Victor de Melo Fernandes
Science has finally caught up with the Scriptures! In this changed scenario we need to bring science in the church. God has made science and science has not made God. Therefore we need to give credit to God whilst providing scientific explanation of facts. We cannot live God out of the equation. The very opening chapter of Genesis in the Bible states that “Man is made in the image of God”. Therefore God is awesome and amazing. He has made this whole universe and this complex human body. He has made Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkings, and all of us. Albert Einstein possessed one of the super brains of our times. This was the product of the Creator. Science tells us that our brain is like more than a super computer capable of holding billions of memory. Therefore the creator is amazing.
Dr Caroline Leaf a neuroscientist in her book “Switch on your Brain” has explained our brain to be powerful organ. She says that the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a result of our taught life. What we think about, truly affects us both physically and emotionally. Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic taught that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for diseases.
Your Brain Can Change, and So Can Your Thinking Knowing our gift—how we uniquely think—is only the beginning of how we can fulfill our God-given potential. We must then make the most of our thinking by building healthy thought patterns and removing toxic, unhealthy thinking. In other words, we must rewire our brains.
The Bible refers to this process in Romans 12:2 as renewing the mind. Dr. Leaf calls it rewiring toxic thoughts to overcome our gift-blockers.
The good news is, your brain is remarkably flexible. Scientific research has shown that the brain can change. In fact, the brain can actually get better as we age, as Dr Leaf points out. “The older you get, the better your brain. As you age, your brain matures. The more you use your brain, the better it gets and the more intelligent you become. You can even stimulate the brain to the point where major change can happen.” In other words, we can renew our minds, cast down wrong thinking, and change our thought life. And science proves it. The process is called neuroplasticity.
Both good and bad thoughts create structures in the brain, which are our thoughts. Scans of the brain reveal these structures, which resemble trees and are called neurons. When the Bible talks about a tree being known by its fruits (Matthew 12:33), it could easily be describing what brain science reveals about our thinking processes. Healthy thoughts build a healthy tree which leads to clear thinking and good decisions. Unfortunately, toxic thoughts also build structures in the brain. Wrong thinking literally impedes the flow of our thoughts, much like a roadblock keeps a car from reaching its destination. This hinders us.
It can also make us sick, because negative thoughts are reflected in the body and mind as illness. Depression, anxiety, all kinds of diseases have been linked to our thought life. For this reason, it is important to guard our thought life and get rid of the toxic thinking that acts as a giftblocker.
Unless we get rid of these toxic gift blockers, they stay in our brain, and they are going to affect us. Gift-blockers result in the wrong activity in the brain. In other words, the brain can’t function as fully as it should because there will be electrical chemical chaos from the toxic thoughts. The whole brain is affected, and in a negative way.
