Consciousness and a Camera

          Consciousness and a Camera

No camera can take a picture of itself in a mirror without being loaded with film. Similarly, the electrical and chemical processes in the brain cannot produce consciousness. Consciousness must be loaded into the brain for a person to be physically conscious of the world and inner thoughts.

The materialists contend that if a brain is defective or becomes diseased, then consciousness does not work properly and that proves that the brain produces consciousness. But even though a defective camera cannot take a good picture even though loaded with perfect film, so a perfect consciousness cannot operate properly within a defective or diseased brain. Consciousness and brain activity must work together in harmony to produce a normal and healthy experience of the world and inner, subjective experience as well.

When most babies are born, God loads their brains with consciousness which is the same as spirit. Their spirit causes them to possess a physical consciousness of the world, of their own inner being, and of God. Sometimes rarely, babies are born who seem to be normal and healthy, but they remain in a vegetable state until they die because, for reasons of His own, God does not load their brains with spirit. Job 32:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; I Thessalonians 5:23; James 2:26.

Atheists deny the existence of God because they willfully shut down their consciousness of God that He gave them when they were born. God creates every human in His own image. Genesis 1:27. God judges all atheists when they die, and He consigns their souls and spirits to one of the regions of death according to how they lived their lives. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. But God loves them, and He will not give up on them. I Corinthians 13:8. In the end, God will reawaken their consciousnesses of Him when He appears to them in a great worship service, and He will cause them to choose of their own free will to repent and believe in the Lamb who alone can save them. Revelation 5:11-14. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse their souls and spirits of all sin and evil, resurrect them, and recreate them to righteous lives on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.