Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how trauma physically rewires the brain, citing Harvard research, and connects this to Jesus' healing in Mark 5 as a form of neurological rewiring using the Greek term sophroneo.
Break it down. And this is where scientists get this and the church sometimes doesn't, is when you look at sofroneal and the fullness of meaning and the saving of the mind. Well, if we know, according to Harvard's research, that trauma rewires the mind. Sophroneo means to unwire. To rewire. Jesus literally did more than maybe cast out a demon. He rewired this man's neural connections so he could sit in peace, so he could keep his clothes on, so he could be a phenomena to the entire village. We see the first post traumatic stress disorder, neurophysical healing takes place in Mark, chapter five.
Oh, my gosh. That is so powerful. And I love your Jewish perspective.
