Reflections

Has God signed DNA?

The Names

Yes, due to the peculiarities of the Hebrew Language, 12-14 common names of God - whether abbreviations or whole words - predominate greatly over all other possible words. This has nothing to do with interpretation or subjectivity or “personal revelation.” The names are simply there - about 500,000 in each cell and in their trillions in the human body, regardless of anyone's personal philosophy. They even appeared in the DNA of 4 tiny organisms I analysed - even E.Coli. They are probably in life everywhere. To repeat ourselves, you could say there is simply something about the Hebrew language that seems intended to work with this exercise. English and Latin yielded almost nothing in comparison.

It is probable that God has signed his name in all DNA around us. Some of us will see it; some of us will see it everywhere. Some won’t and some will deny a signature is there at all.

The phrases

From time to time people will say that something they read “jumped out and hit them”. It is as if a phrase or message intended for someone else in another time applies personally to the present-day reader. Many others who read the same words will not have the same experience. This seems to happen more to readers of the Bible; somehow once doesn’t expect to encounter a life-changing phrase in a thriller!

The exercise of searching the DNA for significant phrases only sometimes did this to me, and it may well be no reader of this material will have such an “Aha!” moment. So is God speaking in the DNA or not? Yes, but in a way which also seems to depend on us.

In some mysterious way the phrases we find written in the DNA will reflect what we are and what we want to see. The phrases I found and have listed on this website are only a small sample of what I found. Some phrases made no sense at all. I found a single instance of the phrase, "God is bad" but began to discover that positive phrases outnumbered negative phrases two to one. Partly, I didn't find many negative phrases because a negative in Hebrew can require an extra letter in the sequence making them less likely to appear. I certainly had no conscious bias against finding negative phrases about God. I recorded whatever showed up but on finding a 2 to 1 bias against the negative I decided to list on this website mainly those phrases that were positive. Within closely prescribed limits someone with a negative cast of mind could scan the same sequence of letters I did and choose a different set of vowel pointings in a 2-3 letter word to take the meaning in a more negative direction.

Other DNA to Hebrew projects

One writer (“Gregg Braden - The God Code” 2015), using a system partly derived from the Jewish mystics (the Kabbalah) claims to have established a correspondence between DNA and Hebrew. The mystical element is strong, and demands acceptance of the Kabbalah system.

Another approach (Anonymous 2015) takes the Divine Name YHWH and from the three basic letters YHW, in various combinations derives the three letter chemical base combinations found in DNA. This relies heavily on a system in a treatise on human consciousness called The Keys of Enoch written by Hurtak in 1973. I prefer to see potential in a less obscure system.

An interesting video (Keller 2012) describes how Mannose, a common sugar on the surface of cells, in some configurations looks exactly like the Hebrew for YHWH. I have difficulty seeing this in the configurations I know of, even though I understand the biochemistry well, but perhaps it could look like that if you managed to find the correct viewing angle.

The Image of God

If the names of God are written through our DNA and he has signed his work in us, does it hint at some sort of ownership of us, or reflection of himself in us? The name YHWH appears far more often in human DNA than in non-human DNA, suggesting there are higher faculties in humans that resemble God's and that aren't shared with animal and other organisms. They have life but not capacity for reasoning, wisdom, creativity or planning at high levels.

And God said “let us make man in our image, according to our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). This implies that there is some degree of signing already – there is an imprint of some kind on us. We bear the God-image in a way which the animals do not.

Genesis 1:26 “…let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth”. It seems to me that an obvious image here is of dominion. Just as God rules, we are supposed to rule. But this is not a mandate to destroy – we are supposed to be stewards not rain-forest clear-fellers.

Genesis 1:27 “in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Today it is popular to think that gender is the main image of God, but it would be more natural to think that dominion is the main image, and sexuality is secondary. The reason I believe that gender is not the most important image of God is that animals have it too. Any aspect of gender which particularly reflects God must be quite transcendent, but even so gender is not the most important quality. I could not find any biblical commentaries prior to 1900 which thought that sexuality was the main image of God. Rather they emphasized dominion, but at least two other factors: wisdom and spirituality.

Humans are Homo sapiens, the wise ones, and in Psalm 32:9 we read “Don’t be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle or they will not come near you.” The animals in contrast to humans, have little wisdom and are not fit to rule each other. Humans can talk to God; the talk of animals to God is more like the grunts of a pig. There is a similarity of spirit between humans and God which hardly exists for the animals. Do animals have souls or spirits at all? The answer quite simply is they have both, but it is the quality which differs from ours.

So, if, in some way God has written his name, his signature, his ownership and his guarantee of care into us, Homo sapiens, what does that mean about the way we could be living? We're certainly in need of help; we don't do a very good job of it left to ourselves. Maybe, in keeping with the spirit of this exercise, we could invent the letters RTRO. It could mean Retro, but might more usefully be interpreted as an acronym: Return To Rightful Owner.