sports injury emergencies are managed in the state of Kentucky during the COVID-19 pandemic, September 2020 : “KRS 160.445,

Each Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) member school shall develop a venue specific, Emergency Action plan to deal with serious injuries and acute medical conditions in which the condition of the patient may deteriorate rapidly.” Each detailed plan shall Include information for contacting on site or nearby EMS medical personnel or school medical staff, include all on-site emergency equipment locations and access procedures; all licensed/certified athletic trainers, first responders, coaches, school nurses, athletic directors and volunteers for interscholastic athletics; medical facility address logistics including GPS coordinates for transportation, provide medical coverage during games, practices or other events.

Scientifically Educated and Knowledgeable persons understand who the reliable, trustworthy and specially trained Medical Personnel are, who should care for sports related injuries and disease.

Unexpectedly for some considèrents, Medical, Surgical and COVID-19 patients and Psychological and Spiritually Distressed Patients are similar:

Because all 5 patient Groups’ outcomes could become disastrous or become improved with the proper care.
all 5 patient Groups’ require competent Doctors and Healthcare Personnel for treatments. That is true and trustworthy without mention.

In addition, Scientific Research found regular and special spiritual, religiousness, meditation and prayer practices were important adjuncts to health https://myscientistgod.us/religious-health-benefits

To be clear from the beginning, for Christians 1. spiritual, religiousness, meditation and prayer practices, belief-in and obedience to God are key, 2. with or without the supernatural stories, the virgin birth and resurrection of Jesus,, 1. is the most important of the 2. Some will disagree. But all should agree, it is about God.

“A point to be made here is that, even if one doubts the conclusion concerning the actual date and specific location of the resurrection of Jesus, there is still an excellent foundation for this data being early and apostolic in nature, and hence authoritative, by their accounts. but there is no way of knowing the exact history of Jesus." [ Dr. Ben Witherington III , world renown expert on the History of Jesus, Asbury Theological Seminary]

“We conclude that this pre-Pauline report of Jesus' resurrection appearances and the attendant data clearly link the eyewitness content of the gospel with its later proclamation, and all of the evidence thus far shows that the participants and apostles actually did see the alive, risen Jesus, both individually and in groups. No one witnessed the exact arising of Jesus; just later, the live Jesus. B. The Visual Nature of Jesus 9 Appearances One major advantage

[Jesus' Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism : an Apologetic (part II)

January 1989 by Gary R. Habermas, ResearchGate]

October 1, 2015, the new ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure code for Spiritual and Religious Counseling is 271.81 began. Now Doctors and consultants can submit statements for reimbursement for patient counseling.

This is the reason: Most physicians agree with spiritual healing used adjunctively with the contemporary standard of medical care. The addition of spiritual healing to the practice of medicine is for real.

Research found regular and special spiritual, religious, meditation and prayer practices were important health Benefits:

increased longevity
lessening the duration of a disease process
improved health and wellness
less drug addition
less alcoholism
less anxiety and depression
decreased blood pressure and pulse rate
improved heart health
and many other health improvements including HIV. [Planate] 128] [The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer 2012][ How God Changes Your Brain, Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman Mar 2008] [Preparing Sacred Space: Practicing Spiritual Disciplines With Brain in Mind Edward Davis Psy. D.+ Pastor Jim Laffoon] [Eutopia, Whistle While You Work http://www.eutopia.website by Micheal B. Minix, Sr., M.D.] [Final Stage of Creation http://www.godmindcreations.com/ by Micheal B. Minix, Sr., M.D., F.I.C.S.]

Be advised, All Medical, Surgical, COVID-19, Psychological and Spiritually Distressed Patients, in addition to competent Doctors and Healthcare Personnel for treatments, should include regular and special spiritual, religious, meditation and prayer practice and manifest Godliness.

All 5 patient Groups’ require competent Doctors and Healthcare Personnel for treatments and similarly, will benefit with regular and special spiritual, religious, meditation and prayer practice and Godliness, for God’s Truth, Medicine and Science.

Conversely, all 5 patient Groups’ should never be attended by uncertain sources with emotional, superstitious, supernatural magic and palm readings of a magician, sorcerer, wizard, charmer or ‘lay gut feeling’ treatments. Those of course are detrimental.

Because ‘seeing is believing’, Let us look at the best example, who was positioned strategically and visibly on Earth:

Mathew 10:1 "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease."
The meaning of Mathew 10:1 is obvious. With omniscient powers from our God of Truth, God endowed the disciples with the same callings as Jesus, meaning the practices of Healing, Science and Spirituality, because our Creator is a Gracious Healer, Scientist and Spiritual God.

If a person is seriously injured, Scientifically Educated persons will call Emergency Medical Services (EMS), as our Almighty Intelligently designed, not a magician, to transport the patient for trauma therapy to a hospital with credentialed Doctors because Scientifically Literate Humans trust, have faith-in and are certain about the science of hospitals and medical doctors.

Concomitantly, Scientifically Literate Christians and most other believers and doubtful will pray to God, because of the same trust, faith and certainty.

Knowledgeable persons will pray, trust, have faith-in and are certain about prayer and the science of hospitals and medical doctors.

Scientifically Educated persons and most other common sense Humans do not have trust, faith and certainty in magical medical and superstitious treatments and do not rely on a 'magical savior', steeped in the supernatural and superstition, under those circumstances.

According to scientists, modern neurology research reveals that prayer and spiritual consultation are important adjunct therapies to medical and surgical therapy for sickness, injury and death, and adjunctly the first line of defense. Most patients, doctors and scientists have trust, faith and certainty in God and God’s medical disciples, not magicians, mysterious and supernatural ghosts.

For example, the "Holy Ghost" was first recorded biblically in Mat 1:18 King James version of the Holy Bible, but not in its old testament. The “Holy Ghost” was not intended to be ghostly as Christianity expanded.

In the beginning of its use, “Ghost” was perhaps a misnomer or mistranslated. The etymology of "Holy Ghost" indicates the term should be Holy Spirit, allegorically. The etymology follows: "Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), back to Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist . The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest."

EMS, doctors and the health care community usually seek a hospital chaplain, or equivalent, for spiritual and religious intervention, not a soothsayer and a sorcerer.

Scarcely ever will a CEO search for a wizard or a charmer to design a new building for an metropolitan expansion project, because humans trust and have faith in the science and mathematics of architects.

Never will a military strategist, in his or her right mind, confer with a fortune teller or shaman to calculate the trajectory of a missile during war, because humans have trust, faith and certainty in scientists and physicists.

Only by mistake will a pregnant mother consult a genie or a 'witch doctor' to deliver her baby, because humans have trust, faith and certainty in the science of obstetricians. Childbirth is not like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

Childbirth is, and if not, should be a sanctimonious procedure Created by God and conducted by His educated Doctor and Health Care disciples, when possible. [Reference: CHNOPS MOROWITZ ORGANISMS https://myscientistgod.us/chnops-morowitz-organisms]

Physicians dependably take the Oath of Hippocrates: The Modern “Hippocratic Oath was written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today and references God.

“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God, but obey God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.”

'Spiritual and Scientific Wellness ('Cleanliness’) are Interconnected

NeuroNetworks for Spiritual Wellness and worship and obedience to God

Neurophysiologically innervate and generate →

NeuroNetworks for Physical Wellness and excellent Human health which are Educated Scientific and often Medical (a type of Science) behaviors →
which innervate and generate round-around Spiritual and Physical Wellness, cybernetic, push-pull biological cycles, that repeat themselves over-and-over-again.
therefore ( :. ) 'Spiritual and Scientific Wellness are next to Godliness'

All of this report’s adaptation, evolution, preparation, education and history are not “magic”, but descend from Divine Intelligent Design with intention, cause, purpose and reason.

Files coming soon.

Science Will explain everything AS INSTRUMENTATION IMPROVES

The question is: Will Science Eventually Explain Everything ? Not: Can Science Explain Everything? Reference: [Can science explain everything ? July 13, 2010 DebateWise]

Reference explains the Yes and No’s for the question. This reporter argues that the question should be ‘Will Science Eventually Explain Everything '?

Yes is the answer, because SCIENCE WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AS INSTRUMENTATION IMPROVES. Everything has not been explained, but will be explained Scientifically, when modern instrumentation improves, including even more extremely high-powered telescopes and their sophisticated descriptions and then instruments are designed and arise to the occasion and Eventually they will be.

Only the Yes answers from [DebateWise] are included here, because the wrong question has been asked. For the complete story please sea the reference.

“Some people argue that Science can answer any question we have about the universe. Others argue that Science is unable to settle questions such as whether God exists and what consciousness is. Science might not yet have answered these questions, but that does not mean it never will. SCIENCE WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AS INSTRUMENTATION IMPROVES.

“All the Yes points:
Everything occurs for a reason; science discovers these reasons
The whole point of science is to explain exerything
The observer, or the originator?
an explanation with no criteria of itself is synonomous with no explanation
All the No points:
Science is man made – man is not perfect therefore Science cannot answer everything
The Human Race would lose it’s intellectual motivation if it (we) knew everything
where did the original matter come from?
Science can explain most but not all.
Everything occurs for a reason; Science discovers these reasons

Repeating the appropriate question again: 'Will Science Eventually Explain Everything ?'

“Yes is the answer, because Everything-in and including-our-Universe had and continues to have a cause and a reason and Science, from the intended outset, was and is the method that was Created for explaining why our-Universe and everything within has happened.

Science is based on repetitive, consistent, fact-based-evidence, our Creator's Information and Intelligently Designed Codes. There is no agreement on the definition for religion. However, everyone agrees religion is based on personal beliefs.

If they cannot be proved, then evidence for them can be suggested. For example, there are many sources of evidence for the ‘Big Bang’ (the beginning of the Universe), such as the abundance of Hydrogen and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (just to name a few), yet Scientists cannot actually prove that this was the beginning of the Universe, as obviously, we cannot rewind time. This means that science can only take educated guesses, supplying proof, in regards to some things.

“While Science has not PROVED Everything, it CAN make educated theories, Will Science Eventually Explain Everything? is based on similar scientific studies, as to why things occur. This is why a large majority of Science is theoretical, because Scientific equipment is not yet advanced enough to allow us to prove everything. However, technology (and therefore Science) is rapidly improving and expanding each year; it is only a matter of time.

For Example: 'Spiritual and Scientific Cleanliness' are Interconnected
NeuroNetworks for Spiritual Cleanliness and worship and obedience to God
Neurophysiologically innervate and generate →
NeuroNetworks for Physical Cleanliness and excellent Human health and wellness
which are Educated Scientific and often Medical (a type of Science) behaviors →
which innervate and generate
round-around Spiritual and Physical Cleanliness, cybernetic, push-pull biological cycles, that repeat themselves over-and-over-again.
therefore ( :. ) 'Spiritual and Scientific Cleanliness are next to Godliness'

RECENTLY THE MOST POWERFULLY SIGNIFICANT VALUABLE DISCOVERY

What is the most recent, powerfully significant, valuable and timely Scientific Discovery from fact-based evidence ?

Science discoveries are only limited by insufficiency of the most modern instrumentation. Human Minds are perfectly capable of postulating new discoveries and measuring forthcoming data, given up-to-date instrument measurements.

Many Scientifically Literate, legendary people i.e. Benjamin Franklin (1706 –1790), President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) , Cicely Mary Strode Saunders OM DBE FRCS FRCP FRCN (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005), Michael Pravica, Ph.D., and many others are extremely well-educated, religious and pious men and women.

As instrumentation improves and if life on Earth survives long enough Science will prove Everything.

"Did Quantum Physics and esteemed, prestigious Scientists and Doctors recently prove there is really life after death? And a quantum code for all living beings? It’s a thought-provoking subject!" [Quantum Physics May Have Proved There Is Life After Death And There Is A Quantum Code For All Living Beings, Cynthia McKanzie, MessageToEagle.com]

Electroencephalographic surges (ELES) that last up to 300 seconds in some deceased patients, after pronounced dead, were experimentally found to occur after the loss of blood pressure, when the Human heart stopped beating, [ C13 268 End of Life Electrical Surges: Current State of the Science Lakhmir S. Chawla (George Washington University Medical Ctr., Washington, DC,)] [Penrose, Hameroff, Chopra]

Many other respected, associated with honored research groups, concluded Electroencephalographic surges (ELES) represent liberation of the Human Souls’ 40-120 Hertz gamma waves.

Einstein's well-known Energy Law states that Energy never dies and can only be transformed from one Energy form to another Energy form. [Einstein]

All Human Physical Bodies decease (expire, die), slowly deteriorate and disintegrate gradually, but the Human Sanctified Soul’s ‘Spiritual Quantum Energy Field’ is immediately surrounded by an Afterworld, which is either finite or infinite, (the only 2 possibilities).

The ‘Human Sanctified Soul’s ‘Spiritual Quantum Energy Field’ is immediately ushered-into and surrounded by the Infinite Eternal Afterworld, ~2 to 5 minutes after death, which has been well documented by many renowned Scientists. The ‘Soul’s Spiritual Quantum Field’ continues into the Infinite Eternal Afterworld, if Humans have willfully believed-in, worshiped and been obedient to God.

The Asteroid that struck as quick as a bolt of lightning, in a split second, like a flash, 66 million years ago obliterated Earth and began the Dinosaur Extinction Period.

The 2nd most powerfully significant, destructive world event can strike anytime, catastrophically at the speed of light. If our Scorched-Earth were to be total, by a horrendous explosive event, the Human Sanctified Soul’s ‘Spiritual Quantum Energy Field’ no matter the physical world’s devastation, will not be destroyed, but only transformed and continue in God’s Afterworld Eternity.

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Will Science Eventually Explain Everything? [mbmsrmd]

Science facilitates composing accurate legislation, (especially about abortion) and Science facilitates governance, executing athletic assignments, hitting a baseball, manufacturing everything from televisions to microwaves for popcorn, repairing damaged automobiles, black-topping highways, delivering babies, influenza immunizations, space explorations, playing musical instruments, understanding climate change, Science of nuclear bombs and the complete knowledge of whale migration, church building architecture and construction, printing hymnals, COVID-19 prevention and everything daily that Humans do and encounter.

Sensory Stimuli enable the Human brain and Mind to witness and perceive ‘some-things’. The Human Mind explains the answers to ‘some-things’ that Scientists have been able to explain and witness to this date with thinking, reasoning, calculating, speaking, memorizing, and coordinated-and-balanced-movements, physically-doing, breathing air, digesting food, circulating blood, growth and development and temperature control by living ‘other-things’. Reading, mathematics, chemistry etc. require cognition, when explained Scientifically.

For some, not this reporter, whatever Reality is; Everything Science has, will explain what Reality is.

People are challenged to name ‘some-thing’ that Scientific details cannot explain. Take a moment and Think about it.

So how is it, that most religions and their religious followers and nonreligious people, atheists and agnostics, (indeed an odd allegiance and coalition),
want Humans to deny that our God of Truth is both a Scientist and Spiritual Creator,
and deny the Science of His Divine Intelligent Design of all the Codes, Constants, Rules and Laws of Nature Utilized in Universe Creation
and most religions and their religious people are not reconciled with Science
and argue with fact-based Scientific Semantics and Explanations?

The answer appears to be that most religions and their religious followers are fascinated-with and believe-in their emotional, superstitious, supernatural, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, antiquated and primitive ministry, teachings and principles, that most religions and their religious followers financially sponsor.

Persons have followed one form or other of the antiquated and primitive ministry, teachings and principles since the Nicene Council and Roman Emperor Constantine politically decided the complexion of the religion to be practiced after they legislated and canonized the Holy bible 325AD.

But the Nicene Council and Roman Emperor Constantine's Christianization, conquest and conquer, worked and brought all Roman Empire constituents together under one roman Christian flag. That was good, because morality, civility and law and order prevailed.

And non-religious people, atheists and agnostics side with the antiquated and primitive religions (indeed an odd allegiance and coalition). They not only reject Scientifically Educated Christians and reject God and Jesus altogether.

Unfortunately, Most religions and their religious followers are Scientifically uneducated, but able to ‘get-their-head-around’ and financially sponsor, the fundamental ‘milk’ of religious learning, the emotional, superstitious, supernatural, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, antiquated and primitive religious ministry, teachings and principles.

They are Stuck at that level, but properly practiced, at that level, the antiquated and primitive religious ministry, teachings and principles, is satisfactorily rewarding for them. The complaint is with the Scientifically uneducated, who should not act to disparage others, who seek God's Truth, the Scientific, NeuroBioPhysicsological Explanations for Everything. Everyone is free to worshiop as they are comfortable. there is not just a 'one and only way'.

If emotional, superstitious, supernatural, unrealistic, antiquated and primitive teachings and principles, the fundamental ‘milk’ of religious learning, are the religious limits for some uneducated people, so be it. But anyone denying God’s Truth for others and prohibiting advanced Scholars’ Discernment, as Biblically described, are sacrilegious and irreverent and when verbally derogatory, blasphemous and when physical, desecrationous.

Imagine how many million Christians suffered and died during the Religious Wars, 1525 - 1648, in the name of Jesus and for the ‘best and most appropriate way to practice Christianity.’ Hopefully, Christians will not battle other Christians because they disagree on colors, songs, sepulchers, bibles, rituals, etc. yet worship God and praise Jesus. God will be the judge of what is in the individual's heart not on his back, on his head, in his arms or mindfully simple or complex when taught.

SCIENCE WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AS INSTRUMENTATION IMPROVES. Devastating Religious Wars and disagreements will be prevented with Scientific elucidations and improved Neurotheological and NeuroBioPhysicsological education.

“The Thirty Years' War was a religious and geopolitical war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It resulted in the deaths of over 8 million people, including 20% of the German population, making it one of the most destructive conflicts in human history.[17][14] Initially a war between the Protestant and Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a general European war, involving most of the great powers. The war, and the smaller wars it produced, became less about religion and more of a continuation of the French–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence, and a Habsburg attempt to rebuild imperial authority in Germany.[18]

“The war was instigated by the election of Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor, a staunch Catholic who tried to impose religious uniformity on his domains. In response, the Protestant states of northern Germany formed the Protestant Union to defend their interests. Tensions grew until the Defenestration of Prague (1618), when Bohemian Protestants threw the Emperor's representatives out of a window. The Bohemians then elected the Protestant Frederick V, Elector Palatine, as the new king of the Kingdom of Bohemia. The Catholic states of southern Germany, led by Bavaria, formed the Catholic League to help the Emperor restore his authority in Bohemia. The Bohemian Revolt was crushed in the Battle of White Mountain (1620), and the Protestant Union dissolved in 1621. Protestant resistance was crushed at the Battle of Stadtlohn (1623), ending the Palatine phase of the Thirty Years' War.

“The decisive Catholic victory would not last, as other Protestant countries entered the war to defend their brethren in Germany. Protestant Denmark intervened unsuccessfully in 1625–1630. The Protestant cause was then taken up by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, with the financial support of France. Although the Bourbon Kings of France were Catholic, their main rivals for European leadership were the Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. Initial Swedish successes brought them deep into Catholic territory in southern Germany, but Swedish fortunes ebbed after Gustavus Adolphus was killed at the Battle of Lützen (1632). France then entered the war directly on the Protestant side in 1635. What had begun as a rebellion against Habsburg authority in Bohemia had expanded into a general European war.

“The Thirty Years' War devastated entire regions, resulting in high mortality from hunger and disease. Campaigning armies and mercenaries funded themselves by looting or by exacting contributions from the inhabitants of occupied territories, imposing severe hardships on the populace. The war also bankrupted most of the combatant powers. Finally, the exhausted combatants negotiated the Peace of Westphalia (1648), putting an end to the overlapping conflicts. The rise of Bourbon France, the curtailing of Habsburg ambition, and the ascendancy of Sweden as a Great Power created a new balance of power on the continent. The Dutch Republic also secured Spanish recognition of its independence after an 80-year revolt, leading to the Dutch Golden Age.”

Humans should always be encouraged, when they worship God alone, obey the Word of God alone and praise Jesus and/or their teacher for teaching them how to worship God. For God is Almighty and has some-thing and some-way for everyone. God seeks no sponsor. With willful Allegiance and obedience to God, All things are possible.

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Pillars underpin Obedience and Belief in God

When the general public hears the word Science in the same conversation with their religion, they get bumfuzzled and sometimes irate, oddly enough. Difficult to imagine how anyone could denounce life-birthing and lifesaving professions and systems, particularly when life-birthing and lifesaving were administered to the denouncer's family.

Science wasn't a concern and not a competition for religions until the publication 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' (Astronomy:On the revolutions of the celestial spheres) written in 1530 and published May 1543. by Nicholas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik), born in what is now Poland on February 19, 1473. Copernikcus' book was the beginning of Science, that has evolved into the monumental scholarship we know today.

The bumfuzzlement reportedly began with Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633. Galileo was prosecuted for his support of heliocentrism, the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System. In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, among them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. In 1992 the Catholic Church vindicated Galileo:[81] What a tragedy !

So Galileo, our Solar System and Science got a deplorable raw prosecution and miscarriage of justice and Science continues to suffer at the hands of some religions' injustice today.

Single-issue voters were about 16 % in most recent Gallop Poll. Now Black Lives Matter is forging ahead Abortion. But when illness, urgency, emergency, broken bones, cancer, need for surgery and sick child care emerge, people in the U.S. insist on the nearest best hospital, which often has a religious affiliation.

Patients are non-religious-choice and matter-of-fact, but certainly not political and not single voter influenced and Black Lives Matter and Abortion are not most important, when under medical duress seeking the nearest, best hospital.

99.9% Patients with a life or death issue won’t refuse care at a Christian hospital, as didn’t refuse the healing care of Jesus during his time. [ He needed a gender-affirming procedure. The hospital said no.

As rural hospitals shutter, and faith-based care grows, “religious refusals” are leaving some patients without options. By S.E. Smith Updated Nov 1, 2019,]

99.9% Patients with a life or death issue won’t refuse care at a nearby Christian hospital, whose PILLARS of Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual care UNDERPIN praise of Jesus and OBEDIENCE AND BELIEF IN GOD and underpin the excellent care by the Christian or ecumenical hospital.

Single issue voters ‘bite their nose off in spite of their disgrace’, Particularly when their community hospital recently closed because of insufficient government and populace support.

Why are there so many Religiously affiliated hospitals ?Because the command of Christians and all religions is to heal the sick. For example, Jesus sent out his twelve disciples saying "...Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. (Matthew 10-8)

“Caring for the sick is the Right Thing To Do. Caring for the sick meant “taking care of someone while they died” and helping someone get better”. This tighter association of sickness with death probably lent itself to religious involvement.” [John Dougherty, Quora]

1 of every 6 hospital beds in the U.S. is in a Religiously Affiliated Hospital [The American Civil Liberties Union and MergerWatch May 5, 2016] and the number of Religiously Affiliated Hospital beds is rapidly increasing because religions are in quest of every hospital they can acquire because of their OBEDIENCE AND BELIEF IN GOD, single issue voters, politics and insufficient government support.

All Religious Administrations and Executive Councils are Scientifically Educated and believe the pillars for Belief-in and Obedience-to God, Jesus and their messiahs, if applicable. For seeing Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spirituality is believing. Scientifically Educated decisions count, when important solutions matter.

The following are just a few hospital names associated with religions: Mercy, Adventist, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Ascension. Christ, Jewish, Beth Israel, Blessing, St. Joseph, St Luke, Christus, Good Samaritan, Holly Cross, Mount Sinai, Our Lady 0f, Peace, Sacred Heart, St., Saint, Trinity, Via Christi,

In years to come most hospitals will become Religiously Affiliated Hospitals, “because caring for the sick by the Scientifically and Medically Educated is the Right Thing To Do.”

For example, when witnessing and Seeing the sick, lame, blind and others improve, become well and healthy, the eyewitnesses became very thankful, after the administration by Jesus of the Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual care, which reinforced the eyewitnesses' obedience-to and believing-in God. Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual Care were powerful Jesus messages, conformations and the pillars for Obedience and Belief in God. God's message was and is more remarkable when Jesus was and nowadays Doctors, Nurses and other healthcare providers are seen doing, rather than just heard.

Hospitals are an industry that Churches respect and support.
There is no legal or philosophical separation of Church and Hospitals.
Otherwise stated; no separation of Church and the “the Right Things To Do”;
there is no separation of Church Religious Policies and Hospital certifications;
no separation of the pillars for Belief-in and Obedience-to God,
which matter and which are Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spirituality, and Jesus on Earth.

“When Humans die, there is Quantum Death of Human Cells. Those Cells before death carried the Human Soul’s Quantum Information, that existed living in the Human Body's Brain Neuron Cells’ Microtubules. [Quantum Death –“Human Cells Carry Quantum Information That Exists as a Soul”, Mar 14, 2020 in Cosmology, The Daily Galaxy, https://dailygalaxy.com/2020/03/quantum-death-human-cells-carry-quantum-information-that-exists-as-a-soul-weekend-feature/ ]

Einstein's well known Energy Law states that Energy never dies and can only be transformed from one Energy form to another Energy form. [Einstein]

"Did quantum physics recently prove there is really life after death? Is there a quantum code for all living beings? It’s a thought-provoking and highly controversial subject, worth exploring further!"

Albert Einstein began the explanation 100 years ago. Einstein declared, "Energy cannot be destroyed, but only transformed from one form to another."
Quantum physics laws tell us that ‘life” is not made of matter but of vibrations that escape time and space.
Einstein wrote in a condolence letter upon the death of his close friend, Michele Besso, in 1955 “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.“ maybe to a Parallel Universe.
Robert Lanza, M.D, scientist, theoretician, and author of “Biocentrism” – How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe thinks there are many reasons why we won’t die.
To Lanza, death is not the end, as so many of us think. We believe we will die because that is what we have been taught, Robert Lanza says in his book.
Lanza’s Biocentrism theory is based on his idea that our definition of death is simply an illusion created by our consciousness.
A Quantum Code For All Living Beings
Lanza’s theory has gained attention and support from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.
Some scientists have suggested that quantum mechanics predicts some version of “life after death.”
They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.
[Quantum Physics May Have Proved There Is Life After Death And There Is A Quantum Code For All Living Beings, Cynthia McKanzie, MessageToEagle.com

During many different peer-reviewed research investigations, conducted by many different Scientists, after many Humans were pronounced dead and after the EEG had ceased, the EEG surged-back-up after significant time had lapsed and called: Electroencephalographic surges (ELES)

Dr's Hameroff and Penrose in their ORCH OR Theory and many other scientific experts have concluded that Human Gamma Wave e-Souls, previously stored in the microtubules of the Human Brain Soul’s Neuro-Network, at death are emancipated from Human Brain Microtubules as depicted and observed with multiple EEG experiments, with certainty confirmed by many scientists, within the first 2 minutes following physical Human death
Electroencephalographic surges (ELES) were experimentally found to occur after the loss of blood pressure and heart stops and last up to 300 seconds in some patients after pronounced dead, [ C13 268 End of Life Electrical Surges: Current State of the Science Lakhmir S. Chawla (George Washington University Medical Ctr., Washington, DC,)] [Penrose, Hameroff, Chopra]
Scientists conclude ELES represent liberation of Human Souls gamma waves 40-120 Hertz
Human death and Human Souls’ liberation occur within the Universe Spacetime Reality Cones and then Human Gamma Wave Souls travel as far as our Creator allows the Souls to travel hopefully targeted for their infinite, Eternal Destination.
SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS are extremely confident in their worship of God alone and praise of Jesus for teaching the proper worship of God.
Because SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS Evidenced Based Facts regarding Human creativity and ingenuity, EEG Gama waves, Interconnectedness, neuron microtubules and other facts, refute oppositions and leave no insecurity and no doubt concerning the worship of God alone and praise of Jesus for teaching Humans how to worship God

"All Human Physical Bodies decease (expire, die), slowly deteriorate and disintegrate and immediately are surrounded by an Afterworld, which is either finite or infinite, the only 2 possibilities. The ‘Soul’s Spiritual Quantum Field’ is immediately surrounded and ushered into the Infinite Eternal Afterworld (after ~2 minutes, as well documented by many scientists). The ‘Soul’s Spiritual Quantum Field’ continues into the Infinite Eternal Afterworld, if Humans have willfully believed-in, worshiped and been obedient to God.

Hence, Humans who have believed-in, worshiped and been obedient to God, immediately are encompassed within and surrounded by Eternity and immediately have immortal existence. that is the most remarkable achievement.

Research Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, after that Scientific Revelation by God and many Max Planck Institute colleagues, who had confirmed the same, said in that way, we are immortal.” Of Course, God's enduring message required confirmation by Physicists. [Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives in Quantum State After Death, Janey Tracey, 17 June 2014, Outer Places]

Many couples understand 'how' Children are conceived and Medical Scientists know the 'how' of reproductive medical science and the terminology for conception. Both Scientific and unScientific languages are important for Human communication and understanding.

Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spirituality are the pillars for Belief in God and foundations for the extensive NeuroNetworks in the Human Brain, aka the 'God Module', for obedience and Belief.

Spirituality is a sublime philosophy for belief-in and obedience-to God. In practice, Spirituality includes participation in organized religion, contemplation, meditation, prayer, reflection, and activities fostering self-growth and connections with others and with nature. [The Medical Dictionary. https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/spirituality ]

Spirituality contains 4 consistent dimensions: 1. firm belief in God 2. continual search for meaning

3. mindful Godliness 4. and a feeling of security associated with belief. These 4 dimensions may depict the concept of Spirituality more precisely than the previously used factors. [ The Spirituality Questionnaire: Core Dimensions of Spirituality, January 2012, Psychology 3(01):116-122

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2012.31017 Authors:Jochen Hardt, Sonja Schultz, Carola Xander, Gerhild Becker]

According to reports from the Hebrew Bible, during those biblical times, most illnesses and injuries were treated at home. Prayer and application of oils were the mainstay of medicines. Physicians, Doctors and Healers were scarce and often incompetent. Physicians that immigrated from Greece were not well respected. [Medicine and the Hebrew Bible https://www.bibleodyssey.org/people/related-articles/medicine-and-the-hebrew-bible]

Conversely, "from Jesus’ comments there were doctors in Israel during the life of Jesus. Luke, the author of the third Gospel and the Book of Acts, was a physician. Paul in Colossians 4:14 described Luke as a ”beloved physician.”

Jesus was easily identified as someone special, a much different and more caring healer, than others. "Pharisees asked Jesus' disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ On hearing this, Jesus said, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:9-13 [Doctors in the Bible https://earlychurchhistory.org/medicine/doctors-in-the-bible/]

2 Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Metaphorical interpretation: Seeing and following the ministry and healing of Jesus Christ conveys the knowledge for obedience and worship of God. Yes, this verse has been twisted, but Seeing is believing.

Our Creator is a Scientist, Medical Healer and Spiritual God of truth and an Divine Intelligent Designer of our Universe, who Created and provided adaptation and evolution and refined the mechanized Human Neurotheological Brain and empowered Jesus to be His worldly example of those pillars. Seeing and implementing the examples of Jesus (metaphorically the face of Jesus) is believing.

When witnessing and Seeing the sick, lame, blind and others improve, become well and healthy, the eyewitnesses became very thankful after the administration by Jesus of the Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual care and reinforced the eyewitnesses' obedience-to and believing-in God. Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual care were powerful Jesus messages, conformations and the pillars for Obedience and Belief in God. God's message is more remarkable when seen, rather than just heard.

Mat 15:30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, many others and cast them down at Jesus feet; and he healed them
Lev 21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Deu 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Mat 15:31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Mat 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
Luk 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luk 14:13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Many Scientifically Literate, legendary, extremely well-educated, religious and pious men, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) were and Michael Pravica, Ph.D. a religious physicist, who frequently explains how he reconciles his Faith and with his physics and countless other well-educated, religious and pious people are knowledgeable and follow the principles of Science, Medicine, Cosmology and understood and appreciated Truth, Science, Medicine, Healing and Spiritual care . [Martin Luther King, Jr. BY David L. Lewis, Jul 27, 2020, Encyclopedia Britannica]

“President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) effectively served a dual role as America's scientific leader as president of the ‘American Philosophical Society’, the pre-eminent scientific foundation at the time (coincidentally founded by Benjamin Franklin) as well as America's political leader, who served as the 3rd president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the 2nd vice president of the United States between 1797 and 1801. “During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as a wartime governor (1779–1781). President Jefferson developed a reasonable, rational, non-supernatural religion. From his deep intellectual mind and rationalism evolved an affirmation of faith, which was influenced by both Christianity and deism. President Thomas Jefferson was a well Educated, Scientifically literate Christian. [Jefferson and Religion by Eugene R Sheridan, 1998]

[Please see: President Thomas Jefferson and Apostle Thomas Didymus were Scientifically Literate Christians. https://myscientistgod.us/tom-jefferson-and-didymus]

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GOD'S HOLY CONSTITUTION IS AXIOMATIC

GOD'S HOLY CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE AXIOMATIC

GOD'S HOLY CONSTITUTION

Approximately ~ 375 to 380 AD The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles was written. [Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum] The authors were unknown. The Apostolic Constitutions were the Origins of the rules for Christian Worship in that era.

The Apostolic Constitutions are Christian collections of eight treatises which belongs to the Catholic Church Orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative "apostolic" prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Catholic Church organization. [The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). Oxford University Press. pp. 73ss. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.The work can be dated from 375 to 380 AD.]

The Apostolic Constitutions were controversial and debated, whole and in parts were accepted by some and rejected b and others re-worded chapters for acceptance.

“In antiquity, the Apostolic Constitutions were mistakenly supposed to be gathered and handed down by Clement of Rome.” Chapter 47 is known as the Canons of the Apostles and it had a wider circulation than the rest of the book. The Catholic Church seems never to have regarded this work as of undoubted Apostolic authority.

“The 47th and last chapter of the 8th book of the Apostolic Constitutions contains the 85 Canons of the Apostles, which present themselves as being from an apostolic Council at Antioch. These canons were later approved by the Eastern Council in Trullo in 692 but rejected by Pope Constantine. In the Western Catholic Church only fifty of these canons circulated.”

References:
1. Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press. pp. 73ss. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.
2. ^Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press. pp. 85–87. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.
3. Jasper, Ronald Claud Dudley; Cuming, G. J. (1990). Prayers of the Eucharist: early and reformed. Liturgical Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8146-6085-0.
4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Apostolic Constitutions". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
5. Woolfenden, Gregory W. (2004). Daily liturgical prayer: origins and theology. Ashgate Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7546-1601-6.
6. Vatican gr 1506
7. "Apostolical constitutions". Encyclopaedic Dictionary Of Christian Antiquities. 1. Concept Publishing Company. 2005. p. 119. ISBN 978-81-7268-111-1.
8. Michael D. Marlowe. "The "Apostolic Canons" (about A.D. 380)". Bible Research. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
9. Easton, Burton Scott (1934). The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus. Cambridge. p. 13.
10. von Funk, Franz Xaver (1905). Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum. 2. Panderborn
11. Wikipedia

“The US Constitution is venerated as a Holy Scripture in American politics….US Constitution, The American Constitution and Declaration of Independence have been worshipped for over two centuries.”

“However, the US Constitution is not a Holy Scripture, but a Government Constitution and meant to be changed and adapted to the changing times. Government Constitutions, after all, are the words of men, not gods.” [The Holy Constitution By Gretel Kahn On May 22, 2018, McGill International Review]

But the US Constitution is not the Holy Constitution of God. The Holy Constitution of God is not meant to be changed and adapted to the changing times, because Holy Constitution of God are the rules of our one and only almighty God’. [mbmsrmd]

Our Creator is a Spiritual, Scientist, Healing, Cognitive, Conscious, Wise, Peaceful and Forgiving God of Truth. Humans are dutified with Creation, Blessings, Grace and Mercy to maintain “in His likeness”, as Created and exemplified by Jesus.

Holy Constitution of God: No Human has the Right to disobey their Creation “in His likeness”.[mbmsrmd]

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him

No one gets a free pass. Of course, Humans will disobey. 'Disobedience is Human Nature'. And when Humans disobey God, they will be penalized.

Psalm 119:172 "All Your commandments are righteousness." .... or "right doing."
1 John 5:17 King James Version (KJV) "All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death."
John prohibits prayers for those "whose sin is up until death" (5:16). John believed forgiveness must precede death. "What one may not ask for with respect to those whose "sin is unto death" is that they be given life apart from their repentance, confession and returning to following Christ. Prohibition of prayer in the Old Testament and Jewish literature roughly contemporaneous with 1 John is a sign of God's judgment on unrepentant sinners (compare Jer 7:16-17; 11:14-15). One can pray that unbelievers may repent and come to fellowship with God. But if God were to forgive them as they persist in their sin until death , that would not be forgiveness: it would be denial of human sinfulness which, in the Elder's view, is an abhorrent lie. :[BibleGateway}
All unrighteousness is wrongdoing; is sin. [ John W. Ritenbaugh, The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 16)]

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DIVINE INTELLIGENT DESIGNED CHRISTIANITY

DIVINE INTELLIGENT DESIGNED CHRISTIANITY is an educational website for both scientific and Christian mindful persons, who understand that our Creator is both a scientist and spiritual God and strive to reconcile our gridlocked science and Christian disciplines and promote scientific evidence based Christianity and comprehend that we humans are the Creation of a loving God, who also Created physical, biological and all additional sciences within our universe. DIVINE INTELLIGENT DESIGNED CHRISTIANITY worship God alone and praise Jesus for teaching humans how to worship God.

Music, Human spirituality, religion, meditation and Soulfulness are religious, philosophical and scientific disciplines. After all, God, the scientist Created cosmology, physics, science et al before He created Human life and spirituality KJV Genesis 1:3: "And God said let there be light and there was light" and God Created Nature. Since Nature had a cause and etiology, there had to be a meaning and purpose, a 'tele' and a someone, namely God. So our Creator, God, had a reason, meaning and purpose. [Teleological definition, Merriam-Webster: exhibiting meaning, reason, design, purpose especially nature]

23 versus later in the KJV, Genesis 1:26 God said, "let us make man in our own image" and God created man and then woman. Humans, when created, then had a level playing field on which to overcome adversities and a training ground for willfully and obediently executing God's word and commandments, while resisting temptations and sin.

Scientific facts:

The elements for life on the atomic chart, CHNOPS, were Created during our Universe’s age 2 minutes to 20 minutes, 13.8 billion years ago (ya)
Earth began circling the sun ~4.6 billion ya
Simple one cell life began ~3.6 billion ya

Anatomically modern humans, standing erect for the first time on 2 feet, species named Homo sapien, were Created and were present and accounted-for 200,000 ya. Anatomically modern cognitive humans, sub-species Homo sapien-sapiens were Created and were present and accounted-for 50,000-70,000 years ago.

A concerned scientist asked her pastor, "Can I Be a Scientist and a Christian? "Absolutely", Her pastor said and he told her story. “Years ago, when I pastored a church in Hawaii, I met a young woman named Mary, who was working on her Ph.D. in biology. On the one hand, Mary felt drawn to Christianity. But on the other hand, she struggled with the issue of science and faith, especially evolution.

Eventually, Mary was able to blend her biological background with Christianity. She discovered the satisfaction and contentment being both a biologist and Christian. Her professional and religious lives were compatible and rewarding. [by Martin Thielen, Contributor, Martin Thielen, a United Methodist pastor, is the author of "Searching for Happiness, What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?, and The Answer to Bad Religion Is Not No Religion.”] [05/01/2014 02:11 pm ET Updated Jul 01, 2014 Huffington Post https://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-thielen/scientist-and-a-christian_b_5240239.html]

Some thoughts on Holy Trinity from physicist's perspective, Professor Michael Pravica, Ph.D.,

“God, the Father encompasses all that is outside of our universe, (including other parallel universes and universes of different dimensions if they exist), as the Creator of these universes and as an infinitely-dimensional entity (Eternal, Everlasting entity).

“This is similar to a painter such as Michelangelo existing outside of his painting (or outside our Universe) and painting everything in his painting (or painting everything in our Universe from another universe or Hypercosmos).

“Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God's representative (advocate) within our universe, which is made of four-dimensional spacetime, as a human being (Created from particles and matter) who suffered as a human being.

“The Holy Spirit is God's representative as an all-encompassing, ubiquitous energy-wave (pure energy with which He communicates) within our universe, which is unaffected by world actions and events and is invisible to the material world i.e. the matter-based, material-based world, but Holy Spirit energy permeates matter-based, material-based world with ease.

“Time stops for energy waves that travel at the speed of light. As long as our Universe exists, the Holy Spirit will continue to roam and spiritually warm our Universe. God is with us continually in spirituality (Holy Spirit), if we want Him to be, (willfully).

Professor Michael Pravica, Ph.D., curriculum vitae and work resume

“Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (1998) from Harvard Univ.
Thesis title: "NMR experiments in a diamond anvil cell at high pressures."
A.M. in Physics (1990) from Harvard University.
B.Sc. in Physics and Applied Mathematics (1988) with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Professor of Physics, Physics Department Assessment Coordinator,
recipient of the CSUN Student Government 2013 Faculty Excellence Award for teaching, recipient of the UNLV College of Sciences 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award, recipient of the UNLV College of Sciences 2018 Distinguished Service Award, Former UNLV Teaching Academy Fellow (F2014-S2015)
“Scientist” featured in No Script produced by Bleacher Report with Marshawn Lynch. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV),4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454002, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4002, Office: Bigelow Physics Building Room 136 (BPB-136)., Work Phone: (702)895-1723, Lab Phone: (702)895-1323,Raman Spectroscopy Lab: BPB 137, E-mail: pravica@physics.unlv.edu , Alternate E-mail: pravica@yahoo.com, Alternate2 E-mail: michael.pravica@unlv.edu, Twitter handle: @drpravica.”

Professor Dr. (Ph.D.) Michael Pravica’s biblical interpretation of the trinity and the story of Jesus are his interpretation, understanding, and his Human Right.

Dr. Pravica’s interpretation and understanding are similar to this scientific investigator’s interpretation and understanding. However, that doesn’t mean that Pravica's and this scientific investigators’ philosophies and understandings fit everyone and doesn’t mean that ours is the only interpretation, philosophy and the only understanding necessary for everyone.

Everyone’s personal belief and worship of God alone are our Creator’s reason for the mortal Jesus, [TJM]; Jesus who was a “human being made up of particles and matter [Dr. Pravica]), who lived on this magnificent earth.

Dr. Pravica said, “Nevertheless, I believe the more we learn about our physical universe and how it was put together, the closer we can come to God.”

[Some thoughts on Holy Trinity from physicist's perspective, Professor Michael Pravica, Ph.D., 01.10.2013 16:07 Author`s name Dmitry Sudakov, Pravada.ru]

Anesthesiologist, physicist and philospher, Dr. Stuart Hameroff believes the "Interconnectedness" of all the Interconnected components within our Universe are evidence for the existence of God and His Godliness Democracy.

Dr. Stuart Hameroff Hard Evidence for the Description of God is the best evidence report for the existence of God, for living Humans, and the best evidence for General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics and Mathematical Paradox lost.

There is hard evidence for Creation of CHNOPS [ Dr. Morowitz described the CHNOPS elements necessary for organisms' life], which are the 6 atomic elements, with atomic numbers equal to or less than 16, which were created, from 2 to 29 minutes, after The Big Bang began, about 13.8 Billion years ago.

Protoconsciousness (predecessor to Cnsciiousness) was formed from the 4 Forces in the Universe (Hameroff-Penrose):
electromagnetic,
gravitational,
weak
and strong forces.

The Quantum Consciousness of our Universe, fell into the hypothetical ‘Biological Net’, which was similar to a Black Hole, or a series of Black-like Holes, not exactly like Black Holes, formed with CHNOPS atomic elements for life.

Anesthesiologist, physicist and philosopher, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, believes the 'interconnected Oneness', 'Wholeness', of all the interconnected components of God's Democracy, from the 'Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago, throughout our Universe, to the end for each Human's Soul, which display Energy Area Laws (energy waves) Creation Quantum Entanglement, are the best evidence for the existence of God. [Penrose-Hameroff ORCH OR Theory]

Scientifically Educated Christians understand the physics, chemistry and biology for better understanding of the Interconnected Oneness, Wholeness' of the Universe.

Christians have the options of SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE INTERPRETATIONS with the demystified, natural Jesus History.

Conversely, other Christians have the option of Roman Emperor Constantine’s beginners' Christianity or another fundamental Christianity, which originated from a supernatural Jesus History, plus the Trinity with its origin from the Constantine's sun worship which contained a 3 headed mythological god, Cerberus, who had 1 body and 3 heads.

The main differences in these Christianities, in particular, are different scientific and supernatural semantics, languages following Discernment. For Christians, if the end result is the praise of Jesus, righteousness and worship of God alone, all are good. Everyone has a freedom to choose, the philosophy, doctrines and creeds most suitable to them.

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CHRISTIANITY AND WORLD RELIGIONS

The religious beliefs of almost all of the world's people can be grouped into 4 categories, monotheists, reincarnationists, folk religions, and the unaffiliated.

The largest are the monotheists, who worship the God of Abraham. These are the Jews, Christians, and the Muslims, and perhaps some other smaller groups. The Abrahamic monotheists are about 55 % of the world's population and that percentage is increasing because of Islam's growth.

World’s Christians are 32%, Muslims 23%, and the world’s total population of Jews is 0.195%, which is ~ 15 Million of the total world 7.7 Billion population. [DellaPergola, Sergio (2015).

Dashefsky, Arnold; Sheskin, Ira (eds.)."World Jewish Population, 2015". Current Jewish Population Reports. The American Jewish Yearbook (Dordrecht: Springer). 115: 273–364. Retrieved 19 November 2016].

In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and is estimated to be 7.7 Billion, (7,700,000,000) people in April 2019. ["World Population Clock: 7.7 Billion People (2019) - Worldometers". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved April 27, 2019.]

Christians are the largest portion of this group and the largest faith, with a little less than 1/3 (32%) of the world's population. Christianity is roughly holding its own as a portion of the world's population. At both the beginning and the end of the 20thCentury Christians were about 1/3 of the human race.

84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the 5 largest religion groups, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religions.[10]

Therefore 55% of the world's population believe God Exists, but He is hidden, obscure, veiled or the Human visual spectrum is not capable of visualizing God in His form. 55% of the world's population don’t believe God does not exist or He exists but in our Universe, but is not visible. [Pew Research Center]

What is the neurological science for religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God? The Dopamine-Reward system is fundamental in that neurological science. God and Eternity are Human rewards.

Hard working, determined, ambitious people are motivated and rewarded for their labors. The religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God are willful.

The Human Brain Motivation NeuroNetwork stimulates willfulness. Dopamine neurotransmitters sparks motivation.

For The Human Brain Motivation NeuroNetwork, specifically, it matters which pathway dopamine takes. The Mesolimbic Pathway, which comes from the middle of the brain and branches to various places like the Cerebral Cortex, is the most important reward pathway in the brain.

One of the Mesolimbic stops is the Nucleus Accumbens. When dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens has been stimulated, it triggers feedback for predicting rewards. Essentially, the Human brain recognizes that something important is about to happen, so dopamine kicks in. Rewards spark the feel good mechanism i.e. Pavlo’s dogs. [Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation, April 9, 2019 by Kevan Lee originally December of 2013, updated for by Willa Rubin in 2017 and again in 2019, I Done This Blog, The Science of Small Wins, The Science of Productivity » Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation, Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science]

Motivation is fundamental to the Dopamine Neurochemical-Reward System, which is a basic mechanism for religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God neurological science.

For activation of the Dopamine Neurochemical-Reward System for religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God, Scientifically Educated Christian discernment is more compelling, confident stimuli, than mysterious, supernatural questions and fear of the devil, which are mothers’ milk motivations for Constantine beginners’ Christianity.

However, both stimuli for Christian religiousness, spirituality, belief-of, obedience-to, righteousness and worship of God are equally significant and important God, but more important to Neuroplasticity of the individual’s push-pull-cybernetics.

Christian conversion is “the adoption of new Christian religious beliefs in God. It involves and requires internalization of the new belief system.”

For Christian conversion, judgment approves the faith, hope, love and total philosophy of Jesus, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable.

The desire is to know the whole mind of Jesus; the free and willful choice of the Human mind is determined byr the ways of Jesus, not the pleasures of sin, and materiality of the world and the daily care of life to walk with God. [Joseph Alleine, p. 162., Dictionary of Burning Words by many brilliant authors (1895)]

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the Soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine. [Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 163. Dictionary of Burning Words by many brilliant authors (1895)]

References

1. Morreall, John; Sonn, Tamara (2013). "Myth 1: All Societies Have Religions". 50 Great Myths of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 12–17. ISBN 978-0-470-67350-8.

2. Nongbri, Brent (2013). Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15416-0.

3. James 1902, p. 31

4. Durkheim 1915.

5. Tillich, P. (1957) Dynamics of faith. Harper Perennial; (p. 1).

6. Vergote, A. (1996) Religion, Belief and Unbelief. A Psychological Study, Leuven University Press. (p. 16)

7. James, Paul & Mandaville, Peter (2010). Globalization and Culture, Vol. 2: Globalizing Religions. London: Sage Publications.

8. Faith and Reason by James Swindal, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

9. African Studies Association; University of Michigan (2005). History in Africa. 32. p. 119.

10. The Global Religious Landscape". 18 December 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

11. The Global Religious Landscape. Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life. 18 December 2012.

12. James, Paul"What Does It Mean Ontologically to Be Religious?". In Stephen Ames; Ian Barns; John Hinkson; Paul James; Gordon Preece; Geoff Sharp (eds.). Religion in a Secular Age: The Struggle for Meaning in an Abstracted World. Arena Publications. p. 56–100.

‘STRONG MEAT’ FOR DISCERNMENT

Out of respect for God, SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS do not recognize and promote the prefered proper title names for organizations of Godlessness and Disbelief in the existence of God. However, to be sure, the membership in those so-called organizaions for the Godlessness and Disbelief in the existence of God is increasing.

Our world, universe and Human existence cannot afford to suffer the loss of scientists, medical scientists and others so inclined to those groups who have unnecessarily and disastrously announced their disassociation with God and Creation.

Therefore this research reporter must advocate assertively the alternate allegorical interpretations of the Jesus story. which are the 'Strong Meat of Christiahn Discernment' and Truth”, for the sake of disbelievers of the literal Jesus story, that coerces them to Godlessness and Disbelief in the existence of God. In doing so, this research reporter must prove the truth. (IMHMSO) In my (and numerous others) humble medical and scientific opinions.

The parable, John 8:32 KJV of the Holy Bible, was about truth, which is timely now, proposed then by our wise Jesus, whom SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS praise for teaching Humans how to worship our God, but who was not believed to be God in the flesh: “The truth will set you free.” The truth is that the more reasonable, rational, believable, natural and scientific explanation about the story of Jesus is ‘Spiritual Freedom’.

Just as the Roman Empire Rule and Religions during the Jesus Era were, ‘Constantine and Nicene Council Christianity’ were/are an interim, supernatural Jesus story that has been a bondage. Now, it is ‘High Time’ for SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS and others so inclined to be set free. Science and medicine now have more truth, facts and evidence for the real, proven Creation Research Results and the story about the Messiah Jesus. https://www.gotquestions.org/the-truth-will-set-you-free.html

Like biblical questions during the time of Jesus, a young medical student asked this research reporter to help him understand the confusion he experienced when he imagined in his mind that the 2 accomplished women engineer astronauts, “Anne McClain and Christine Koch, aboard the International Space Station, are about to set a record astronomical achievement for women.”

“On March 29, 2019 in the wake of International Women’s Day and in perfect synchronization with Women’s History, astronomically and scientifically dressed and equipped to the 9’s, they are scheduled to perform NASA’s first-ever spacewalk that features only women. ”This is extremely amazing and progressive news, for our time. [2 female astronauts set for first all-women spacewalk in history, by Sarah Beck March 7, 2019, Fox32]

The young medical student had been instructed in Bible School about the 'Rapture'. So he continued and then said “he imagined in his Mind, if somewhere along the way out in space, after the trumpet sounded for the Rapture, these 2 spectacular women astronauts by chance passed the ‘Second Coming of Jesus Christ and angels with wings and all the changed and raised dead Humans, were seen passing by them, flying in the clouds, (in outer space, while not astronautically uniformed and not equipped for the cosmos), but were to meet the Lord in the air.”

He stated that “all born again Christians will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and said the Bible tells us that all born again Christians mortal bodies will be made alive if they have God’s spirit living in them.” He had always been perplexed by this second coming. His study of biology and medicine conflicted greatly with the 'Rapture'. What would he advise his sick patients about the 'Rapture'? His 'Oath of Hippocrates' also describes his duty to his patients. He also took an oath when he was baptized. These 2 oaths appeared conflictual. He questioned, "am I confronted with two irreconcilable demands." He had read non-sensical reports about religion and science differences being irreconcilable. How can bias interfear with reconciliation?

This research reporter was astonished at the comparison the medical student’s imagination had drawn from his Bible School lessons and had described and pictured for this research reporter to see and compare. He wanted this research reporter to explain the validity of both happenings.

This is where the ‘rubber meets the road’ for this reporter. Never had this reporter imagined such a conflictual story. Astrauanuts space walk is difficult enough, but how will a doctor explain the resurrection from the dead of Jesus and the 'Rapture'?

These are the points.
to begin the 'Rapture' is not a word not in the Holy Bible
Christians say it is a 'doctrine' taught for hundreds of years.
In other words, the 'Rapture' is an abstract religious literal meme
a mental thought without any proof, not even in the KJV of the Holy Bible
The 'Rapture' and all supernatural, mysterious events which have been taught (literal memes)to Christian beginners for about hundreds of years should be scientifically and truthy evaluated and explained for the young medical student to understand.
A literal meme is "an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means and imitation." [Tech Terms, Computer Dictionary]
For Humans not scientifically inclined, science might be confusing.

Suggested Rapture scriptures: (Matthew 24:36) (Acts 1:6) (Acts 1:7) (Matthew 24: 29-31, 42-43) (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) (1 Thessalonians 5:1-5) (Romans 8:11) (Revelation 14:14-20) [When Is The Rapture, Irvin Baxter, EndTime Ministries]

In this reporter’s context, but stated by the referenced author in another context, “this is not the time to emphasize only the parts of the Bible we like, to make us feel good. This is the time for us to make sure that our lives are in line with all the teachings of God’s Word. If ever there were a time to walk closely to God, this is the time.” This research reporter agrees, but in a different context, the truth.

The facts appear to be that Jesus cannot stand alone, by himself in the Holy Scriptures without the presence and worship of God, but God can stand alone by himself in the Holy Scriptures without the presence and worship of Jesus. The worship of God stood alone in the Old Testament. Why else would Christians revere and study the Old Testament and Judeo-Christianity; both are indelibly linked . "Given the Bible’s insistence that worship is to be directed to God alone, any God-fearing individual will need a satisfactory answer to this all-important question., why is Jesus worshipped?

John 1:1 King James Version of the Holy Bible: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. When this research reporter reads John 1:1, The Word(s) are commandments and rules from God concluded allegorically. Our God is respecfully capitalized because God is our specific Diety's Name; a proper noun; a respectful Name for our one-and-only specific Deity, God.

The names of things that are ordinary or familiar like 'word' in the above scripture are common nouns and don't require capitalization but can be capitalized in the Bible to emphasize the zwig of its origin; the Word represents commandments and rules from God, but capitalization of Word isn't a rule of grammar. KJV Bible interpreters and teachers conveniently replaced (said again, Bible interpreters and teachers conveniently replaced) in John 1:1 the 3rd 'Word', a common noun, capitalized for emphasis of the origin of the commandments and rules from God, with the specific proper noun, Jesus, to read or sound-like 'Jesus was God', is deceitfully unholy, in the opinion of this reporter and many others. Constantine and the Nicene Council were determined to promote the Trinity; Constantine Christianity was the product. 'Jesus was God' is a stretch of God-fearlessness.

Jesus Christ was Jesus the anointed or Jesus the messiah. Jesus was not God according the King James Version of the Holy bible. That mistake is an either a blunderous mistake or an unholy grammatical deception. Apostle Thomas Didymus was teaching the duplicity of Jesus. Jesus was a man of human flesh and affiliated with the Word of God, or son of God; a human being combined in a perfect union with the Word of God, coupled together by Thomas and others allegorically as twins.

Repeating, Jesus was a Human and the son of man, the son of the Humans, Joseph and Mary. The Word of God, His commandments and moral rules, His philosophy and creed, were the non-Human son of God, the allegorical non-Human twin of Jesus. [SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS]

The duplicity or twin of Jesus was a purified, perfected human philosophy comprised of holiness, wisdom, justice, love, tolerance, goodness and service to God, following the word, commandments and rules of God, which were not God, but became Holy authority, Christianity, representing God.

One seed of David, the twin, Jesus, was a normal natural human birth by Mary, fathered by Joseph the carpenter and the other seed a virgin birth, that required no fertilization, because the Father of the Word of God was in Heaven. The virgin birth attributed to Mary was the birth of the Word of God.

The Aramaic translation of Christos means anointed with the Word of God. Christ is the English term for the Greek Χριστός (khristos) meaning "the anointed". In the (Greek) Septuagint version of the Old Testament, khristos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ,) (Messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed." [Etymology].

Students must read the Book of John, chapter 1 and focus on the following and similar definitions and scriptures in other chapters. These are only a few of the scriptures that denote the same meanings:

Jesus was distinguished as the Jesus who was called the Christ. There were many named Jesus during that time but only one was singled out as the one called the Christ.
He was the only Jesus, during that time, who was anointed with the Word of God by God.
Christ occurs 571 times in 532 verses in the KJV.
Jesus occurs 983 times in 942 verses in the KJV
Jesus AND Christ occur together in 258 verses in the KJV 1

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 1:41 He (Andrew) first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Andrew told Simon Peter. Philip told Nathanael that Jesus is the "Messiah," the One" described in Hebrew Scriptures. For centuries, they waited for the "Messiah," the "Anointed One." This person was supposed to rescue Israel from her enemies, and lead, free, and glorify them. Instead Jesus was rejected.

This is the time to ‘separate the wheat from the chaff’ and separate and distinguish truthful, valued, important SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS for the Discerned Christian, from supernatural and mythical Jesus stories designed for the beginning Christians, designed to fear them into believing and worshiping Jesus. SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS perform their duty and praise our hero Jesus for teaching Humans how to worship our God who Created the Universe 13.8 Billion years ago. Jesus was born about 2000 yeas ago.

Apostle Thomas didymus (died in 72 AD), who proved Jesus was alive with his finger inserted into the side of Jesus, who was the only scientist in the New Testament, whose gospels were not published in the Constantine / Nicene Council Bible, described an explanation to the virgin birth, to satisfy the skeptics of that time, that Jesus was born in pure perfect union with the word of God. Jesus and the word were a twin birth. Jesus the seed of David, son of man, Joseph and Mary, was a real Human with remarkable faith and belief in God, a messiah who taught the word. The word, a virgin birth, required no copulation, sexual intercourse, prior to birth alongside Jesus, whose life in-utero began with fertilization. The etymology of Didymus derives from the Greek word for twin, the mystery of his name revealed.

"In an influential book 'Kyrios Christos' by Wilhelm Bousset 1970 took this view, contending that this was the form of Christian faith that the apostle Paul was introduced to after his “conversion,” typically dated ca. 30-35 C.E. But Bousset also insisted that this treatment of Jesus as divine Kyrios couldn’t have happened in a thoroughly Jewish context (in which monotheistic concerns dominated), and so he placed the development in diaspora sites such as Antioch and/or Damascus (in Syria), where, he posited, pagan models of the divinization of heroes could have been influential." [ Larry W. Hurtado Emeritus Professor, University of Edinburgh, emeritus professor of New Testament Language, Literature & Theology in the University of Edinburgh.]

Roman Empire Christianisation involved vulnerable, rural pagan (pagan conversion is a good thing) conquer and triumph. However, worship of any divinity other than God alone is not a good thing.

Newborn babes are not born with discernment; which evolves from maturity, intelligence, experience, education.
Rural, vulnerable pagan (conversion a good thing) were not capable of discernment; only the 'milk' for new born
Beginning Christians and/or mature Christians with ‘strong meat’, discernment, begin at every conceivable age and milestone.
Mature Christians (1 Th 5:21) must “Prove all things within their capacity and hold tight those things that are good.”
SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS, facts and evidence-based truth, are the capacity of scientists, doctors and those so inclined, some mature, but not all.
Mature Christians (Romans 12:2 should not be conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of their mind, that ye may prove what is good, and acceptable, and perfect, according to the will of God.
(1 Corinthians 14:33) For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(Philippians 1:9) And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
(Philippians 1:10) That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of you receive the Word.
(Hebrews 5:14) But ‘strong meat’belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
False prophets seek the worship-of and obedience-to divinitties other than our God alone.

The political entity names varied from the Roman Empire church, Eastern and Western Christendom, east and West Roman Empire, kingdoms (of Germany , Italy, Bohemia and Burgundy) the Holy Roman Empire and many, many other names, depending on geographical, religious and governmental changes.

After the crucifixion of Jesus, The Roman Empire for many centuries pursued as a Single political entity with the Roman Christian Church and Roman Empire as the leading institutions and the Pope and Emperor, or variant titles thereof, their leaders respectively. Constantine’s bible canonization 325 AD was the pinnacle. The Trinity, God (Father), Jesus (son) and the Holy Spirit were the 3 image-god.

This research reporter explained to the medical student that Constantine’s Roman Empire and Christianity were under increased pressure in about 300 AD. The Roman Empire was taking on innumerable immigrants and battles from all border sides. In 301 AD, Armenia was the first nation to accept Christianity. Constantine I died in 306 AD, Rome was destabilized. Constantine II and the Roman Empire were under siege and sieged others repeatedly, relentlessly during and after the Holy Bible canonization 325 AD. The embattled Constantine II died in 337 and more Constantine sons succeeded his death. More embattlements and literal Christianity continued.(See The Late Roman Timeline)

An all encompassing Christian Religion comprised of Christians, Jews, Greeks, Gentiles, sun-worshipers, Islamic and others was a possible Roman Empire ‘salvation’. The Roman Empire senators exchanged their togas for Christian frocks, Constantine became the first Pope, he canonized the first bible in 325 AD, he and the Nicene Council decided on a Trinity like the sun-worship god, supernatural events and the Catholic Church was born, which held the Empire together awhile longer.

Constantine Christianity was traditional, customary, convenient and legal. Yes, leagal. At that point no universally sanctioned Scriptures or Christian Bible existed. The Council of Nicaea and Roman Emperor Constantine met in 325 C.E. to establish a unified Catholic Church. Various churches and officials adopted different texts and gospels. That’s why the Council of Hippo sanctioned 27 books for the New Testament in 393 C.E. Four years later the Council of Cartage confirmed the same 27 books as the authoritative Scriptures of the Church. Self research and instruction were nearly impossible.

"Wouldn’t you assume that the newly established Church would want its devotees to immerse themselves in the sanctioned New Testament, especially since the Church went to great lengths to eliminate competing Gospels? And wouldn’t the best way of spreading the “good news” be to ensure that every Christian had direct access to the Bible? That’s not what happened. The Church actually discouraged the populace from reading the Bible on their own, a policy that intensified through the Middle Ages and later, with the addition of a prohibition forbidding translation of the Bible into native languages." The Roman populace would have required ingenuity and impossible, illegal efforts to immerse theselves in religious freedom. But they were denied.

The Constantine Christian Religion did not fall with the fall of the deaths of the Constantines and the Roman Empire. The Roman Catholic original doctrines, 'Pure Spiritual Milk' for beginners, remained and set the tone for new civilizations and Christianisations for years thereafter. [Why Christians Were Denied Access to Their Bible for 1,000 Years by Bernard Starr, Contributor College Professor (Emeritus, City University of N.Y),psychologist, journalist, Huffington Post, 05/20/2013

"Pontifex Maximus or pontifex maximus (Latin, "greatest priest"[1][2][3]) was the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. The title of "Pontifex Maximus" was applied within the Catholic Church to the Pope as its chief bishop The pontifices were the ones who smoothed the "bridge" between gods and men."[12])

1. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, s. v. Pontifex.
2. Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary, s. v. pontifex
3. American Heritage Dictionary s. v. pontifex
4. Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War – Google Knihy. Books. google.cz. 1 January 2006. ISBN 978-0-520-24991-2. Retrieved 2016-09-02. 12. Van Haeperen [Wikipedia]

Pagans were Christianized to prevent the ‘Devil gonna get you’, ‘you’ll burn in hell’ and feared the pagans and disenfranchised into believing in God. Quick believers, were ‘conquered’ and the Roman Empire once again triumphed’. Most pagans and rural European were converted and remained sequestered in the immature stage of the beginners Constantine Christian religion. Any divinity worship other than our God alone is not a good thing.

The Holy Bible, with mature allegorical interpretations, is the spiritual text of SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS and the beginning text with literal interpretations of the beginning Christian. SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS is ‘strong meat’; for the strong, spiritually mature, with fresh interpretation of difficult, ambiguous, supernatural doctrines suitable for scientists, doctors and others inclined mature with the ability to discern complicated information. SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS is not fundamental doctrine ‘milk’ for new believers, beginning Christian growth and development, rules for every day living, and/or bible study.

To the learned, discerning medical student, seeking fresh interpretation, and eager for the Word of God and Christian participation, but conflicted and confused with his beginning Christian instruction, this research reporter explained that at this stage of his life his explanations are allowed change to suit his station in life, truthful therapy of his patients and instruction of others so inclined.

This research reporter explained to the medical student that God provides each ladder rung, each milestone, and purpose, along the way when climbing the ladder of Christianity. Beginning Christians start at the bottom of the ladder and require emotional insurgence, hyperbolic sermons to grab the attention of beginners and literal interpretations of the Holy Bible. "The high regard for religious scriptures in the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to relate in part to a process of canonization of the Hebrew Bible,

The highly regarded literal written word in the Hebrew Bible represented a direct conduit to the mind of God." Literal interpretation is more than any other reason, a Judeo-Christian Tradition. Detailed numbers, dates and events appear out of sink with the science of Creation. [McDonald & Sanders, ed., The Canon Debate page 4]

In science and medicine Occam's Razoor and 'when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras. The simplist, most obvious conclusion or diagnosis is usually the most accurate and at the same time, the least expensive answer. In other words, the Kiss Method; keep it simple stupid is ususlly the most efficacious. Why confuse our God's idenity with another person or group's identity, Jesus is God, unless control, power, conquest, triumph and wealth of all the constituients in the Roman Empire and world are the motives. Constitine transformed the Roman Empire to the Holy Roman Empire of God, not the plan of Jesus and the early Christians.

Then it dawned on the medical student, the difference in the intersection of the 2 scenarios is: On the one hand, there is the knowledge and science that the women astronauts practice and train for their soon walk and suspension in space, which is a spectacular undertaking, while also realizing the lack of science during the Jesus Era, 2015 years ago, and science is celebrating its 519th birthday, since the Scientific Revolution which began in ~1500 AD. Our knowledge of astrophysics and cosmology have a short history, considering our Universe began 13.8 billion years ago.

The medical student was beginning to understand the scientific evidence for God's presence in Neuronetworks of the living Human Brain and Soul and these were contrasted with the absence of scientific evidence for the supernatural and mystified life of Jesus, who is our hero, but not our God and whom we praise for teaching us how to worship God, teach obedience and righteousness, faith, hope and love.

He realized the difference in the remarkable sacrifice and altruistic crucifixion, suffering and death of Jesus, suspended in air, when nailed to the cross, for the atonement, pardoning of Human sins, reconciliation of Humans with God which the beginning of organized Christian religion soon after, very much unlike the 2 women astronauts will be tethered to a life providing capsule,

Understanding the contrast and difference in the spacewalk and the Rapture is the level of ascent up the ladder of Christianity, the difference in maturity, intelligence, experience and education and the difference in excellence in Discernment ability; eliminating uncertainty and doubtfulness associated with the literal memes of myth, mystery and the supernatural life of Jesus. ["Atonement." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005]

God allows for Christian beginning, learning and enlightenment and later mature Christian Discernment and doing the truth following learning and enlightenment; not just window dressing praise and worship, "creating a deceptively favorable or attractive impression, to others" [Merriam-Webster]; favorable appearance in the eyes of other Christians. From the fundamental emotional phase of 'milk' for new Christian believers to the 'Strong Meat of Christiahn Discernment' and Truth” is a natural progression recognized by our Creator.

Excellent ministers can preach emotional babes to the alter and conversion, a great result. However, Adjustment Reactions to Life, Tragedy, Chaos and Heartache on the one hand or contentment on the other, often render youthful and new adult Christian believers stuck in the fundamental emotional phase of 'Pure Spiritual Milk' [ 1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation ...] Adjustment Reactions are precipitated by the following examples: parental drug addiction and alcoholism, death and grief for a loved-one, emergencies that call for immediate, extreme Spiritual and Medical reactions, which are reasured by 'Pure Spiritual Milk' and reinforced with literal memes, the Rapture, Hell fire and Damnation, stern customs, accepted as normal, which carry victims and families through the tough times, surrounded by security, safety and dependability, not unfamiliarity. [Reference Nurse TJM]

"This is how Peter tells believers they should act towards the word of God in 1 Peter 2:2. "Newborn instinctively need their mother’s milk with the fuel to live, essential nutrients, strength, customs, psychological stability, warmth and love. [What Does It Mean to “Crave Pure Spiritual Milk”? Grow Closer to God by Never “Outgrowing” His Word, by Mark Ballenger, 2019, AGW]

Amazing grace, mercy, Creation, science and medicine are blessed and bestowed by God. Believing that Spiritual Brain growth should be directed other than to our God, but directed toward the literal memes of myth, mystery and the supernatural life of Jesus throughout an individual believer’s lifetime is Amazing shallowness. Temporary 'Pure Spiritual Milk' for beginning believers and their persuasive ministers prepared with their professional teachings, are realistic and customary. Legitimate 'Strong Meat of Christiahn Discernment' and Truth”, should be the view of mature mindful Christians, scientists and doctors, particularly in light of recent scientific research, providing that transformation from the beginner stage is not prevented, while doing life.

There was much more for the inquisitive medical student to learn. Neurotheology and Neuroplasticity investigations reveal the Human Brain grows and flourishes when believing-in and worshiping God spiritually, meditatively and religiously. The bridge from spirituality, meditation, and relgion to scinece is long and complicated.“ It seems that the brain is built in such a way that allows us as human beings to have transcendent experiences easily, furthering our belief in a greater power,” Newberg says. This would explain why some type of religion exists in every culture, arguably making spirituality one of the defining characteristics of our species.” [‘How God Changes Your Brain’ by Dr. Andrew Newberg]

Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University and author of the forthcoming ‘Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don’t’, agrees that it is imperative to examine religion scientifically. “Religion is at the root both of so many great civilizations and of so many wars, it has so much mythological power, we have to understand how it works.”

“According to US molecular geneticist Dr Dean Hamer, subjects in his research with this “God gene” (VMAT2), were more susceptible to self-transcendent, spiritual experiences. Many neuroscientists now think spiritual tendencies involve genes relating to the brain’s dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitters.

“Reports have shown that churchgoers live an average 7 years longer than heathens. They report lower blood pressure, recover quicker from breast cancer, have better outcomes from coronary disease and rheumatoid arthritis, have greater success with IVF and are less likely to have children with meningitis.

“Patients with a strong “intrinsic faith” (a deep personal belief, not just a social inclination to go to a place of worship) recover 70 per cent faster from depression than those who are not deeply religious. “Religious activities enhance the prefrontal lobes, which helps inhibit impulses better,” says Patrick McNamara, associate professor of neurology at Boston University and author of The Neuroscience of Religious Experience and continued, “such as prayer, ritual, abstaining from alcohol, strengthen the ability of frontal lobes to control primitive impulses.”

“Such advantages aside, religions give their followers the benefits of a supportive social network – since research has shown lack of social contact can be more harmful to health than obesity, alcoholism and smoking 15 cigarettes a day. “Being part of a group is very important psychologically. In times of prosperity, people tend to question large movements, but during periods of economic stress, fundamentalist movements flourish,” says McNamara.

“Sceptics used to consider such fields flaky, but now their health benefits are proven – not least in the way they strengthen prefrontal lobes – it would be foolish to dismiss them. [What God does to your brain, by Julia Llewellyn Smith, 20 Jun 2014, The Telegraph]

“Is the human predisposition to religion cultural or biologic? Studies suggest that activation of certain cerebral networks spanning the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes are associated with spiritual states. “Thus, damage to these areas should alter some of these feelings, including self-transcendence. Transcendence refers to the ability to detach one's consciousness from the physical body, a type of spiritual experience. Transcendence is common to all faiths and is part of the so-called “religious state.”

“Spiritual experiences are as common today as in the past. Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks undergoing functional MR imaging (fMRI) during introspection showed changes in the prefrontal, cingulated cortex, temporal and parietal lobes, and in some subcortical areas. 4–8

“The activity of the serotonin brain system is probably genetically determined and is linked to varying degrees of self-transcendence and religious or spiritual experiences. 9

“Urgesi et al 10 found nearly 90 patients with different brain tumors (high- and low-grade gliomas, meningiomas) when posterior areas of the brain were removed, a significant and reliable increase in self-transcendence occurred. This change happened very soon after surgery and therefore was not considered an adaptive process.

“In a different study, 12 patients (6 religious) were evaluated with positron-emission tomography imaging while praying. 10 From memory, they recited Psalm 23 while undergoing cerebral blood flow studies. In this study, all religious subjects reported having attained a “religious state” during recitation and showed significantly increased blood flow to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

This contradicts the common belief that it is mainly the limbic system that is associated with faith beliefs. Religious beliefs may be a cognitive process mediated by pre-established neural circuits, (NeuroNetworks).“Beauregard and Paquette 5 performed fMRI in a series of Carmelite nuns while they reported being in a state of union with God. The Carmelite Sisters are the counterpart of the Carmelite Brothers, and both groups follow very strict dietary and religious beliefs and activities. The 15 Carmelites evaluated showed positive fMRI results but instead of activating only one region, 12 different regions were activated. Franciscan nuns seem to activate slightly different regions of their brains when praying. 11

“In both groups, the pre- and inferior-frontal regions were active during the tasks performed.

“Sigmund Freud dismissed spiritual experiences as pathology, but not surprisingly Carl Jung did not. The “Sacred Disease” of antiquity was refuted by Hippocrates who argued against the association of seizures and prophetic and mystical powers (for him seizures were just purely a brain dysfunction). In the New Testament, Matthew (17:14–20) witnessed Jesus curing a boy who presumably had epilepsy and this may be one source from which the association between epilepsy and religion comes.

Religion has been present throughout the history of humankind and some argue that humans should be called Homo religious rather than Homo sapiens. 13

More than one-half of American adults report a “spiritual” and life-changing experience. That includes people with many different personalities and backgrounds. Personality researchers propose 5 main dimensions of personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. These 5 traits probably define personality but need not all be present in one person. Religiousness is probably the 6th major dimension of personality. 13

Neurotheology is a new discipline that attempts to answer many of these questions with the use of functional neuroimaging and science. If the brain's serotonin system is implicated in religious experiences, can certain chemicals be used to duplicate these experiences? Some drugs, mainly LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, and peyote, are known to have chemical features similar to serotonin and share its receptors.

The medical student was told, “It is important to bear in mind that many American academics have strong spiritual beliefs. Approximately 40% of scientists and 7% of members of the National Academy of Sciences believe in a God and nearly 40% believe in human immortality. 20

“Religiousness is probably the 6th major dimension of personality.” 13 [Sixth Dimension and God's Helmet by by M. Castillo, American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2011, 32 (10) 1767-1768; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A2433]

Following the conflicting intersection of the 2 scenarios imagined, the 2 women astronauts' space walk, passing Jesus during the Rapture, the medical student finally understood, after a period of learning medical education truths and enlightenment, he will be prepared to expertly manage and treat his patients and the medical student finally understood, after a period of learning spiritual and Jesus truths and enlightenment,

Armed with the 'Strong Meat of Christiahn Discernment' and Truth”, the medical student would be prepared to expertly manage, treat, grow Neuroplastically, his Mental Neuronetworks for Spirituality and Soul, having surpassed the fundamental period and doctrine of 'Pure Spiritual Milk' for new believers, and rejecting the literal memes of myth, mystery and the supernatural life of Jesus in literal language, while realizing the importance of both the 'Pure Spiritual Milk' and the 'Strong Meat of Christian Discernment' for different stages of life.

The medical student also learned that SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS Evangelism (aka Advocacy), described in proper Christian terms, promotes, expands and distributes the SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS allegorical interpretations, which are a different language, message and semantics, to research, academic and employed scientists and doctors. Hopefully these semanics will deter the pursuit of Godlessness and Disbelief in the existence of God by these lost professionals, who are actually eager to practice Christianity. Many of these lost Souls were Sunday schooled as youth, but now reject the literal memes of myth, mystery and the supernatural life of Jesus. The medical student, many of us medical doctors and scientists are duty bound advocates and promote SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS. see Dr. Hameroff describes God this website: https://myscientistgod.us/dr-hameroff-describes-god

"A much-anticipated first all-female spacewalk by Astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch scheduled for Friday has been scrapped because the International Space Station is not carrying enough spacesuits in the right size to fit the women astronauts." [By Yuliya Talmazan, March 26, 2019, MACH]

Bible verses related to Discernment from the King James Version (KJV)

1 Kings 3:9 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Proverbs 2:1-5 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 3:1 - 6:35 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Matthew 10:16 - Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
John 7:24 - Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
·2 Corinthians 11:13-15 - For such [are] false apostles, dec
Philippians 1:9-10 - And this I pray, that your love maeitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
Colossians 2:8 - Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1 Timothy 6:3-5 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 5:14 - But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
James 1:5 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Out of respect for God, SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE CHRISTIANS do not recognize and promote the prefered proper title names for organizations of mind that the 2 accomplished women engineer astronaus, “Anne McClain and Christine Koch, aboard the International Space Station are about to set a record astronomical achievement for women.”

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SCIENTIFICALLY EDUCATED CHRISTIANS certainty

'The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), is a division of the peripheral nervous system that supplies smooth muscle and glands, and influences the function of internal organs.[1] The autonomic nervous system is a control system that acts largely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response, urination, and sexual arousal.[2] This system is the primary mechanism in control of the fight-or-flight response.

“Within the brain, the autonomic nervous system is regulated by the hypothalamus. Autonomic functions include control of respiration, cardiac regulation (the cardiac control center), vasomotor activity (the vasomotor center), and certain reflex actionssuch as coughing, sneezing, swallowing and vomiting.

“The autonomic nervous system has three branches:
1. the sympathetic nervous system,
2. the parasympathetic nervous system
3. and the enteric nervous system.[4][5][6][7]

“Some textbooks do not include the enteric nervous system as part of this system.[8] The sympathetic nervous system is often considered the "fight or flight" system, while the parasympathetic nervous system is often considered the "rest and digest" or "feed and breed" system. “In many cases, both of these systems have "opposite" actions where one system activates a physiological response and the other inhibits it. [3]

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1. "Autonomic nervous system" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary

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This research journalist’s Neuroanatomy instructor in 1964, ‘College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, formerly Graduate School of Medicine, and formerly University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., research scientist, Dr. Lois A. Gillilan M.D., PhD anatomy said, “The modern nervous system, has 2 fundamental parts

1. stimulus-response chains and

2. internally generated activity patterns

“Both types of activity interact with each other to generate the compete nervous system’s behavior. “The simplest type of neural circuit is a reflex arc, which begins with a sensory input and ends with a motor output, which passes through a sequence of neurons connected in series", (a Neuronetwork). the Neuronetworks are made-up from the 100 Billion Neuron Cells in each Human Brain. [Herculano-Houzel, Suzana (9 November 2009). "The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 3: 31. doi:10.3389/neuro.09.031.2009. PMC 2776484. PMID 19915731. ]

Dr. Gillilan was a student of Sir Charles Sherrington’s research, who published ‘the integrative action of the nervous system. (Sherrington 1906) 1. She was a fabulous Neuroanatomy instructor and a highly respected, precise Neuroanatomy investigator.

Dr. Gillilan continued remarks, "the human and other animals’ nervous systems (NS) coordinate their voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals to and between different parts of its body."

The NS more specifically has 2 main parts:

1. Central nervous system (CNS), the brain and spinal cord.

2. Peripheral nervous system (PNS) which has nerves, enclosed bundles of the long fibers or axons, that connected the CNS to every other part of the body.

The PNS includes
motor neurons, mediating voluntary movement;
the autonomic nervous system, comprising the
1. sympathetic nervous system and
2. parasympathetic nervous system, which regulates involuntary functions,
the enteric nervous system, which functions to control the gastrointestinal system. 2. 3. 4.

Dr. Gillilan stated that during the human process, certain Homo sapien-sapiens (Modern Anatomical, Cognitive Humans) viscera (innards, organs, guts, bowels) were conditioned and became active as outlets for emotional tension. Humans, Gillilan said, were the product of both their a. Genetic Constitution and b. Environmental, Social, and Cultural Conditions."

Dr. Gillian Continued, “when families congregate they compare and discuss relatives pictures, school, work, illness and religion but seldom compare and discuss the following

their mental conditions
resultant emotional expressions
family genetic predispositions
emotional expressions
and visceral reactions were never examined
Environmental, Social and Cultural Conditioning
Science

Underlying Humans were the 4 stress types that were experimentally determined when the Autonomic Nervous System was stimulated: Sympatheticotonic, Indifferent Type, Vagotonic and Amphotonic.

“Amphotonia is an Increased excitability of both parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.[Dr. Lois Gillilan]

Chronopsychobiological Regulation Diagnosis (CRD) assessed specific moods, stresses and strains in humans. Humans were categorized into so-called stress types, because they reacted differently physiologically, psychologically and behaviorally to environmental stimuli.

Institutions, religion and higher learning were designated for the cultivation of civilization’s apostolicity, in that vein meaning a balanced stressor response. “Human Amphotonicty was rarely achieved,” said Dr. Gillilan. 5. “Traumatic stress can be associated with lasting changes in certain brain areas.” The areas of the Brain involved in the stress response includes the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex. 6. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) discloses detailed various stimuli, incidents, mood and stress reactions to stressors at critical times in all of life’s journey.

Emotional and Dysautonomic disturbances were seldom discovered. Everyone has both a personal and family history.

Dr. Gillilan stated, “Books and autobiographies are somewhat psychologically safe to read. They can be read and the characters’ pain and suffering can be imagined without living the actual experience,” she said.

Personal destructive pain in the course of the experience is avoided by reading the book; not living the life.

Neuroanatomy instructor, ‘College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, formerly Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. Lois A. Gillilan M.D., PhD anatomy, said, “Books and autobiographies are somewhat safe psychologically to read. When read, the characters’ pain and suffering can be imagined without living the actual experience.”

Reading the Holy Bible and listening to ministries are similar. The pain and suffering Jesus experienced more than 2000 years ago can be faintly imagined by Humans without living his actual experience. Distant stories and histories about the history of Jesus sometimes leave believers in supernatural doubt-ful-ness. But pain, suffering, heartache, joy and happiness, that Humans experience are sensed and memorized real-time and discovered and documented by scientists like Dr. Gillilan was and measured with radiographic brain scans, blood chemistry, biophysics and EEG and the modern nervous system.

Dr. Gillian stated, “Civilization’s basic needs have varied with the passing of time. Human conditions have dramatically changed.”

Gillilan resumed, “Civilization was the restraint of emotional expression from various stimuli and the process of conditioning people to achieve that end, which was the difference in civilizations.”

And so, it is now. Civilization’s understanding of Science, Natural, Reasonable, Rational, non-Supernatural Explanations of Intelligent Design Creation, Medicine, Science and Scientific Christianity are imperative.

During this research journalist’s medical education, Dr. Gillilan described the 2 fundamental brain parts in 1964 which have been even more well defined, published and educated with EEGs and photographs of the Soul, resulting in doubt-less-ness and emotional balance for Scientific Christians.

Dysautonomia or autonomic dysfunction is a condition in which the autonomic nervous system(ANS) does not work properly. This may affect the functioning of the heart, bladder, intestines, sweat glands, pupils, and blood vessels. Dysautonomia has many causes, not all of which may be classified as neuropathic.[4] A number of conditions can feature dysautonomia, such as Parkinson's disease, HIV/AIDS, multiple system atrophy, autonomic failure, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and autonomic neuropathy.

The diagnosis is achieved through functional testing of the ANS, focusing on the affected organ system [4. Wilfred McSherry's article on the Journal of Advanced Nursing: Dilemmas of spiritual assessment: considerations for nursing practice] [Wikipedia]

“Spiritual distress is a disturbance in a person's belief system. A "disruption in the life principle that pervades a person's entire being and that integrates and transcends one's biological and psychological nature."[1]

"Spiritual pain, is evidenced by expressions of discomfort of suffering relative to one's relationship with God, verbalization of feelings of having a void or lack of spiritual fulfillment, and/or a lack of peace in terms of one's relationship to one's Creator.

Other Spiritual Disorders/Diagnoses: spiritual pain, spiritual alienation, spiritual anxiety, spiritual guilt, spiritual loss, spiritual despair, and spiritual anger. [North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA), 1999, page 67]

The philosophy of Scientific Christian Certainty proclaims the following concepts:
From knowledge of epistemologically, Scientific Christian Certainty is a method of inquiry about God, Creation, the Universe and the modern world. An extremely social human activity, science is an important institution and practice.
Science has been credited with most of the goodwill, altruism and progress in the world. Scientific knowledge is often held to be the major intellectual accomplishment of the Western world.
Spiritual Disorders/Diagnoses can be averted and avoided by understanding and practicing the following:
God is truth and reality; God needs no supernatural shroud;
God is humility; God requires no haughty philosophical descriptions, no kingdom of gold
God is love and craves no wealth; God only calls for richness of the Human heart
God needs dedication, obedience and righteousness which requires strength, courage, honesty, words of wisdom and patience;
God needs not myths, delusions, promises, fallacies and erroneous beliefs.
God is all powerful and omnipotent. Our God of the Bible and Creator of the Universe and is Our God of All Power.
Our God is not fear of death, sadness and sorrow.
Our God doesn’t require a transient learned emotional high, but responds to all Human emotions
Our God is always with us. God is encoded and is an inhabitant in each Human Brain, awaiting willfull conscious activation
To believe-in and worship God is an inborn obligation and joyful intrinsic inheritance
Scientific Christians are content, satisfied, happy, emotionally balanced, enjoy doubt-less Belief-in and worship-of God and praise of Jesus for teaching how to worship
God’s Scientific Truth promotes Christian certainty
"There is something to be said for a man who dies happy."

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7. Gillilan, L.A. 1955 Angioarchitecture of the human brainstem, Anat. Rec.,121: 299

8. Gillilan, L.A. 1957 The Arterial and venous Blood supply of the human spinal cord. Anat. Rec.,127: 466

9. Gillilan L. 1958. The arterial blood supply of the human spinal cord. J Comp Neurol 110:75-103

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PERCEPTION OF PASTORS FELL TO A RECORD LOW IN 2018

"Though the Bible describes shepherds of the church as “blameless,” (Titus 1:6), “upright” (Titus 1:8), and “above reproach” (1 Tim. 3:2), Americans—even Christians—take a much more pessimistic view."

"Fewer than half of American Christians (42%) believe clergy have “high” or “very high” standards of honesty and ethics, according to breakouts provided to Christianity Today.

"Self-identified Christians were about as likely to rate clergy’s ethical standards as just average (43%), and about 1 in 10 (12%) considered them “low” or “very low.”

"Among Americans as a whole, trust in the clergy fell to 37%, making it the 8-most-trusted profession in the U.S., ranking below multiple medical professions, teachers, and police and just above journalists and building contractors.

Americans Rate professionals according their Trustworthiness, Honesty and Ethical standards. The highest % Professionals have the most Honest and Ethical Standards and lowest % Professionals have the least % of Honest and Ethical Standards. [Gallop Survey Dec 3 to 12, 2018]

Nurses 84%
Medical Doctors 67%
Pharmacists 66%
High School Teachers 60%
Police Officers 54%
Accounts 42%
Funeral directors 39%
Clergy 37%
Journalists 33%
Building Contractors 29%
Bankers 27%
Real estate Agents 26%
Labor Union Leaders 21%
Lawyers 19%
Business executives 17%
Stockbrokers 14%/
Advertising Practioners 13%
Telemarketers 9%
Car Salespeople 8%
Members of Congress 8% [Gallop Survey Dec 3 to 12, 2018]

" Over the last 40 years, Gallup has measured the country’s view of the trustworthiness of faith leaders along with a range of other professions. Clergy trust peaked in 1985, when two-thirds of Americans said clergy had a “high” or “very high” honesty and ethical standard.

That percentage hovered in the high 50s throughout the 1990s, until dropping to 52 percent in 2002 around the height of the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. Though Americans’ ratings of their clergy rallied slightly, they’ve been on a steady downward trajectory for most of the last decade.

“These latest low ratings on the clergy come on the heels of more investigations into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in the US,” state Gallup researchers. [The 7 People Christians Trust More Than Their Pastors Gallup’s latest poll finds Americans now believe clergy (at a record low) are nearly as honest and ethical as journalists (at a record high). by Griffin Paul Jackson, Jan 4, 2019 ChristianityToday.com]

This Scientific Christian reporter was trained and certified with many other doctors by C.A.R.E. in 2009 to ravel to doctors' offices and to instruct physicians and their office staff in their community based offices about how to recognize Child Abuse. C.A.R.E. is a division of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky. C.A.R.E. is a division of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky.

Child Abuse Recognition Education is a very important endeavor. The mission of C.A.R.E. (Child Abuse Recognition Education) is to develop, support and grow a statewide network of doctors, key medical personnel and medical office staff who have committed themselves to ensuring the children in their communities are free from all types of abuse, including sexual abuse, and neglect, as a result of receiving office-based training from their medical peers.” [Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, http://www.pcaky.org/care.html]

An example of supports the pessimistic view: "An Evangelist plead guilty to all sex abuse charges in Etowah County, Alabama. The Evangelist plead guilty to 10 different counts involving 3 victims who were between the ages of 12 and 16 at the time. At least 2 of the victims said the Evangelist offered them 100s of dollars to perform sexual acts.

"Two of the counts could bring a maximum sentence of 99 years in prison. Judge Debra Jones was prepared to have a sentencing hearing in the next 30 days. Before the trial the Evangelist's attorney released this statement to WVTM 13's Sarah Killian: "The Evangelist decided he wanted to accept his responsibility for his actions and not put any of the victims through a trial.

"His strong faith has allowed him to follow this path. There are mitigating factors that we feel contributed to his actions and these will be revealed by our experts at the sentencing hearing which Judge Jones will be setting." [Former evangelist pleads guilty to sex abuse charges in Etowah County, Alabama Dec 2, 2019 WVTM TV 13]

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