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COMMENT: We have to distinguish between physical life and spirit life. The
part of us that lives eternally does not carry any genetic material because:

(a) YEHOVAH God is spirit, and not genetic

(b) Genetic material is needed only for reproduction and there will be no giv-
ing in marriage in eternity

(c) The Messiah said that which is spirit IS spirit and that which is flesh IS
flesh

(d) Spirit can exist without a body, but a body cannot exist without a spirit --
that is why the natural body turns to dust and is never revived again, as such.
When the transfiguration occurs, the physical body turns into an uncon-
strained spirit that can take a human (or probably any other) shape it wishes
(or it may be constrained by the soul/personality to take only its own formerly,
individual, recognizable human shape when it is manifested as a human being
-- but in its perfect physical form).

All This is Not the Popular Church Teaching

The popular teaching is that DNA or inborn “spirit” differences do not mat-
ter, because in that view it is only “belief” that matters. Today, the popular un-
derstanding is that all races come from one source and most Christian
churches subscribe to this view, believing that race is a social or environmen-
tal phenomenon, rather than being biological and genetic. That races have
perhaps 99% in common genetically is considered sufficient proof of this. But
within that 1% difference are the characteristics of race, and what else is
ignored is the matter of “spirit” that features through the Bible. Can “spir-
it” matters be identified genetically? There seems to be no experimental scien-
tific evidence of it but possibly the experts do not look for this, although they
freely speak about race-behavior genes. As this is a fact then environmental
factors alone would not be all that affects behaviors.

1. Quoting from Diversity in the Human Genome by Glayde Whitney, what
do we read?

“Genes govern every detail of every structure and function of every cell in the
human body. Although they operate in constant interaction with the environ-
ment, genes control every physiological function, from growth to healing to di-
gestion to data-processing in the brain -- and they do so from conception to
death. A tremendous amount of information -- the entire biological blueprint for
each individual human being -- is contained in the genes. Until very recently
most of our knowledge about genetics consisted of deductions from patterns
of inheritance of traits among family members, and statistical inferences from

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