There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone
girl who had been killed in an auto accident. The recipient said when she got her new heart, almost every night she could feel the impact in her chest. She also began to hate meat, which she always enjoyed. The recipient confessed that she was gay but was now planning on being married. When researching the nineteen-year-old girl, her mother said she was a vegetarian and had a different man in her life every few months. After the wreck and before she died, she had written notes to her mother saying she would feel the impact of the car hitting her—she could feel it going through her body. While not all organ transplants have personality changes, there are accounts where people became interested in art, classical music, and certain foods that they previously had no desire for and even did not enjoy. 2 The Bible has much to say about the heart, as the word heart is mentioned 830 times in 762 verses. The heart is also linked to the mind and understanding . We read, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34), and “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). Christ said, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things” (Matt. 12:35). How can a flesh organ that pumps blood have the ability for memory or to inspire good or evil? Dr. J. Andrew Armour, in 1994, wrote a theory that the human heart has a “heart brain.” Consider that the heart has a detailed nervous system with forty thousand neurons. Dr. Armour believed the heart can act independently of the brain and can receive and send its own signals through its own autonomic nervous system. If so, this could help explain how
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