Doctor E. Stan Lennard is a retired general surgeon and certified Christian apologist. His Doctor of Medicine degree was awarded at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1968. He received a Doctor of Science in Surgery degree through the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, defending his thesis in 1976. The first half of his career was at the University of Washington in Seattle where he completed his Chief Surgical Residency in 1977 and joined the full time academic faculty with a subspecialty in surgical infectious disease. In 1987 he entered full time private practice at Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, Washington and retired from clinical practice in 2001. Since his retirement he has continued his affiliation with the international, interdenominational Reasons To Believe ministry begun in 1987. He served on the Board of Directors of the ministry, also serving as its Chairman. For eleven years after retirement he served as an online instructor with Reasons Institute, the educational arm of the ministry, while conducting research that has extended over 20 years. He has five articles and two books that have accrued from his apologetics research. His blog will include articles that spin off his publications and research findings written for the consumption of the general public. Art is his lifelong hobby. He and his wife have two grown children and one grandchild.
There is a need for people to know the person of the living Holy Spirit and to abide by His Counsel. It is my intention to address the problem of widespread ignorance of the reality of the biblical triune God and the personal, loving communion He intended to have with Man since the creation of Adam. Results of this ignorance are several: People search to know what their identity is, what they stand for and should be willing to fight for based on what they know is proven, is true. They need to know that there is fundamental Truth by which life can be lived, problems can be solved and true love can be experienced. Too many people do not know what constitutes true love in the context of God, His Son Jesus Christ, and His creation of and purpose for mankind. Living by the Counsel of the indwelling Holy Spirit given by God’s grace through Jesus Christ brings glory to God and fulfills His purposes for Man.
The educational objective is to share the desire of the personal, triune God to be in an intimate, loving communion with Man through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit, interactive with the mind and soul of Man through the human spirit. Personal communion is accomplished by interaction between the Mind of God and the mind of Man through the neural synaptic networks of the human brain. How this interaction occurs draws upon current neuroscience that is in concordance with applicable Scripture.
Christianity is an evidence-based religion. The model for study in my studies is the neural synaptic network which incorporates the microsite hypothesis of Nobel laureate Sir John C. Eccles. Dualist interaction proposed by Eccles has been increasingly substantiated by contemporary theologians and investigators in the neurosciences and information theory, building on advances in quantum wave theory. The author addresses the mechanism for dualist interaction in his books. It includes quantum tunneling across synaptic clefts and synchronized oscillations of action potentials through neural networks as linguistic neural codes. Specified information with meaning and purpose is actualized within neural codes learned in one’s lifetime and archived in memory. The trigger for initiating spike trains is postulated as an immaterial energy source by which the Holy Spirit communicates with the mind of man. The cognitive mind of humans interprets neural codes enabled by their unique capacity for language. Communication from the Holy Spirit and other human minds as senders to human minds as recipients draws upon current understandings of information theory. My book, Nerve Endings of the Soul: Interaction Between the Mind of God and the Mind of Man Through Neural Synaptic Networks addresses this process.
My articles and books innovatively show concordance between scriptural narratives and applications from the neurosciences that address the personal interaction between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit and soul through the neural synaptic networks. The direct and personal communion with the Holy Spirit is restored when we accept the New Covenant of the Gospel in repentance. It was given by the grace and boundless love of God for Man through the redemptive sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, upon the cross of crucifixion. Upon His resurrection Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to indwell those who accept His truth as a personal, living Spirit, confirming His promise in John 14: 15-21. My book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story, addresses the restoration of communion in our time between the indwelling Holy Spirit and the spirit and soul of repentant mankind, lost at the Fall of Adam so long ago.
