Part 3
In review of the body in figure
#1, the nervous system resembles a tree. At the crown of the tree, therein
lies the brain, and within the brain is the faculty of the mind.
Minds are the capacity of the
brain to process information that is received from the nervous system, which in
turn, processes information from all the sensory nerves throughout the body.
The nervous system collects knowledge
of all kinds from the environment. The information can be categorized as
pleasurable, precautionary, hurtful, or responsive. The senses, of course, are
touch, smell, taste, vision, and hearing. Some add many other senses, savory as
an example, and perhaps up to twenty-nine in total.
The information from all those “sensors” is conducted to the brain via neurons that transmit electrical signals to target cells — the synapses — which are located throughout the nervous system and especially the brain. To pass information along requires the synapses to fire to pass along the information. They are like electrical switches triggered much like a diode would be in an electrical system, or even triggered by chemical signals.
The nervous system, therefore, is
a sort of “tree of life,” but at the same time, “a tree of impending doom.” It
passes all types of information to the high-capacity processer of the mind inside
the brain. The brain is the vessel of the mind, and the mind is its contents,
the former is material, and the latter is merely thoughts made up of electrical
and chemical transactions.
To add evidence to that, synapses
contain mitochondria which are the vessels for DNA that are passed along from
the mother only. Hence, Eve as the “mother of all living” and the genesis of
sin passed along her synapses to everyone, even subsequent “Adams” (men). Is it
coincidence that mitochondria are the vessels for genetic sin and synapses pass
along that information? You be the judge.
The nervous system is the
entire body of nerves along with the brain.
Now, consider the “Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil.” Speaking to Adam, God said, “Of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen 2:17). The Hebrew translated “eat” and “eatest”
is specifically used for partaking of things by mouth, but in general it is to consume
anything, even tasting or sensing the things of the world.
With that said, perhaps Adam and
Eve never ate from the tree, but consumed something, perhaps knowledge
that they had not known before. It was a “Tree of Knowledge” for certain, but not
an apple tree (which was a mistranslation) nor even a fig tree per se,
but a tree of knowledge.
Perhaps it was not that they ate,
whether it was a physical tree or not, but that they bought into and consumed
false information from the cunning Beast who presented its version of the
truth.
Even if it was a fig tree, as
sacred literature indicates, that tree may have also been symbolic of an invisible
tree from an invisible creature — Lucifer. As related before, both the fleshes
and minds of Adam and Eve were altered; their fleshes and minds degenerated,
both from only good to an admixture of good and evil.
First off, they were never totally
depraved, and sinners still are not. However, they were iniquitous, meaning
that they had depravity within their fleshes and minds.
The “flesh” is paramount in
scripture. Righteousness is fulfilled by those who “walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit” (Rom 8:4), and
also regarding the two substances of humans, Jesus said, “The spirit truly is
ready, but the flesh is weak” so we are not to enter into temptation (Mark
14:38).
Eve entered into temptation; she
trespassed wherein Adam was told not to go. Where she went, there was new information beyond what she had before.
Lucifer, cleverly disguised as a friendly
beast, provided to her both truth and lies and blended them to fabricate a new
doctrine. The new doctrine: Because you are a creature of God, you can do
anything and not die. Lucifer uses that same doctrine to deceive Christians
to this day! You are secure and can do whatever you will do. The
Satanist, Anton LeVey uses that same law for the same behavior, “Do what thou
wilt; that is the whole law.”
Perhaps rather than eating fruit
from the tree, they consumed the lie. The lie was for them to do what
they wilt and not die. The Law was that they were not to consume anything
from that tree. It was the whole Law of God. Lucifer abridged that law and made
the one new law — do what thou wilt.
Their minds were changed as well
as their genomes. Sin became genetic and all are born in sin, and are said to
be “in the flesh” compared to “in the Spirit.”
It may be that they ate when they
were not designed to eat. That makes sense because their image was as
God. The Book of Adam and Eve indicates that they had no digestive
tracks until after they had sinned, so consuming manna from heaven makes sense,
rather than herbs.
It should be obvious that the
fleshes of the two changed as well; they were no longer glorious, but gullible
and ugly inside. The nervous system is the ugliness inside people, but perhaps
the cunning one convinced Eve that flesh was all pleasure. As such, Eve may
have thought, If I change, then I can enjoy the things of God more so, and
have more pleasure! Perhaps Eve consumed the lie that the nervous system
would provide only good things that were pleasurable because the cunning
one failed to mention that it would sense all things, both good and bad!
“Unto the woman He (God) said, ‘I
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee’” (Gen 3:16). Eve would feel pleasure in conception, but pleasure would
turn to agony at delivery. That was the good and bad of the nervous system and
points to that as the “Tree of Knowledge.”
For Adam, it was a little different;
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” (Gen 3:19). Don’t count on pleasure
Adam, for you it will be toil. The nervous system senses toil; itself perhaps a
sixth sense.
Because the nervous system is
within all the flesh, and even the bones and brain, then the flesh is the weakest
link in what was once a glorious creature. The flesh is the “missing link”
between the glorious soul and the inglorious person. Evolution missed that, but
God did not!
The nervous system conducts whatever
the sensory system consumes. The destination of all that input, or knowledge,
is the brain for it to process all the knowledge. The left brain does that!
Some people have had, for various
reasons, one side or the other of the brain, destroyed. They can still function
somewhat normally even though half their minds have perished, but they function
differently.
The left brain is the “judge” of
sorts. It gets all the knowledge that is received via the nervous system
and decides (cognition) whether it is good or bad information. If it is bad for
survival, it is not passed along to the right brain to use to function, but
stored away in long-term memory, perhaps even in the sub-conscience. As
Seinfeld would say, “I put it in the vault.”
Pain is allowed through because it
protects both the flesh and mind from harm. It can judge based on safety, and
that is good!
On the other hand, the left brain
can allow temptation to trespass its convolutions and allow it to enter the
right brain to perform. So, “Pray that ye enter not into temptation” (Luke
22:40) because, like Eve, temptation leads to sin if the left side of the brain
judges wrongly. Eve looked at the “fruit” and decided to her chagrin that
consuming it would be admissible, and that God had lied to her.
“Praying” in that passage is
asking God to forbid the trespass of information never to enter.
The problem with the left brain
is that it can be conned. The “Image” of Lucifer conned Eve.
She rationalized that she was not trespassing on God’s
property but it was hers just for the taking; then Eve stole God’s fruit and
ate it. Upon ingesting whatever “fruit” or “seeds” that they were, Eve changed
genetically, and her flesh became her master as she did what she willed
to do.
She, herself, soon willed
Cain into being. Adam had nothing to do with it. Either Satan was her new lord
or herself (Gen 4:1). (I believe that she lied to Adam and the “Wicked One,” Satan,
conceived Cain within her and she thought that she had done so herself. She had
become the “god.”)
The flesh became the enemy but the
world still provides ways to allow misjudgment of the left brain, to wit: “Be
sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
What happens with insobriety? Vigilance
is gone. People drink to excess to reduce inhibitions, and with God’s prohibitions
disallowed, then judgment is impeded.
Take for instance alcohol and
drug usage. They change who you are! Without prohibitions inhibiting, then those
who consume mind-altering drugs do whatever they want to do. The faculty of the
will is deluded, and the left brain allows about anything into the right brain
for it to transmit performance to the nervous system for the flesh to do.
The flesh is the enemy because it
is essentially the other “unknown god” that must be appeased. The nervous
system transmits pleasurable impulses to the left brain and when the left brain
is unvigilant for whatever reason, then the right brain signals the body to
perform unrightly according to God’s standards.
Vigilance is not only destroyed
by things put into the mouth and the body in general, but the things put into
the mind. If the mind is off God, then all things are allowed through the left
brain, and then the right side of the brain enjoys pleasure.
If the sensor passes along thoughts
of pleasure and forbids thoughts of God to enter in, then the left brain passes
pleasurable things to the right brain, and the body with its flesh gets
confused and does things that feel good while not receiving the
information that it might be hurtful.
Many who have engaged in one night
stands may be in agony or worry the next morning because of the thoughts of
venereal disease, or even guilt.
My conclusion, therefore, is that
even if there was a fruit tree of some sorts… that the nervous system is the
“Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil” and is inside each person. My hope is
that you see it the same way; the reason being, that you must have the Word to
control your flesh, and that there are painful consequences of faulty thinking and
bad behaviors; and that Adam and Eve exhibited those consequences in their
nervous systems until God put coats on them to cover their fleshes.
The fiery darts of the wicked one
would thence never enter their fleshes, but be shielded by the flesh
that God provided. That “flesh” is now the Holy Ghost of Jesus that Comforts the
Christian from the wiles of the Devil.
Why else would a sinner require persuasion to become a Christian; it is in the mind in the left side of the brain. Why else would Calvary — “The Cranium” — be imperative as the “shield”?
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