I got this from a friend and before posting this I checked it out with a reputable Scientist I know...... and he said....yes this is true. Thought it was interesting and wish I was able to post a picture but since I'm a complete idiot about such things I'll leave it up to....SC where are you?
A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio...and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....but I fear not being able to convey it as well as I want. I will share anyway.He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is...how He spoke the universe into being...how He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire...etc. etc. Then He went on to speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a medical standpoint, you know.) ...and I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I learned more and more about God's handiwork. I remember so many times thinking...'How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this???' Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't because I was running on my treadmill, either!!! It was because he started talking about laminin. I knew about laminin. Here is how Wikipedia describes them: 'Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue.' You see....laminins are what hold us together ...LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already. But what I didn't know is what laminin LOOKED LIKE.
But now I do.And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....
THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' of it....if you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, what you will see..... The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross.
God is cool!
Never heard this...that's cool!
Fascinating.
And before Christianity, that was obviously proof that we are held together by the philosophy of torturing runaway slaves to death.
me either. God is cool! He gives us so many hints and shows us what we need to know about him if we only have eyes to see.
huh? Can you elaborate Leauki?
Jesus was crucified because that was the common Roman method to torture criminals to death.
The same method was new to the middle east and was traditionally used in Rome to execute participants of slave revolts (and the odd runaway slave as well in extreme cases).
The Christians made the symbol their own.
Before Christianity it was simply the symbol for the execution of slaves, like today the "Electric Chair" is a metaphor for the punishment for murderers.
Differences of opinion aside, KFC, do you not find this just a bit sensational? I've seen the electron microscope pictures of the laminin, and while it is "cross-like" if you were to lay it out flat, that's hardly any kind of evidence for anything. It just seems like a sensational way to get an emotional response from people.
Now if Jesus had been nailed to some really whackily shaped thing, and then that whackily shaped thing was found in every cell of our bodies - THAT would give me cause for some introspection. But a cross is hardly a complex geometrical device. Finding one in nature isn't exactly difficult.
It was a natural symbol to call thier own after Jesus died on the cross.
I agree. It made perfect sense for the Christians to choose the symbol of their oppressors as their own. It was symbolic for Christianity's fight to liberate the oppressed.
However, it was chosen by man as a symbol, not by G-d. If it resembles something else, it's either coincidence or the connection is between slavery and creation, not Christianity and creation.
It doesn't hurt anyone for you to notice it. For him to assert that it means something hurts Christians because it's disingenuous. This guy is a representative of Christianity with relatively high visibility. Finding actual discussions/pictures of laminin when googling the word is difficult because there are so many hits on this guy.
Why disingenuous? Because it's clearly a sensational attempt on his part to make the assertion that because laminin is shaped like a cross it's a sign from God. You know what that results in? Converts? Nope. DVD sales? Oh yeah.
As I pointed out, a cross shape isn't very complex. To find one or millions of cross shapes in nature isn't surprising at all. I mean hey...let's just take it to the max shall we? Did you know that the cross shape of laminin comes in 3 parts? 3 Parts! Just like the Holy Trinity! Coincidence? Oh no no no. I'm surprised he didn't take it to the next level. As long as you're going to use science as a vehicle for making money, might as well go hog wild.
This reminded me of a similar story.
I was walking down the streets of CT with a hurting fellow church member. We were there for a Christian Conference. She was going thru a painful divorce and had all sorts of questions. I told her she need to pray to God and ask his direction for a purpose, a plan and a promise for her life from him. It just came out of my mouth.
Within a few seconds and I'm not kidding. We walked by one of those little white two sided sandwich boards and on it it said something about a plan and a purpose. She, being an ex-Catholic and very superstitous took this very seriously. She laughed thru her tears when she saw it. That afternoon in the car as we were leaving there was a very big painted area on the side of a building with the word "promise" in big letters. She looked stunned and almost afraid when she saw it. She knew God was there with her.
I know God uses the little things in life to speak to us. Jesus used simple ordinary things of material life to teach spiritual truths. Who said that he whispers to us in our good times and shouts to us in our pain? Well he shouted that day to my friend like it sounds like he did yours T.
God uses nature all the time to show us his wonderous ways. There seems to be some commonality when we look at nature and for Christians we just say God's fingerprints are everywhere showing us there is indeed more than meets the eye here.
More and more Scientists are beginning to know this but being able to express it in a public forum is still not acceptable.
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