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First off, it needs to be pointed out that the three-pound lump of flabby
organic tissue housed within people's bony little skulls sufficing for a mind
isn't expansive enough to relate to God on a meaningful level.
● 1Cor 2:11 . . No one can know what anyone else is really thinking except
that person alone, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own
spirit.
● 1Cor 2:14-15 . . A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of
God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised.
So then, seeing as how nature's human mind is too limited to relate to God
on a meaningful level, then we must conclude that it either needs to be
replaced by an upgrade or, at the very least, enhanced by a divine add-on of
some sort in order to make it possible to teach people things that God would
like to share but can't because of flabby organic tissue's inability to get His
drift.
● 1Cor 2:16 . .We have the mind of Christ.
The mind of Christ is the mind of God; so that people within whom is God's
spirit, have quite an advantage over John Q and Jane Doe pew warmer.
● 1Cor 2:10-14 . .The Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For
who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man,
which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit
of God.
. . . Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is
from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which
things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those
taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
There is a downside to this. If people deprived of God's spirit do not accept
the things of the Spirit of God because they seem ridiculous and make no
sense; then they will react the very same way towards those of us whose
thinking is in line with the mind of Christ.
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First off, it needs to be pointed out that the three-pound lump of flabby
organic tissue housed within people's bony little skulls sufficing for a mind
isn't expansive enough to relate to God on a meaningful level.
● 1Cor 2:11 . . No one can know what anyone else is really thinking except
that person alone, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own
spirit.
● 1Cor 2:14-15 . . A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of
God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised.
So then, seeing as how nature's human mind is too limited to relate to God
on a meaningful level, then we must conclude that it either needs to be
replaced by an upgrade or, at the very least, enhanced by a divine add-on of
some sort in order to make it possible to teach people things that God would
like to share but can't because of flabby organic tissue's inability to get His
drift.
● 1Cor 2:16 . .We have the mind of Christ.
The mind of Christ is the mind of God; so that people within whom is God's
spirit, have quite an advantage over John Q and Jane Doe pew warmer.
● 1Cor 2:10-14 . .The Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For
who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man,
which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit
of God.
. . . Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is
from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which
things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those
taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
There is a downside to this. If people deprived of God's spirit do not accept
the things of the Spirit of God because they seem ridiculous and make no
sense; then they will react the very same way towards those of us whose
thinking is in line with the mind of Christ.
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