Originally Posted by tbpew

I will, even though I am extending out beyond my more practiced areas for discussion.

Any spirit, seeking to have influence within a vessel/creature needs a portal.

Our bodies internal system codes are all written on DNA ( a coded map written using the molecular geometry of a nucleic acid...chemistry)

communication on a cellular level is accomplished using RNA, which transmits the DNA information to proteins produced by the cells.

So, if an influence can effect the chemistry of the body, if can have access to the control house of every aspect of well-being, pertaining to the creature.

Most everything in our human body control system has an associated sucretion or some type of chemical release to signal some other chemical release to signal some action.

If you can affect the chemistry, you can affect the operation of the vessel.....afterall, drugs absolutely do have an effectiveness at least on the symptomatic level. Sadly, most modern so-called 'therapys' are not curative but rather symptom management (the whole auto-immune suppressors/inhibitors for example).

So what is so interesting is how a change in our chemistry can (or does) effect the cellular coding (DNA) that maps the next generation of cellular reproduction (mitosis) and the genetic map we pass down through human reproduction.

So, by way of a hypothesis:
many folks believe that the mercury preservatives in immunization treatments has resulted in the increase cases of children born with autistic symptoms. None of us would argue with the POSSIBILITY that a chemical influence changes the course of human life and the manner in which that life is lived.

Ok then,
Can alcohol change the body's chemistry and subsequently even alter the DNA or RNA pattern, plan, or code?

Can bitterness change the chemical secretions from various glands that accumulate to have an influence on the DNA or RNA fundamental systems?

Can love, hate, envy, strife, fear....result in a chronic series of glandular secretions that, over time, actually alter the cellular design map?

If a single inoculation of a mercury-based preservative can change the entire developmental track of a precious child, then which of us knows how to quantify what extended ingesting of Zoloft or Prozac or any of the host of antibiotics that are so over prescribed, maybe its the potent family of alkaloids like caffeine or the quintessential refined white sugars or high fructose corn syrup.

Hey pick your poison, but each one of them provide an entryway into your body chemistry.

Is it coincidence that the scriptural warning is that we not be caught in the snare the has occassion through our hearts being overcharged with:
surfeiting,
drunkenness,
and cares of this life

I submit that all three of these categories directly effect the chemistry of your body, and in doing so, render you captive, unaware, in a tragic snare.