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What if your family patterns, addictions, fears, and trauma are not the final word? In this episode, Brandon and team talk with Dr. Luman Wing about epigenetics, transgenerational sin, addiction, sanctification, and how the gospel may reach even deeper into our embodied lives than most Christians have imagined.

https://amzn.to/3QR8z3H- Dr. Lu's book
https://lumanwing.org/

Timestamps:
01:00 Introducing Dr. Luman Wing and Genes of Eden

03:00 Lu’s encounter with the Jesus Movement and Lonnie Frisbee

05:00 Science, design, and Dean Kenyon’s classroom moment

07:00 Blood, biochemistry, biotechnology, and gene therapy

08:00 How theology and epigenetics came together

09:00 Epigenetics explained in plain English

12:00 Stress, fear, habits, prayer, and gene expression

13:00 Augustine, Pelagianism, and inherited sin

15:00 Adam, shame, fear, and the transgenerational imprint

17:00 Transformation, neuroplasticity, and becoming new creatures

19:00 Addiction, dopamine, anticipation, and “holy wanting”

21:00 Why Leviticus may be more scientific than we think

23:00 The peace offering, adrenal glands, stress, and surrender

25:00 Heart, mind, soul, brain, and the emotional response

27:00 The amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex

31:00 Traducianism, the soul, and inherited human brokenness

34:00 Junk DNA, non-coding RNA, and the mystery of the soul

36:00 Being born again and the mystery of redemption

39:00 Does salvation change us epigenetically?

41:00 Romans 7, Romans 8, and progressive sanctification

44:00 The worm, the butterfly, and imaginal cells

46:00 Trauma, PTSD, the amygdala, and getting stuck in loops

48:00 Reason, revelation, Scripture, and renewing the mind

50:00 Stillness with God as a real mental workout

53:00 Exercise, swimming, bilateral movement, and healing patterns

54:00 Generational curses, inherited patterns, and epigenetics

55:00 Holocaust trauma and transgenerational imprinting

58:00 Forgiveness as a powerful interruptor of inherited trauma

01:00:00 Addiction, family patterns, and why DNA is not destiny

01:03:00 Trauma in family history and what may carry forward

01:05:00 Why there is no single “alcoholism gene”

01:07:00 Practically learning stillness, peace, and emotional regulation

01:09:00 Why Christian fellowship matters biologically and spiritually

01:10:00 Identity, becoming, and Dr. Wing’s next book

01:12:00 Potential, formation, consolidation, and identity

01:16:00 Leviticus, burnt offerings, and absolute surrender

01:18:00 Why science “screams” the glory of God

01:19:00 Lu’s personal testimony of trauma and God’s intervention

01:21:00 Hope for believers stuck in family patterns