One cannot have a relationship with Christ with the faculties we are born with. We don't see Jesus with our natural eyes. But we are given another type of sight at the time of our regeneration so as to see without human eyes. We walk by faith not by sight. By faith we see what is unseen and hear what carnal ears cannot hear.
So there is the natural world and the spiritual realm....and we use natural faculties for the one and spiritual faculties for the other.
We are born anew into the realm where Jesus is....the realm of the kingdom of God. This realm is holy and separate from the world. We are to walk in that realm in order to defeat the ruler of this present world and do the will of God.
One can only see the kingdom through grace AFTER the old nature has been rendered "dead". We must cease to rely on our natural faculties.....we need to give up on them in order to see the truth. The truth cannot be received through our natural faculties (eyes and ears). But by faith God opens the door to us in order to be able to interact with Him.
So there is the natural world and the spiritual realm....and we use natural faculties for the one and spiritual faculties for the other.
We are born anew into the realm where Jesus is....the realm of the kingdom of God. This realm is holy and separate from the world. We are to walk in that realm in order to defeat the ruler of this present world and do the will of God.
One can only see the kingdom through grace AFTER the old nature has been rendered "dead". We must cease to rely on our natural faculties.....we need to give up on them in order to see the truth. The truth cannot be received through our natural faculties (eyes and ears). But by faith God opens the door to us in order to be able to interact with Him.