“The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe.”
Christof Koch, 2012
“The human brain has a 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10,000 other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.”
Michio Kaku, 2014
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14 | New International Version (NIV)
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:28 (NIV)
What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
Psalm 8:4-5 (NIV)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God— this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images [idols]…
Romans 1:21-23 (NIV)
So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
Romans 8:6 (NIV)
Your mind can be renewed according to the grace and truth of God through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit
It’s not something we do, it’s something He does in us
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