“Born-Again” Linked to Brain Atrophy

“Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.”

Two declarations I will respond.

1. The size of the hippocampus is related to the things of the flesh.  Those who worship the Living God have a marked decrease in a desire for the things of this world.  Why should it be surprising that the study finds a physical sign of this God born desire?  If, indeed, the study is faultless.

2. “. . . critical to learning and memory . . .”  These “IQ” designers measure by what is seen.  What we learn of, in the Holy Spirit, is not measurable by man’s standards.  And the memory is less valuable when we commit even the words of our prayers to the Most High (leaving them at the foot of His Holy Throne, lest we remember that we are something when we are nothing.)

Once again, man measures what can not be measured with the instruments at his disposal.  And he summarizes what can not be summed with the words of man.  Had those who created this “study” sought the Living God themselves, the “study” would have provided a finding that would obviously escaped words of definition by man.  But then where would be fame, money, and power?