24 Sep '17 13:06>1 edit
Originally posted by @wolfgang59
What part of my being "is not functioning"?
Where is my "God contacting organ" and how do you know it is dead?
What part of my being "is not functioning"?
Where is my "God contacting organ" and how do you know it is dead?
Yes, we are born into this world with a deadened comatose human spirit.
It is the spirit of man that can touch God directly.
The mind cannot touch God directly. The mind is for the interpreting what is going on in the deeper "organ" the human spirit. But you cannot find God in the mind.
You have to use your "praying organ" a deeper part of your being than your human SOUL.
How do I know this?
I only know it by revelation from God's word.
When Jesus said let the dead bury their own dead, it only makes sense if some portion of the physically living people is dead.
Luke 9:60
" But He [Jesus] said to him, Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and announce the kingdom of God everywheree."
Physically alive.
Even alive in soul.
Yet DEAD spiritually.
John 3:3,4, 7
"Jesus answered and said to him, Truly truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew [or again], he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born can he? (v.4)
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh,and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (v.6)
Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born anew." (v.7)
The deadness of the human spirit is because of it being separated from God.
Here Jesus speaks of people down through the ages who somehow HEAR the voice of the Son of God in the pages of the Bible. Those who hear will be born anew and will spiritually be made alive.