500,000 times in each human cell?
Has God signed our DNA?
IF God, the supreme craftsman, made us, would he have signed his work? And in what language?
I spent several months one year playing with this idea. A rather whimsical exercise you might say! I assumed the language would be Hebrew. I assumed it would be the DNA which was signed. I assumed the Genetic Code was involved. [The DNA codes for amino acids (which make up proteins)]. Under these conditions there were 22 amino acid combinations as codes. I found the only common language with 22 letters was Hebrew. I assumed some pattern of amino acid codes would correspond to simple Hebrew words.
[Technical points: I assumed the list of amino acids should include one called selenocysteine, which is coded for in the DNA but rare in living cells. I used the genetic code combination called “stop” which is a signal to a cell to stop assembling a protein. I assumed this also terminated a sentence in Hebrew or perhaps any other any target language] .
All this was possible because of my postgraduate studies in biochemistry long ago.
I made another critical assumption. Using a bit of simple cryptography I assumed the most common amino acid corresponded to the most common Hebrew letter, and so on down the two lists. I then wrote a program to roughly translate simple Hebrew phrases to English.
I found there are numerous names for God in Hebrew, and abbreviations for those names, so I searched for YHWH, Yah, and El, particularly.
I found many, many instances of Yah and El. Trying the same exercise with other languages, Latin and English, proved fruitless. It seemed the Hebrew language was made for the exercise and obvious that the positive result was due to peculiarities of the Hebrew language.
The human DNA is quite large, about 23,000 genes, and I only had time to look at the first half dozen genes in each chromosome. I found that abbreviations or full versions of the 14 most common names of God, most of them found in the Hebrew Scriptures, appeared about 500,000 times in each human cell. That amounted to trillions of times (500,000 x 35 trillion cells) in the human body. We appear to be saturated with the names of God - or at least his initials!
One of the most common four letter Hebrew words in the genes was YHWH, one of the most important names of God; it appeared 500 times in each cell. Its common abbreviation, YH, appeared 35,000 times. “Satan” was absent!
When I tried the same exercise with other organisms, there were fewer names of God.
Your signature on something carries the weight of your identity and authority. The conclusion? God's signature all through our DNA is not just the stamp of his creative ownership but of his commitment to the brand. It's like a nudge and wink to the human race, "I made you in my own image with all your potential, and just to remind you, here is My personal mark in your DNA to prove it.
We've been signed off, rather than written off!
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