I. Introduction

 

First a few examples, then a discussion based thereon.

 

1.) My goodness, that semi-trailer truck is bearing down on me pretty fast, I better stay put and let them pass by and then pull out onto the road. Let’s hang a bit.

2.) O my check it out, I can use a a Dirac delta function double integral right here and collapse my eigenfunction basis vectors and thus pull out the coefficients hiding in the superposition I constructed, by which I can then get a feel for the probability distribution of my forthcoming measurements. Let’s do it.

3.) My, my, good ol’ Too Bushels has got everything, why can’t I have that stuff? What makes that sucker so special? Hey bite your lip, wait a minute, hold it, my Lord is saying, love and respect Too, and pray for Too, and rejoice in their blessings as though they were your blessings. Plelase Lord, forgive me, I have sinned against you and Too, indeed, precisely you two. I shall turn immediately and look for opportunities to bless Too, if nothing else but by heartfelt, sincere prayer. Amen. Let’s get on with it.

II. Bible Talk

 Jehovah God hard-wired humankind with sensory perception. Information flows from the external world to the “ports” we call eyes, ears, nose, fingertips, and so on. From there it flows to the central processing unit seated at the central command post of the nervous system we call a brain. Here is where things get interesting. Human brains are of themselves hardwired, one compartment to another by way of one neuron to another via electromagnetic and electrochemical fields interplay, thus information from the outside circulates around in the brain, gets processed by and stored in the brain, and said ports respond to the processor component of the brain with some sort of output to the external world. Human brains are also soft wired, and that is what we are emphasizing in this Bible Talk. What does that mean? Soft wiring bespeaks a Code. Here is an example of a simple code written around the reader. It is assumed that the reader is wired to sense thirst, a significant hard-soft wiring itself, but allow us to skip the attendant details and just assume them. So, following is the simple code, you will notice that it is a negative feedback code because a stable endpoint is always possible, i.e., quenching and not overfilling with water:

 

1. Auto-test your thirst condition at infinitesimal intervals
2. when you are thirsty, take a drink of water
3. when you are no longer thirsty by way of step 1, stop drinking water
4. repeat 1-3 ad infinitum

The above thirst code is rooted in reality because it is practical, yet it is ethereal, because like all codes, it is abstract. Codes map abstract thoughts to (some manner of) practical reality. In this way they are an expression of logic—reasoning according to strict principles of validity. The driver does not pull out in front of the Mack Truck owing to inherent logic, a code in their brain, that tells them to stay put. The obvious question is, whence this logic, this reasoning according to strict principles of validity, and not just in this Mack Truck example, but in similarly perilous instances? Any believer knows that logic, reasoning according to strict principles of validity, stems from the LogoS, even Jesus Christ. He Jesus soft-wired humankind with these sorts of life-preservation codes. Thus He speaks without one even being fully aware of Him, of HIs Voice, in such instances.

 

For the next example, the probability distribution of some forthcoming measurements, we must switch to a different gear and consider a different logic. (Logic is ever what it is, logic, because the LogoS is eternal, it differs only by degree of imparted grace, i.e., host reasoning capacity, for the assigned mission and service.) Whereas the former built in code guiding the driver registers quite intuitively, this one does not at all. This one must be learned, and the curious thing is that try as they may not all can learn it. That is very curious and to be noted. This is not a statement of human reasoning gradation on the part of the Logos; it is a statement of purpose. I can do an integral for example and other crazy stuff like that, but I can hardly nail two boards together, or tune an engine. I do not fit in the carpentry ministry well (except as a water boy), nor in the automotive repair ministry (except as a tool hunter, and that’s a challenge). So, we have moved from rudimentary built-in sorts of imparted auto-codes guiding the hard wiring of our brains, to selective ones thus imparted with ministerial purpose guiding the hard wiring. Obviously, everyone has the former, and everyone possesses somewhat the latter. But why? The rudimentary case is obvious, the latter demands proof of ministerial purpose which itself answers the question. Let’s get at the latter. And for starters, one must ask why people are born in the first place? It is intuitively obvious that people are born because they were caused to be born; it is valid to say that birth has cause. It is equally valid to say that parents cause birth. Of necessity then (conclusion), parents were caused. Indeed, all the way back to the first ones. So, there we are, way back at the beginning, with a cause. That is a big part of the argument, it gets us off the starting blocks, but we must dig deeper. Let’s home in on our first parents. Who caused them if they are first? (Evolutionary answers are unequivocally disallowed because they are flat out errant.) Repeat, who caused our first parents? Someone with a lot of energy and logic and, clearly, outside the natural reproductive chain caused our first parents. And that Someone is Jehovah God. Not this god, or that god, Jehovah God manifest in the historical Jesus, our self-proclaimed Papa God, yea He caused our first parents. How do we get from there, to ministerial cause as posed above? Since we have isolated Jehovah God as the First Cause, it is valid to turn to His Word for guidance.

 

Jeremiah. Of the myriad possibilities, we shall lean on Jeremiah, Jehovah’s weeping prophet Jeremiah. Hear what Jehovah has to say to us concerning Jeremiah’s ministerial purpose.

 

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations (Jeremiah 1:4-5). End of argument.

 

And the final example, concerning Too Bushels, is yet another manifestation of the LogoS in one’s ear. This built-in code animating our hard wiring is completely different than the former two. Here we are confronted with Jehovah’s ethical and moral logic that rages (screams in our ear) against expediently concocted mundane notions of the same. Consider the practicality of Jehovah’s moral and ethical logic in this last example. We selectively chose to highlight Jehovah’s Word concerning His covetousness ethics and morality demands in this one. ”The more you eat, the hungrier you get, ever an unresolved vexation.” That, is covetousness in shoe leather. Jehovah says to us, bless, and do not covet, it will be fatness to your bones and peace of mind. (Exodus 20:17, Ecclesiastes 5:10-11 [verse 10—robbed by insatiable self, verse 11—robbed by insatiable others]).

 

We have selectively endeavored to show, by way of three situationally disparate examples, the essence of the title to this Bible Talk, namely, the LogoS in one’s ear—yon (not so) little Voice. He thus animating the underlying hardwiring of one’s brain in multifarious ways, but always it is His Voice, whether it is a built-in code or His Spirit’s whispers realtime. Ethereal? Yes—exceeding abstraction. Rooted in reality? Yes—exceeding practicality.

 

Okay, but maybe you say, whence then the temptation of Satan, since Christians hold that there is a devil ever at work mischievously, tempting, testing? How does that work in the context of this Bible Talk? Satan gets into the loop for lack of the Discerning Word resident in the brain. In this way, he is free to exploit, nay, hijack, the machinery of the brain, like a virus hijacks a cell’s machinery, and thence he reprograms the Sacred DNA to reproduce himself with the gracious consent of the host. Viruses enter when the host is not vaccinated to protect against the virus, in the same way, Jehovah’s Word empowered by His Spirit vaccinates His people from intrusion of this deadly “virus” we call Satan (the unclean thing, the biggest of all fools and losers).

 

Praised be thy Name great Jehovah God, even blessed LogoS, thou of infinite wisdom and intellect and power. Thou who ever speakest to thine people amen and amen. (“A Letter of Invitation.”)