Escaping the Matrix: Setting Your Mind Free to Experience Real Life in Christ (Biblia.com)

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Escaping the Matrix poses the question: What is in control of your mind? Like the characters in The Matrix movie trilogy, our minds can get hardwired to distortions that lie so deep within us that we aren’t even aware of them, such as habitual sin, thought patterns, damaged emotions, or even phobias. In Escaping the Matrix, pastor Gregory Boyd and counselor Al Larson bring together the biblical...

with the findings of neuroscience. On the one hand, the metaphor illustrates the biblical concept of a “pattern of this world” (Rom. 12:2) that has an evil, cosmic force—a “god of this age” (Satan)—as its architect (2 Cor. 4:4; see also Eph. 2:2; 1 John 5:19). On the other hand, the metaphor brilliantly illustrates the neurological truth that our entire experience of reality is rooted in the electrical-chemical firings in our brains. At one point Neo asks Morpheus if his experience in the Matrix

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