Joshua 1:8b, Review: Theology of Neurology: Details on Memory & Recall; Short- & Long-term Memory; Brain’s Filing System

VI.	General Details about Memory & Recall:
	SUMMARY:
1)	The content of memory is what constitutes the belief system of the individual.
2)	What is recalled under certain stimuli reveals the inner self.
3)	The brain of a reptile is rudimentary and only enables the beast to search for food, establish a territory, mate, and fight or flee.
4)	The animal brain adds to this a limbic system from which emotions emanate.
5)	Although the lower animals have a cerebral cortex it is rudimentary, for example, it does not process verbs.
6)	The human brain adds to all these a cerebral cortex which provides capacity for rational thought, problem-solving, memorizing information, developing language skills, and forming a culture.

	CONCLUSION:
Failure to utilize the assets of the cerebral cortex causes the human to revert to dominance by the limbic system and he begins to act as an animal functioning under the emotional complex of sins.

VII.		Short- & Long-term Memory:
	SUMMARY:

1)	Information that is useful for only a few seconds is retained very briefly in short-term memory and then discarded.
2)	However, that information which is considered of value for future reference can be retained in long-term memory.
3)	The catalyst for storing data in long-term memory is human volition.
4)	A positive response to information centralized in the association cortex initiates an electrochemical sequence which creates a permanent neural pathway, or in biblical vernacular, a wheel-track.

	CONCLUSION:
1)	Since long-term memories cannot be forgotten it follows that under the proper stimulus, it may be recalled to working memory.
2)	This process reaches maximum efficiency under the recall ministry of the Holy Spirit.
John 14:26 -	“But the Helper [ Paraklhtoj: a title used in a court of justice to denote a legal assistant or counselor ], the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”

3)	The word for “teach” is the future active indicative of the verb did£skw and refers to the system of instruction unique to the Divine Academy of Grace Didactics: the Grace Apparatus for Perception.
4)	The Holy Spirit teaches doctrine to the believer’s human spirit which interprets divine thought in Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas resulting in academic understanding in the association cortex.

5)	If volition responds positively to what is understood, then the Holy Spirit initiates the electochemical process, which results in a permanent memory trace.
6)	This side of the didactic process is called learning.  Teachers teach, students learn.
7)	If you learn a fact it is by definition placed into long-term memory.
8)	Only that which is in long-term memory can be recalled.
9)	When it comes to divine guidance, the believer filled with the Holy Spirit is enabled to recall any and all doctrines, which relate to his problem, circumstance, or exigency—“He will bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
10)	The word for “remembrance” is the future active indicative of the verb, ØpomimnÇskw: “to cause one to remember.”  The active voice indicates it is the Holy Spirit Who causes the teaching to be recalled into one’s conscious mind.
11)	We have the capacity to remember doctrine by means of the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.
12)	The Lord uses the future tense for both verbs because He is speaking in the Incarnation about mystery doctrines, which do not become operational until the Church Age, namely, the filling and mentorship of the Holy Spirit.
13)	The indicative mood says it will be a reality in future time therefore it is a prophecy.

VIII.	Memory, the Brain’s Electrochemical Filing System:
	SUMMARY:

1)	Knowledge that is transferred into long-term memory causes permanent electochemical changes in the brain’s neurons creating an engram—the neurologist’s term for what the Bible calls a wheel-track.
2)	If memory storage requires alterations in the biochemical structure of neurons, then it follows that when memories are formed, something must be changed within the brain.
3)	According to Stephen Rose in The Making of Memory, page 253:
Something permanent is required, something that will in some way produce some lasting remodelling of the synapses.  It is this remodelling which must require the synthesis of new proteins.
4)	This “remodelling” of one’s thinking is the objective of the commandments found in:
Romans 12:2 -	[CTL] Stop being molded to this age but be transformed by the renovation of your thought pattern so that you may prove what the will of God is …