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               COMMENT: We have to distinguish between physical life and spirit life. The
               part of us that lives eternally does not carry any genetic material because:


               (a) YEHOVAH God is spirit, and not genetic


               (b) Genetic material is needed only for reproduction and there will be no giv-
               ing in marriage in eternity

               (c) The  Messiah  said  that  which  is  spirit  IS  spirit  and  that  which  is  flesh  IS
               flesh


               (d) Spirit can exist without a body, but a body cannot exist without a spirit --
               that is why the natural body turns to dust and is never revived again, as such.
               When  the  transfiguration  occurs,  the  physical  body  turns  into  an  uncon-
               strained spirit that can take a human (or probably any other) shape it wishes
               (or it may be constrained by the soul/personality to take only its own formerly,
               individual, recognizable human shape when it is manifested as a human being
               -- but in its perfect physical form).


               All This is Not the Popular Church Teaching


               The popular teaching is that DNA or inborn “spirit” differences do not mat-
               ter, because in that view it is only “belief” that matters. Today, the popular un-
               derstanding is that  all races come from one source and most  Christian
               churches subscribe to this view, believing that race is a social or environmen-
               tal  phenomenon,  rather  than  being  biological  and  genetic.  That  races  have
               perhaps 99% in common genetically is considered sufficient proof of this. But
               within that 1% difference are the characteristics of race, and what else is
               ignored is the matter of “spirit” that features through the Bible. Can “spir-
               it” matters be identified genetically? There seems to be no experimental scien-
               tific evidence of it but possibly the experts do not look for this, although they
               freely speak about race-behavior genes. As this is a fact then environmental
               factors alone would not be all that affects behaviors.


               1. Quoting from Diversity in the Human Genome by Glayde Whitney, what
               do we read?

               “Genes govern every detail of every structure and function of every cell in the
               human body. Although they operate in constant interaction with the environ-
               ment, genes control every physiological function, from growth to healing to di-
               gestion to data-processing in the brain -- and they do so from conception to
               death. A tremendous amount of information -- the entire biological blueprint for
               each individual human being -- is contained in the genes. Until very recently
               most of our knowledge about genetics consisted of deductions from patterns
               of inheritance of traits among family members, and statistical inferences from

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