I believe and I follow but I get confused about how the chemicals we now know about are involved.
Serotonin, dopamine and others can affect a lot about a person.
Someone here prayed the other day to stop smoking, which releases dopamine.
Were they praying that God controls their dopamine receptors?
Serious question. Hope you are well.
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According to science, a man cannot actually walk on water.
Or make a hammer float.
Not to gee-whiz you about me, but about Him — we are fearfully and wonderfully made. He ought to know about what our best doctors know as dopamine receptors — He designed them into these marvelous things we call brains. If He ever showed us the design book for a brain we probably couldn’t even really understand it, let alone its “soul interfaces.” Dopamine receptors? Do you mean that particular set of dopamine receptors which the angels knew as spec ABC, part D, subsection E, paragraph F? Our knowledge is so crude. It’s like saying oh, a hand is made of fingers.
Many physical perceptions may influence soulish reasoning, which might in turn influence spiritual life, but they don’t depend on each other, independently from God.
The detail of how would surely involve a myriad of things. A few months ago I heard a testimony from a retired Salvation Army captain, a gal who had given up smoking when she believed on Christ many decades back, and was helped through the temptation by others in the Salvation Army. What did God do? Well, He desires “wisdom in the hidden places” (the places we do not understand, and would never be able to understand, and would not need to understand). We can count on our Creator to understand what redemption entails. Like I commented as some great revelation (ha ha ha): “God ain’t stupid!!”