Here is the first installment of a series setting forth persuasive evidence that the Bible is objectively true.  I am surprised that there exists a need for me to do this type of exposition, because I would think that others would have already accomplished these things in detail, things which appear self evident enough to me.  But as I look around, I do not find clear, concise, presentation of the analytical arguments for Christianity.  There are a large number of evidences, extremely rational and hard-fact based persuasive positions, to consider.

In no particular order, I shall just plunge in.

While the authors and book are liberal themselves, the book How God Changes Your Brain presents objective and factual subject matter which supports, stripped of its rhetoric, the face value reading of the facts the Bible asserts.

The book is a summation of conclusions reached through voluminous research in the field of neuroscience.  Andrew Newberg, MD and Mark Waldman are authors (NW).  What I find fascinating about the book is that if you are capable of filtering out the authors commentary-bias, which is unsupported and dogmatically liberal, the factual content of the book compels the reader towards a factual, objective, unequivocal, real-world God.  And that’s not the god of the liberals.

But returning to the main point, science everywhere supports the face-value and objective statements of Scripture, and does so before the eyes of both conservative Christian scientists, and before the eyes of every other persuasion of scientist as well.  Though world-views and biases come packaged with the prose, we will to large extent seek to side-step the world-view of the authors and report to you the compelling nature of the facts that are available for digestion.

Newberg & Waldman, Ballantine books, 2009

The book begins with a quote:

“Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the discovers of objective truth.” –Albert Einstein.

The quote isn’t bad, but it misses the ultimate point. Proclaimers of high moral standards are revealers and discoverers of objective truth.  But that’s a digression.

What I do here is state a quote from the book, a factual assertion that the authors are presenting as a result, a conclusion of their (peer reviewed, physical laboratory) studies. I note their statements by placing a page number after each.  I then intersperse the statement from the Bible that as asserted this fact, or advocates the positive behaviour.

I shall have to return to this post many times to fill in the Bible verses.  Bear with me while I complete it.

U of Pennsylvania neuroscientists, after studying the brain & God for
15 years then state:

“God can change your brain.” (p4)

Where NW assert God changes your brain, the Bible states that if your brain is changed, you will know the will of God.  So, the statements are not equivalent, but interestingly related.

“…be transformed by the ^(E)renewing of your mind, so that you may ^(F)prove what the will of God is…” Rom 12:2b

“If you see God as a vindictive deity…such a belief can actually
damage your brain…” (p5)

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;There is no health in my bones because of my sin. – Ps 38:3

Contrastingly:

1 John 4:7
[ God Is Love ] Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

There have been recent books, “…The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins,
The End of Faith, Sam Harris; and God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens – that argue that religious beliefs are personally and societally dangerous. But the research, as we will outline throughout this book, strongly suggests otherwise.” “…particularly disappointed with the lack of empirical evidence that these writers have cited…” (p11)

It is not surprising to me that people who wish to factually assert the non-existence of an infinite, all power being, use only rhetoric and not objective evidence.  It is intellectually dishonest to try to base such a position on evidence.  What evidence, one wonders, could you site? The huge vastness of the nothingness you cataloged one mid-summer’s morning? The complete inventory of all the rocks you checked under for God? Atheism is not an evidentiary position, it is an irrational faith position.  The Bible calls it foolishness.

¹ The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there is no one who does good. -Ps 53:1

“Spiritual practices….enhance neural functioning…in ways that
improve physical and emotional health.” (p6)

fear the LORD and shun evil.

⁸ This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones. Pr3:7b-8

“Spiritual practices…enhance cognition, communication…creativity”

Cognition & Communication:
The mouth of the [Godly] righteous utters wisdom Ps 37:30

Creativity:

In the beginning God created…[everything]   God created man…in the image of God He created him…

Cognition:

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Ps 111:10

“Health benefits associated with meditation and religious ritual cannot
be denied.” (p7)

“Spiritual practices…improve memory…slow down neurological damage
caused by growing old…” Ch2

“…God becomes neurologically real…” Ch3

“these [religious] experiences often generate long lasting states of
unity, peacefulness, and love” Ch4  (they do MRIs on praying Nuns)

“…psychiatrist Vicktor Frankl…imprisoned in a Nazi death
camp…said that the single most important thing that kept a survivor alive was faith.”

“Not only are we neurologically inclined to act selfishly, but we are
also neurologically equipped to detect acts of selfishness …in others.
When we do, we unconsciously react in a punitive, authoritarian manner.” If a person “dwells obsessively” on the conflict between his altruistic and
authoritarian/selfish natures, “he or she can do as much damage to the
brain as a lifetime of alcohol and drugs.” (p135)

“When researchers…introduced the concept of God during
a..competition…participants acted more generously toward their
opponent….”
(p136)

“Studies have shown…the more compassionate we become, the more
generous those around us become. And when we perceive others as being sensitive to our needs, our brains respond with greater generosity…” (p137)

“Negative remarks and memories are more strongly encoded in the brain,
and they are the most difficult memories to eradicate.”  (p141)

“In essence, our brains are designed to mimic the emotional expressions
of others…” (P141)

“No matter how you look at it, exposure to, or expression of, any form
of anger is hazardous, not only to the health of the individual, but to society as well…”

“The number one best way to exercise your brain  Faith.” (p163)

“The second best way to exercise your brain   Dialog with others.”
(p162)

[I interject: i.e. the golden rules]

“The eight best…Smile.  …the mere act helps to interrupt mood
disorders and strengthen the brain’s neural ability to maintain a positive
outlook…”
(p151)

“Third best…aerobic exercise…”

“If we don’t have faith that we’re making the best decision we can,
then we will be swallowed up in doubt.  And doubt, at least as far as your brain is concerned, is a precarious state in which to live.” (p164)

“Faith is essential for maintaining a healthy brain…” (p 165)

“Focus on God long enough, and God becomes neurologically real….And
if you intensely focus on wealth, monetary issues will permeate your mind and influence your behavior in the world.” (p167)

“With practice, you can build up to twenty to forty minutes a day,
which may be the ideal range of time to enhance the neural functioning of your brain.”
(p175)

“I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my
meditation.” -Psalm 119:99 (NASB)

“Anger is defense…In relationships…If we express it [anger] openly
we stimulate defensive neural circuits in the other person. Thus, whoever
gets angry first…will lose the argument.” (p201)

“Like intimacy, compassion is associated with greater emotional and
psychological health.” (p215)

“…it takes most people 4 to 8 months to go 21 days without
complaining…” p240

If you wanted the Islamist countries to remain firmly in control of the oil, and if you wanted the price of oil to remain high, say if you had an interest in existing oil wells, would it upset you if the USA’s public turned wholesale on offshore drilling?

Read this:

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It is a fact that the Chairman of the Board of Directors of BP is Peter D. Sutherland KCMG.  Sutherland also happens to be Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International.  He is also on the membership for the Trilateral Commission.

Count among Sutherland clout his name, “The Father of Globalization” and that without him there would be “no WTO.”

Goldman Sachs may be Obama’s biggest backer.

Note that there is also a link between Goldman Sachs and the Corexit dispersant used by BP. (Google Goldman Sachs Corexit).

Speaking of reading crystal balls with a Midas touch: Transocean is the company which leased and operated Deep Water Horizon for BP.

Goldman Sachs shorted Transocean stock days before the disaster

Read More at Canada Free Press…

You may read here a curse I placed on the American Academy of Pediatrics.

I am hereby withdrawing, rescinding, the curse, to the extent that the Lord wills and decides is possible and right.  The evil people, who had previously announced that liberalism’s brilliant sense of compromise lead them to the practice of American doctors ritually slashing the clitoris’ of defenseless little girls…have announced that their idea was wrong and that they won’t do it anymore.

Well thank God.

Its a victory for anyone who cares about anything at all anywhere.

I couldn’t concieve of a cowardice or an evil greater than a bunch of American DOCTORS coming out in FAVOR of female genital mutilation all because they were terrified of Islamists.

Now that they have repented, let’s learn the lesson:

Unloading on the absolutely evil people for doing the absolutely evil thing is the right thing to do because it reverses the evil, obliterates it.

No apologies from me.

American dollars are disappearing.

The greenback is essentially a debt-note.  When you grab a dollar as it passes by you, its on its way from someone who owes a debt to someone who is owed money.  When we see the total number of dollars dropping quickly, despite the fact that the Federal Reserve is offering zero-percent interest to banks, it means one thing.

Debts are getting paid back, and no new debts are being taken out.

In other words, capital projects are not getting off the ground, and whatever money people have, they are putting towards their debts.

The banks are, of course, furious.  Larry Summers is pushing Congress right now for a brand new round of “stimulus”.  In other words, Summers wants Congress to borrow $200B from the banks who are not managing to lend to the rest of America.

See, when you aren’t borrowing money, and when you are paying back your debts, the banks are beside themselves with panic.  They have no relevance in such a situation.  They need you to borrow and borrow and borrow.

But what’s causing them an even greater panic is that their entire program of devaluing the dollars in your wallet through money-printing and therefore inflation, isn’t working.  If capital projects were borrowing money, if people were spending it, if people were not just paying off debts with whatever they were scraping together, the bankers would be happy because we would have inflation.  And inflation would mean that the dollars in your pocket lose value as the dollars in the central-bankers-books gain value.

But instead, their funny-money is sitting around unused in the big banking system.  Housing prices continue to fall.  Consumers arent’ spending money.  Americans are paying down debts.  And smart banks are padding their walls with money, to make sure they have some if people come demanding their account money.   All this means that money isn’t flowing into the economy. Its disappearing.

And so the dollar in your pocket is becoming more valuable (bad for government central bankers).  The price of the house next door is coming down (bad for the bankers that own all the real estate).  The planned for inflation isn’t materializing (ruins their plans).  And people are getting out of debt.  (Hysteria!)