The Whole in Your Head – Part 3

Were Most of Us Just Created Left-Brained?

In the beginning God… We are created beings made in the form of our Creator - “Man was created by God in his image, according to his likeness” (Gen 1:26-27). And God is 100% fully creative. Now you may be asking how I know God is 100% creative. That means, you might say, He’s 0% logical. And if we’re made in his image then we must be 100% creative and 0% logical as well. Well, yes and no. Let’s look at what creative and logical mean. Then let’s look at God’s creation and determine his creative and logic ratio.

The definition of “creative” has two parts – 1) being creative is the ability to originally manifest something from nothing and, 2) creativity is anything brought about by human invention or imagination. We only have to look around us at what Genesis describes as God’s creation, His manifestation of something from nothing brought about through is own divine imagination. The very extent of His creative “thinking” is testimony that we were created and exist in a world that is totally creative and totally not logical. Here are a few of God’s more interesting creatures that illustrate the vastness of creativity and the utter absence of logic.

The Bombardier Beetle
It defends itself by mixing chemicals that explode; firing through twin tail tubes that can swivel like gun turrets. The bubbling liquid that shoots out at 212 degrees Fahrenheit is enough to deter most predators.
The force of the "round" fired should be enough to blast the little beetle into orbit, if not pieces, and it would be if it was discharged at one time. But slow motion photography has revealed that the crafty beetle actually lets go with a stream of up to 1,000 little explosions. What logic does it make to equip a creature with enough force to destroy itself?

The Giraffe
Then there’s the giraffe, whose long neck necessitates a powerful heart to pump blood all the way to the brain. By rights the blood flow should blow its brains out when it bends to drink water, but the lofty animal has a delicate series of spigots and a sponge that dissipate and absorb the rush of blood. Why create an animal that could die trying to take a drink to sustain itself?

The Woodpecker
The woodpecker, whose rat-a-tat hunt for tree grubs, should send it home each night with a mighty migraine. Between each pounding blow, the bird closes its eyes every millisecond. If it misses just once, the force would blow its eyes out. The bird also has a piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber and an extra-long tongue that can reach into the tree to pluck out its meal. It also has a glue factory that makes the bug stick until it is in the woodpecker's throat and produces another secretion to dissolve the glue on swallowing. How logical is that? http://bibleprobe.com/beetle.htm

We are unique reflections of the Creator and caretakers of the creative capabilities given from Him.

These examples don’t make any logical sense at all. Why? Because God is 100% creative. His creation only makes sense to us when we try to put it into a much more simplified form in order to try to explain its existence in the first place.

But wait, let’s look at evidence that God is also logical. God said, “Let there be light.” Genesis 1:3. Out of this simple four word sentence came incredibly complex systems of “light” that scientists are still struggling to fully comprehend. There are dozens of properties within this small breath of God that are irrefutably logical. Electromagnetic waves and wavelengths, light speed, the laws of reflection and refraction, dispersion, diffraction, light spectrum, visible light, invisible light, constructive and destructive interference, wave particle duality, light pressure, are just some of the properties and characteristics of light that God simply spoke into immediate existence.

All the natural laws that light must exist within and that have taken scientists hundreds of years to even begin to grasp were completely, logically, pre-written in the twinkle of God’s eye. Isn’t it interesting that God’s creative side created the concept of light that artists (right-brained folks) continually strive to manipulate through color and texture and shapes and forms, while simultaneously challenging the scientists (left-brained folks) to understand the total extent of its influence on almost every other aspect of the physical world.

So we see that God is 100% creative, and 100% logical. Since we’re made in his image, then we too are fully creative and fully logical.

Bottom line: It takes the whole of you head to be a Prosperous thinker!

Next time someone asked if you’re left or right brained, just say you’re Logical. Interestingly, the word logic comes from the Greek logik (tekhn ), which is translated as ”the ART (right brain stuff) of reasoning (left brain stuff)”. I love it!

Sometimes is not a question of left or right, but of a brain at all.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff," -- Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

Cheerleaders are the ultimate right-brainers. They are programmed to be motivators in spite of obvious and often hopeless left-brain observations. When you are down by 40 points with 5 seconds left and you are still cheering on for victory, that is ultimate right brain thinking completely void of any left brain reasoning whatsoever.