Researchers measured the neural response hours after the participants engaged in video gaming to
prevent immediate influence, and compared their results with a control group.
With regard to war, two factors
prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's
immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or
influence in determining them.