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4 comments:
Thanks for sharing this Lawrence. I just got round to hearing it. It is awesome!
I'm afraid I'm not convinced by Laminin, guys. Perhaps you need to believe in the first place for this one. It strikes me that you can find religious symbols and shapes all over the place in nature if you're looking for them.
If you're talking about DNA though. Why not associate it's shape with the Rod of Asclepius- which is the origin of the medical symbol we see today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius - this is an ancient greek symbol associated with astrology and healing.
Ge 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Ex 7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
Ex 7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Nu 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Nu 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
As you can see there are plenty of reverences to serpent and staff. I am not quite sure what the relevance of the wiki article is, “The rod of Asclepius (also known as the rod of Asklepios, rod of Aesculapius or asklepian[1]) is an ancient Greek symbol associated with astrology[2] and with healing the sick through medicine. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. Asclepius, the son of Apollo, was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology. The Rod of Asclepius also represents the constellation Ophiuchus, also known as Ophiuchus Serpentarius, the thirteenth sign of the sidereal zodiac.” I agree the serpent and the staff have religious symbolic relevance but perhaps it requires revision in the context of Greek mythology and analysed instead in its Biblical context. Not unheard of that God show’s his promises in the skies.
Ps 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Ps 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Re 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Just some food for thought. Laminin is either complete coincidence or perhaps does have some relevance. Either way it’s pretty amazing.
Much as I enjoyed the allusion created by the shape of Laminin I am apt to consider its inescapable role in the fabric of physical life as a transitory imperitive. " He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,"
1 Peter 3 verse 18.
I think the question that begs to be answered is why "it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer" ? (Isaiah 53 v 10). Gethsemane means oil press. The garden was situated at the foot of the Mount of Olives. The crushing passion of Christ begins in a garden and then ends on a cross.
I have to admit that this life has many wonderful blessings but I have to agree with words I read on a gravestone in August - "I will be satisfied when I awake in his likeness."
I have to consider
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