Activation or Deactivation of Some Genes trough Tragedy or Emergency
Our body is built on genes on DNA, but it is said only less than 10% of genes are working in a cell. It is also found that a mechanism to suppress activation of some genes plays an important role.
And, it is also studied what factors influence and how they influence activation of genes. However, it is known that some factors inside and outside the body also influence genes. It can be easily understood that natural environment influences work of genes to change physical properties of a man. For example, people in Africa and other tropical regions have dark skins while those in northern areas have pale skins due to their genes.
It can be also understood that foods and physical exercise influence work of genes. Even laboratory mice fed well in favorable environment grow healthy and sound. But mice under various stress show various symptoms.
The point at issue is how psychological or spiritual conditions affect work of genes. For example, it is said when one faces a sudden tragedy or emergency his physical expression changes in a moment or he he suddenly starts to show extraordinary physical power.
In this context, it should be noticed that most of great religious people had experienced severe conditions to deepen and expand their religious ability. Through hard ascetic training or living under severe conditions, they developed their faith to be great religious figures. They must have activated some genes necessary to be excellent religious men.
Jewish people wandered through deserts for 40 years after exodus from Egypt led by Moses. Christ Jesus spent 40 days in wildness while being tempted by Satan. Even the tradition of having a simple life and enduring severe living conditions is somewhat inherited in Christianity. Buddha spent six years in ascetic training even to get close to starvation, although he got enlightenment after this period of training. Even today, it is recommended to Buddhist disciplinants to train themselves in ascetic training. Confucius politically roamed and wandered among nations in the Chinese continent for 14 years. Muhammed often practiced mediation in a cave in a desert.
So, it seems that Jewish people as a mass activated some genes to become religious people through the severe experience. Christ Jesus, as a son of man, activated some genes to become a founder of new religion in the human world, if I may say so, through the fight against Satan in wilderness. Or they must have suppressed work of unnecessary genes for their aims.
Especially to suppress unnecessary work of genes seems to be essential for a man to be religious or come to rely on the God.
In this context, a field of medical studies called epigenetics is important:
Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression (active versus inactive genes) that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence — a change in phenotype without a change in genotype — which in turn affects how cells read the genes. Epigenetic change is a regular and natural occurrence but can also be influenced by several factors including age, the environment/lifestyle, and disease state. Epigenetic modifications can manifest as commonly as the manner in which cells terminally differentiate to end up as skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, etc. Or, epigenetic change can have more damaging effects that can result in diseases like cancer. At least three systems including DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNA (ncRNA)-associated gene silencing are currently considered to initiate and sustain epigenetic change.1 New and ongoing research is continuously uncovering the role of epigenetics in a variety of human disorders and fatal diseases. (https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/#:~:text=Epigenetics)
Through pandemics in the past, the mankind must have activated some specific work of genes to suppress adverse effects of viruses in their bodies. Even through this corona-virus pandemic, the mankind may come to activate some specific work of genes to suppress corona-viruses. Or they may come to suppress some work of genes vulnerable to corona-viruses.
Men can activate or deactivate some work of genes, details of which we do not understand yet, through a tragedy or an emergency, like in the cases of ancient Jewish people. Probably through hundreds of millions of years, the mankind must have evolved by changing their genes or their work through various tragedies and emergencies to the present status.
So then, how will our genes be modified after this corona-pandemics? But, when we fight against Satan and win the fight like in the case of Christ Jesus, we must evolve closer to the God, acquiring o suppressing specific work of genes.
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Mark 9 King James Version23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.