In my books and several blog posts I have referred to the work of William A. Dembski, specifically to his book Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information. I complement my last blog with selected comments by Dembski in Chapter 3, “Information as Ruling Out Possibilities”:

“In everyday life, information is associated with intelligent agents who form statements to convey meaning. Accordingly, intelligent agents convey information to other intelligent agents by making meaningful statements within a system of language. Information, therefore, customarily presupposes intelligence, language, and semantics. . . . In general, information is about realizing possibilities by ruling out others. Unless possibilities are ruled out, no information can be conveyed. To say, ‘It’s raining or it’s not raining’ is uninformative precisely because this statement rules out no possibilities. On the other hand, to say, ‘It’s raining’ rules out the possibility ‘It’s not raining’ and therefore conveys information. . . . Writing in the context of human communication, Robert Stalnaker put it this way, ‘To learn something, to acquire information, is to rule out possibilities. To understand the information conveyed in a communication is to know what possibilities would be excluded by its truth.’”

I have shared with documentation in my books that the neural code is a linguistic code by which specified (meaningful) information is transmitted from a source of intelligence to and through the synaptic networks of a receptor’s brain.

What is information? How is it defined? von Baeyer addresses this question. Though it is often claimed that information can be generated by natural selection, it has been emphasized here and in my books that information can only come from a mind. From von Baeyer:

“Etymology offers a clue [to the definition]. ‘Information’, ‘deformation’, conformation’, ‘transformation’, and ‘reformation’ obviously derive from ‘formation’, which, in turn, comes from ‘form’. Information is therefore the infusion of form on some previously unformed entity, just as de-, con-, trans-, and re-formation refer to the undoing, copying, changing, and renewing of forms. Information refers to moulding or shaping a formless heap - imposing a form onto something.”

Our Creator God had infinite options by which to actualize information into all He created and sustains to this day. That He created our universe in three spatial and a single time dimension is evidence that He imposed form from the possibilities so that we see and can live successfully on Earth in our space-time. As I expand on these points it is my hope that information will become a reality that gives glory to the Mind of God.

Specified information with meaning and purpose comes from the Mind of God through the indwelling Holy Spirit in repentant believers. In Proverbs 2:6 we see the reality of the transmission of wisdom, knowledge and understanding to faithful believers: For the Lord gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

In my books and blogs I have addressed the blessing that we have to hear directly from God through His Holy Spirit, a blessing restored by the grace and love of God through the sin sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ.

I begin my posts on information with excerpts from the book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, entitled Information: The New Language of Science. Information is neither matter nor energy. It is an entity on its own that precedes both. It emanates from a mind, the ultimate Source being the Mind of God.

von Baeyer discusses the transmission of information by the human brain, a topic I have addressed extensively in my books and in several blog posts:

“Even the brain, which consists of a vast neural network of cells exchanging electrical and chemical signals, turns out to be a powerful processor of information coded [Italics added] for the most part in the form of off-on signals, zeroes and ones.”

Neural codes are instantiated within spike trains of action potentials, corresponding to von Baeyer’s “off-on signals, zeroes and ones.”

Information is a subject not often addressed in the scientific and theological literature, though it is on the increase. I have discussed this topic in both of my books and in many blog posts. I am redirecting my posts to address information, and I emphasize that the Mind of God is the ultimate Source of ALL information. Believers blessed by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit have access to information given by the Mind of God.

I close the blog posts taken from T. W. Hunt’s book with his discussion of the Kingdom of God within us:

“The individual with the kingdom within [indwelling] is blessed of God. The kingdom within blesses because it is the source of a deep and undisturbable happiness. The blessing has two main expressions.

“The first is peace. . . . the mind of Christ is an integrated mind, where every factor and facet work together instead of against each other. All parts of the mind are in harmony with one another. Because of that, outer conflict cannot penetrate the peace that makes up that harmony.

“This peace is both a gift and a discipline. The gift is the Holy Spirit’s blessing on the integrated mind. The discipline is that self-control that will not allow foreign thoughts to disquiet the processes of thought. . . . Peace is the birthright of the believer and the fruit of the Spirit.

“The second aspect of the blessing is joy. The highest joy that the redeemed individual can know is ‘the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit’ (2 Corinthians 13:14). Joy is also a gift and a discipline. This gift also is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). The discipline is abiding in Christ. After talking about abiding, He said, ‘These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full’ (John 15:11). We are to abide in Him to have the joy.”

Yes, Satan can still tempt, as Hunt points out, but we can resist him with the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit manifested through our will, our choice. I highly recommend Hunt’s book, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts.

Hunt clarifies the meaning of the Kingdom of God in Chapter 12 of his book:

“Jesus emphasized that the kingdom of God does not come with outward observance, but rather, ‘the kingdom of God is within you’ (Luke 17:21). That directs us to the mind [soul, will], the area where God wants to work. The changes that He brings in our life are secret and inward, but these changes are likely to bear outward fruit. The outward fruit is only a visible symbol of inner change.

“Jesus said, ‘Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness’ (Matthew 6:33). Seeking the kingdom within, in our heart [soul], must take priority. Our outward witness and our going as missionaries will be ineffective if we are not changed inwardly.”

Hunt shares this important comment about the significance of the anointing of Jesus Christ:

“Another point of [Jesus’] identification is in His authority. Jesus is the Anointed (Psalm 2:2). Since He is in me, my anointing is His indwelling. If He is in me, then the power and wisdom of God dwell in my person (1 Corinthians 1:24).”

Again, I emphasize the duality of communion with the indwelling Holy Spirit, sent as promised by Jesus Christ prior to his sin sacrifice on the cross of crucifixion and fulfilled at Pentecost and to this day. Our human spirit is indwelled by the Holy Spirit, providing for His intimate and personal communion with us in our repentance as it was between God the Father and Jesus Christ while He was on earth. We are blessed with the power and wisdom of God by the indwelling when we abide by His Counsel and Help, growing in the righteousness of Christ. Advances at least to a degree of understanding of the mechanism for dualist interaction via the synaptic networks of the human brain give added credence to this interaction.

I have discussed with extensive documentation the dualist interaction we have with the Holy Spirit in repentance thanks to the sin sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross to restore the indwelling of His Holy Spirit in repentant believers. We are witnessing in our time how certain Muslims are having dreams that are bringing them to the acceptance of the Truth of Jesus Christ as their Savior. Looking back at Scripture we see how God has acted on the perceptual apparatus of humans as He does even today. Hunt discusses this reality through the experience of persons in the Old Testament and of two persons to whom the resurrected Jesus appeared prior to His ascension, one of whom was Cleopas:

“Jesus now approached these two on the road [to Emmaus], but He did something He had not done with any of the women - He held their eyes so that they would not recognize Him. The word used is a strong word (krateo), indicating that God ‘laid hold of’ their perceptual apparatus. In the Old Testament, when Elisha’s servant was frightened by the Aramean army that surrounded Elisha, Elisha prayed and God ‘opened’ the servant’s eyes to see the Lord’s chariots of fire surrounding them (2 Kings 6:17). Later the Lord caused the Aramean army to hear chariots and horses that did not exist (2 Kings 7:6). God does operate on our perceptual apparatus as it suits His purposes.”

These comments speak to the dualist interaction that we can have with the indwelling Holy Spirit in our time as it has been documented in Scripture. Yes, we can pray TO God the Father, but we also can HEAR FROM Him. Our perceptual apparatus is becoming more understood as neuroscientists examine the mechanisms of the synaptic networks of the human brain and how they are accessed to transmit specified information.

In Chapter 7 of Hunt’s book, he discusses the ultimate redemption of humans, showing God’s eternal plan for believers:

“In the future life, redeemed humans will judge the angels (1 Cor. 6:3). They will reign with Christ (Rev. 5:10). These two facts tell us that regenerate humanity is the nobility of the universe. Redeemed humanity will someday be the highest ranking of all creatures, even above the angels. From the beginning, God intended our Christlikeness. Redeemed and perfected humanity is God’s highest creation.”

And as I have pointed out in my books and selected blogs God intended to have a personal, intimate communion with the crown of His creation, Man. His indwelling of the human spirit by His Holy Spirit was lost at the Fall but has been restored to repentant believers by the sin sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We already have dualist communion restored by His grace and love, but we do not yet have the full redemption and communion that will be realized in the New Creation in the living presence of Jesus Christ. This is our blessed Hope!