In the chapter entitled, "Forgiveness, a New Look," clinical neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Daniel Amen, M.D, (Healing the Hardware of the Soul: How Making the Brain-Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth) states:
Since I have been able to look inside the living brain, my opinion on judging others has dramatically changed. I used to believe in the death penalty--I had sort of an-eye-for-an-eye mentality. The year after I started the brain-imaging work, I wondered how we could put anyone to death when they behaved out of a brain that didn't work right. It seemed inhumane and lacked the current understanding we have of the brain. I have a better understanding why Matthew quotes Jesus as saying, "Judge not, that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you shall be judged." A person's brain is complex. God has it figured out, and judgment is best left to his realm.
The Lord sees not as a man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart (and in the brain).
I Samuel 16:7 (parentheses added)
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