Christians and Neurology

[Dorothy Mae]

It's usually small things, simple things. Like having the nagging impulse to pick up the phone and call somebody that you normally wouldn't call. And then when you do, you find out that person really needed that phone call. Or you get an idea in your head with no clue why it is mulling around in there until you find out why you needed it.

A pastor friend recounted to me recently that she had gotten up, gotten her coffee, and was settled in to do her morning devotionals before the rest of the household woke up, and she started getting a sermon in her head that just came coming almost too fast for her to write down. And when it was done she was irritated that it had taken up all that time, and for what purpose? What for? I grinned and asked her when she preached it. She smiled and said that very morning. She was called to give the lesson for a friend who had gotten il.

I usually never know where it is going, but it's a great ride.

Ok I see what you mean. That wasn’t what I was referring to in asking what information. The above I call guidance. I was talking about answers to questions of understanding.

The pastors experience I find rather odd because when the living God gives me input, I generally find it a very pleasant and inspiring experience. I was only irritated with Him once in my life for giving unasked for info. I think He laughed. I did too, later. I mean what’s the point of a devotional except to talk with God. I don’t understand being irritated if God started talking first.

 

[Tayla]

My main issue comes with not knowing how much is tied to the body and how much to a non-comporeal entity, namely the soul.

My view is that conscious thoughts, sensations, and feelings correlate with the brain exactly as materialist scientists claim. Where they are wrong is their insistence there is no spiritual realm having our individual soul. Mental, rational, and conscious experiences and activities are spiritual, not physical. The brain merely communicates with the soul, and the soul ponders things using its spiritual capabilities, then communicates back to the brain what it wishes the body to do.

Memories are stored in the soul, not in the brain. The links to our memories are stored in the brain which activates the memories exactly as materialist scientists claim. But the subjective experience of consciously remembering is spiritual, not material.