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I have been thinking about this for some time and would love everyone's feedback. All the pictures of Jesus I have seen painted always portray him as a 33 year old, and I believe this is incorrect.
Science tells me that it takes 7 years for every cell in the body to be replaced. In the first 3 cycles of 7 years we see the transformation of a infant to child; child to teen, and teen to adult. After 21 the growth process ends and the 7 year cycles are to replace the cells.
I realized when I first understood this that this is the reason we age. Because of sin in us our bodies do not replicate the cells exactly right and are a little off. Similar to a copy machine making copies of copies you get a deterioration in picture quality that eventually no longer looks like the first picture. Likewise with us; with each passing cycle of 7 years we age and look older until the cycle is so far off we die of natural causes.
Even with children growing to adulthood the effect of sin on their bodies is evident with blemishes, pimples, moles, etc. They just are not as noticeable due to the extreme changes occurring with their maturation.
But not so with Jesus. He was sinless from birth. Therefore he never had pimples or any other blemish, nor any sickness. When he reached twenty one, the next 7 year cycle would have perfectly replaced their cells, so at 28 he still looked 21. Likewise when he died at 33, five years into his next 7 year cycle, he would have still looked 21.
If God still uses this system when we get our glorified bodies, then we will all look 21 for ever.
BTW, as a side note, if men can say they are women trapped in a man's body, I think I am a 21 year old trapped in a 63 year old body, and I should get special rights .
Ammendment to Post
Oct 11, 2016
I apparently began this thread in the wrong forum. I did not realize that Traditional Theology was limited and my post would be considered controversial. Indeed, I have been called a heretic by a couple responders.
My intention in posting the topic was to get feed back. Thank you everyone for your feed back, including those who disagree and called me a heretic. Iron sharpens iron, and I have much to consider. Some brought up points that caused me to reconsider my idea. One pointed out that the brain does not fully mature until 25, and another considered the entrance of puberty as maturation. I acknowledged that the virgin Mary might have been a teen between 13 and 15 when she consented for he Holy Spirit to come upon her so she could birth Jesus.
Another commentor thought my idea interesting but what was the point? What benefit to us now does this have? I understand the idea is an academic idea. As I told another, apart from the deity and humanity of Christ coming to redeem us and our need to realize that we are sinners in need of salvation so the Holy Spirit may enter us and give us the new birth, everything else is academic.
Of course, we need to understand and apply those practical elements of our faith -walking humbly with our God, leaning not on our own understanding, but trusting him while forgiving and loving others - for our discipleship.
I have been ruminating on an idea, of which the idea of sin causing aging through slight error in replication of the cells is one part of this larger idea. The larger idea I am thinking about is what righteous living means. Jesus obeyed all the laws of God, not just the Mosaic laws, but the laws of nature in the physical world, as well as the laws of the spirit from the spiritual world. He did so by only doing what his Father led him to do.
I think that part of our discipleship now in this fallen world is to learn how to do the same so that we obey all the physical and spiritual laws of creation. I think it is possible in the New Heaven and Earth that we will live the same way with the potential of harm if we disregard that leading.
Thank you again, everyone for your feedback. I have taken everyone's comments to heart in serious considerations.
Science tells me that it takes 7 years for every cell in the body to be replaced. In the first 3 cycles of 7 years we see the transformation of a infant to child; child to teen, and teen to adult. After 21 the growth process ends and the 7 year cycles are to replace the cells.
I realized when I first understood this that this is the reason we age. Because of sin in us our bodies do not replicate the cells exactly right and are a little off. Similar to a copy machine making copies of copies you get a deterioration in picture quality that eventually no longer looks like the first picture. Likewise with us; with each passing cycle of 7 years we age and look older until the cycle is so far off we die of natural causes.
Even with children growing to adulthood the effect of sin on their bodies is evident with blemishes, pimples, moles, etc. They just are not as noticeable due to the extreme changes occurring with their maturation.
But not so with Jesus. He was sinless from birth. Therefore he never had pimples or any other blemish, nor any sickness. When he reached twenty one, the next 7 year cycle would have perfectly replaced their cells, so at 28 he still looked 21. Likewise when he died at 33, five years into his next 7 year cycle, he would have still looked 21.
If God still uses this system when we get our glorified bodies, then we will all look 21 for ever.
BTW, as a side note, if men can say they are women trapped in a man's body, I think I am a 21 year old trapped in a 63 year old body, and I should get special rights .
Ammendment to Post
Oct 11, 2016
I apparently began this thread in the wrong forum. I did not realize that Traditional Theology was limited and my post would be considered controversial. Indeed, I have been called a heretic by a couple responders.
My intention in posting the topic was to get feed back. Thank you everyone for your feed back, including those who disagree and called me a heretic. Iron sharpens iron, and I have much to consider. Some brought up points that caused me to reconsider my idea. One pointed out that the brain does not fully mature until 25, and another considered the entrance of puberty as maturation. I acknowledged that the virgin Mary might have been a teen between 13 and 15 when she consented for he Holy Spirit to come upon her so she could birth Jesus.
Another commentor thought my idea interesting but what was the point? What benefit to us now does this have? I understand the idea is an academic idea. As I told another, apart from the deity and humanity of Christ coming to redeem us and our need to realize that we are sinners in need of salvation so the Holy Spirit may enter us and give us the new birth, everything else is academic.
Of course, we need to understand and apply those practical elements of our faith -walking humbly with our God, leaning not on our own understanding, but trusting him while forgiving and loving others - for our discipleship.
I have been ruminating on an idea, of which the idea of sin causing aging through slight error in replication of the cells is one part of this larger idea. The larger idea I am thinking about is what righteous living means. Jesus obeyed all the laws of God, not just the Mosaic laws, but the laws of nature in the physical world, as well as the laws of the spirit from the spiritual world. He did so by only doing what his Father led him to do.
I think that part of our discipleship now in this fallen world is to learn how to do the same so that we obey all the physical and spiritual laws of creation. I think it is possible in the New Heaven and Earth that we will live the same way with the potential of harm if we disregard that leading.
Thank you again, everyone for your feedback. I have taken everyone's comments to heart in serious considerations.
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