Thanks for your reply. You ask hard questions to answer. Speculation has its place. It is a critical part of decision-making, but needs to be based on fact. Speculation of itself as a foundation is just a wandering of thought. A prime example of late is the vaccine. As the bible relates - I can’t give you the scripture, only by memory, such as it is - we should not be carried away by distractions, yet having said that, viewing the larger picture of the vaccine, there are some facts that are self evident, ergo, Speculation = day dreams. Speculation = the CERN laboratory and the discovery of the particulate of creation. It’s semantics, yet because of our DNA (in part) speculation is part of our inquisitive nature.
I do not know if Jehovah can know our inbuilt responsibility of mind via DNA inspection. Clearly, there are other factors that determine our judgement that are unique to us. I assume this to be so, as Jehovah will by-pass our actions to read the intent. (Miserable man that I am, for what I do, is what I should not do). Thus there is no need to print automatons through designer label DNA and it may be a construct that Jehovah chooses to ignore for the sake of impartiality which in itself, is a critical part of judgement. There are scriptures that point to this (forgive my memory) such as the day of one’s death is better than the day of his birth. Why that is so, is elementary and proves the point of impartiality in judgement and negates the need to read the numerical construct of the most intricate systems of all creation. Likewise, it allows for repentance, which if so, in turn allows for forgiveness. This of course does not rule out the creator being able to foresee, rather than know, the outcome. I do not know how to describe the process of reading the heart, only that to do so involves impartiality as it includes all the construct that effects our mental development. The answer then to Jehovah reading DNA: There is nothing impossible for Jehovah, therefore the answer to our thinking, if we are to remain impartial, lies elsewhere and going down that road will lead into pointless speculation because the answer is not within our reasoning. (That does not of course, rule out that some people may be able to give a better reason to do so!)
The fact that Paul did not speculate in my thinking, is straightforward and contained in the scripture itself. “Do not add to, or take away from, what is written, on pain of death”. If we believe the scripture, then we must accept that Paul was inspired and wrote only that which was given him to record and not to add from his own knowledge base. I base my understanding of that on the fact that Jehovah also had recorded, that for those chosen who speak for Him before kings and judges, will have their responses given to them. They are not left to articulate for themselves.
Insofar as man understanding DNA, they are looking at the finished product, rather than its elements. We know about the bacterial motors that build DNA but not how they themselves are formed. Were they to describe how bacterial motors are built, would only lead to the further questions of how those elements gather together to form a living, intelligent motor that can walk and convey the chemical needs of DNA to its correct place within the chain.
In pondering this fact, I came to the conclusion that life is a separate entity to the body that has grown up around it. I base this thinking on the scripture where is relates that Jehovah formed Adam from the elements of the earth and ‘breathed life into his nostrils“. Two separate processes and recorded so for a reason. It appears to me that the body is animated by life, not that the body is itself, life. The two are separate, though clearly self sustaining. The body supports life only whilst it has the ability to do so. The body cannot sustain life past its “sell-by” date, of three-score years and ten, only by great strength can it do so to a greater age the bible tells us. How can it be otherwise if flesh cannot inherit the kingdom, yet the sense of being, remain alive when elevated to the heavens? If anything answers your question about the issues of DNA and it’s apparent analytical thinking processes, then it is this. Jehovah is life. He makes the point quite clearly. Life has been inherited from Adam, and it is reasonable (to me at least) to assume that that entity of life passed down to us is the unbroken chain of life from Jehovah. That in itself would answer your question whether Jehovah can read DNA. Maybe, maybe not, but He would be aware to the full extent of the part of His life source that sustains our body from its conception onwards. As Jehovah points out, “Better the day on ones’s death, than the day of his birth.” He tells us that this life source is within our blood, and that it “must be returned to Him”, poured out upon the earth and covered over. We view that as symbolic, but I am not so sure that it is. It is a gesture available to us, to acknowledge the sanctity of the source of life. Though DNA provides the means whereby we experience life, it is not life in itself and in fact, every last cell of it is replicated over and again during our life. DNA degrades until it can no longer sustain the life force within it. But does life cease to exist, or is it that it is left without our personal reasoning, inert, when the body dies and like every other energy force, translates into a different form? The reproductive cell of life is alive before it ever reaches that of the female which of itself, is inert. Thus the element of life is handed over in a chain reaction, leaving us perhaps, to the conclusion that DNA does not provide life, but enables or disables, how we experience life and that life itself, is a constant?
However, in Galatians 1:15 apostle Paul did not elaborate, so why should we...
