The Nature Of Man
It is a most incredible thing to recognize the reality that beyond the physical body and the reasoning faculties is the real nature of man, which is spirit or supernatural in existence. Recognizing this fact has enabled some, this writer inclusive, to access the highest realm of reality, the realm of God.
We have come to recognize the fact that man was created an eternal being, with a spirit inside to be in touch with the spiritual world of God and with a body outside to have contact with the physical world of material things. With his soul man would become conscious of himself as a personality, an entity living in the world with free choice.
This being the truth, why is it then that the mass of humanity seem to hardly recognize their spirits nor the realm of God’s existence?
In the beginning two significant Trees were planted in the Garden of Eden; the one possessing inherently the Life and Nature of God typified as the Tree of Life and the other inherently possessing the nature of the Evil One typified as the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man’s disastrous choice would lead them to partake of the God-forbidden fruit planted by the Evil One. Consequently man would receive the satanic nature into his spirit and thereby estranged from the estate of God’s existence.
The Nature of the Evil One is called Spiritual Death, as opposed to God’s Nature, Eternal Life (Zoë, in Greek). One makes earth a Hell while the other produces Heaven on earth. One is the soil out of which all the hatred, bitterness, misery, mortality, and all manner of horrific terror and torment sprung. The other is the fountain out of which true Life and Love and Light springs forth.
Spiritual Death makes men renegades from the will of God. This answers why the masses, including the so-called scholars or intellectuals, are ignorant of God or His realm of existence. Spiritual Death dissociates the human spirit from the dimension of God’s existence or Life (Death being defined as dissociation from Life).
Man in this state of being is lowered to a naturalistic plane of existence, or in certain instances he is brought into contact with the spiritual realm of Darkness as portrayed by the witches, psychics, eastern mysticism, and all the other devilish phenomena.
Since the unregenerate human spirit is in a state unresponsive to divine things it would be a perfectly normal thing for the unregenerate, or even for the sense-ruled Christian, to doubt the Bible or Supernatural phenomena.
Jesus’ inclusive Death, Burial, and Resurrection brought into being the New Creation Man. When one receives Jesus as Redeemer, God’s very Life and Nature comes into his spirit, absorbing it, taking him over, and building into him the things that he saw and admired in Jesus. This truth received in its entirety rids man of sin-consciousness which gave us an inferiority complex before God and birthed all the human religions.
God created man in His own image and likeness. Bearing this fact in mind, we understand that man therefore must of necessity be a spirit being too since God is a Spirit Being. Man is a spirit being possessing a soul and living in a physical body. With his spirit man contacts God; God contacts man through his spirit, for “the spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly”.
The intuitive part in man – the part that intuitively is aware of the presence of God and at times enables man to access realities beyond the apprehension of the Five Senses and the reasoning faculties is the human spirit.
Men have cultivated the physical body in a Gym; they have also cultivated the soul in academics or scholasticism. The world witnesses the possibilities that these have achieved. And yet it seems like there lies unlimited possibilities man can achieve if he recognizes and begins to cultivate the immeasurably immense potential that lies in the human spirit.
The quality of life of the human spirit is of a much higher dimension than the physical life of the Five Senses. There are various planes or dimensions of life; vegetable life, animal life, physical or carnal human life, Eternal Life or the God-kind of life (Zoë). The regenerate human spirit receives the uncreated Life and Nature of God and therefore is enabled to function from the divine plane of existence.
This staggers human reasoning! But it is the truth. And it is what God willed in the beginning when He created man in His own image and likeness. However, those that have imprisoned their spirits in bondage to sense-birthed theologies will not receive these facts.
The human spirit must gain the ascendancy over the Five Sense for one to begin to apprehend these incredible supernatural realities. The soul or reasoning faculties and emotions need to act as the organ through which the spirit’s intuition is expressed above the impulses and knowledge prompted from the physical body.
Ever experienced unreasonably inward premonitions or promptings, yet when acted upon or ignored you came to validate their witness? That was the voice of your spirit, which should consistently be recognized and gain the ascendancy over the impulses of the Five Senses if your life is to exemplify the Creator, Father-God.
However, we ought to understand that “the Father of spirits” does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits. Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the Five Senses (sight, smell, tasting, feeling, hearing) convey to them. Beyond that they are dumb and futile.
All the knowledge that we have in our schools, colleges, and universities has come to us through the avenue of the Five Senses, for the unregenerate mind is predominantly limited to the impulses and knowledge it receives from the Five Senses. Such Sense Knowledge can only carry one to the frontier of human investigation, but can take you no further.
Revelation Knowledge then comes to the rescue, ushering you to the ultimate of all Reality. Revelation Knowledge is knowledge received by the human spirit from the dimensions of reality beyond the reach of the Five Senses. This knowledge is then availed or brought into the awareness of the soul for the benefit of man.
The element in man which comes into contact with realities beyond man’s rehearsed reasoning abilities is the human spirit. The human spirit is the creative element in man through which all unreasoned ideas and realities simply come floating into our consciousness. It would be puzzling to the mind from whence such unreasoned realities and ideas unacquainted with our imaginations spring until there is a recognition of the human spirit.
But Sense Knowledge does not usher any further than the natural realm. It confines our existence nearly to that of a mere animal. Darwinism and other vain mental concepts and theories are the consequences of how absurd Fallen Man can be lowered.
But the deep searching or craving in man for reality beyond the natural realm is an undeniable testimony of an aspect of man’s nature or being the masses are ignorant of. No amount of intellectualism or carnal ecstasy is able to settle this inward-craving. It is only settled when one comes into union with the Living God, the Source and Goal of Life, for “deep calls unto deep”.
We have come to recognize the fact that man was created an eternal being, with a spirit inside to be in touch with the spiritual world of God and with a body outside to have contact with the physical world of material things. With his soul man would become conscious of himself as a personality, an entity living in the world with free choice.
This being the truth, why is it then that the mass of humanity seem to hardly recognize their spirits nor the realm of God’s existence?
In the beginning two significant Trees were planted in the Garden of Eden; the one possessing inherently the Life and Nature of God typified as the Tree of Life and the other inherently possessing the nature of the Evil One typified as the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man’s disastrous choice would lead them to partake of the God-forbidden fruit planted by the Evil One. Consequently man would receive the satanic nature into his spirit and thereby estranged from the estate of God’s existence.
The Nature of the Evil One is called Spiritual Death, as opposed to God’s Nature, Eternal Life (Zoë, in Greek). One makes earth a Hell while the other produces Heaven on earth. One is the soil out of which all the hatred, bitterness, misery, mortality, and all manner of horrific terror and torment sprung. The other is the fountain out of which true Life and Love and Light springs forth.
Spiritual Death makes men renegades from the will of God. This answers why the masses, including the so-called scholars or intellectuals, are ignorant of God or His realm of existence. Spiritual Death dissociates the human spirit from the dimension of God’s existence or Life (Death being defined as dissociation from Life).
Man in this state of being is lowered to a naturalistic plane of existence, or in certain instances he is brought into contact with the spiritual realm of Darkness as portrayed by the witches, psychics, eastern mysticism, and all the other devilish phenomena.
Since the unregenerate human spirit is in a state unresponsive to divine things it would be a perfectly normal thing for the unregenerate, or even for the sense-ruled Christian, to doubt the Bible or Supernatural phenomena.
Jesus’ inclusive Death, Burial, and Resurrection brought into being the New Creation Man. When one receives Jesus as Redeemer, God’s very Life and Nature comes into his spirit, absorbing it, taking him over, and building into him the things that he saw and admired in Jesus. This truth received in its entirety rids man of sin-consciousness which gave us an inferiority complex before God and birthed all the human religions.
God created man in His own image and likeness. Bearing this fact in mind, we understand that man therefore must of necessity be a spirit being too since God is a Spirit Being. Man is a spirit being possessing a soul and living in a physical body. With his spirit man contacts God; God contacts man through his spirit, for “the spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly”.
The intuitive part in man – the part that intuitively is aware of the presence of God and at times enables man to access realities beyond the apprehension of the Five Senses and the reasoning faculties is the human spirit.
Men have cultivated the physical body in a Gym; they have also cultivated the soul in academics or scholasticism. The world witnesses the possibilities that these have achieved. And yet it seems like there lies unlimited possibilities man can achieve if he recognizes and begins to cultivate the immeasurably immense potential that lies in the human spirit.
The quality of life of the human spirit is of a much higher dimension than the physical life of the Five Senses. There are various planes or dimensions of life; vegetable life, animal life, physical or carnal human life, Eternal Life or the God-kind of life (Zoë). The regenerate human spirit receives the uncreated Life and Nature of God and therefore is enabled to function from the divine plane of existence.
This staggers human reasoning! But it is the truth. And it is what God willed in the beginning when He created man in His own image and likeness. However, those that have imprisoned their spirits in bondage to sense-birthed theologies will not receive these facts.
The human spirit must gain the ascendancy over the Five Sense for one to begin to apprehend these incredible supernatural realities. The soul or reasoning faculties and emotions need to act as the organ through which the spirit’s intuition is expressed above the impulses and knowledge prompted from the physical body.
Ever experienced unreasonably inward premonitions or promptings, yet when acted upon or ignored you came to validate their witness? That was the voice of your spirit, which should consistently be recognized and gain the ascendancy over the impulses of the Five Senses if your life is to exemplify the Creator, Father-God.
However, we ought to understand that “the Father of spirits” does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits. Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the Five Senses (sight, smell, tasting, feeling, hearing) convey to them. Beyond that they are dumb and futile.
All the knowledge that we have in our schools, colleges, and universities has come to us through the avenue of the Five Senses, for the unregenerate mind is predominantly limited to the impulses and knowledge it receives from the Five Senses. Such Sense Knowledge can only carry one to the frontier of human investigation, but can take you no further.
Revelation Knowledge then comes to the rescue, ushering you to the ultimate of all Reality. Revelation Knowledge is knowledge received by the human spirit from the dimensions of reality beyond the reach of the Five Senses. This knowledge is then availed or brought into the awareness of the soul for the benefit of man.
The element in man which comes into contact with realities beyond man’s rehearsed reasoning abilities is the human spirit. The human spirit is the creative element in man through which all unreasoned ideas and realities simply come floating into our consciousness. It would be puzzling to the mind from whence such unreasoned realities and ideas unacquainted with our imaginations spring until there is a recognition of the human spirit.
But Sense Knowledge does not usher any further than the natural realm. It confines our existence nearly to that of a mere animal. Darwinism and other vain mental concepts and theories are the consequences of how absurd Fallen Man can be lowered.
But the deep searching or craving in man for reality beyond the natural realm is an undeniable testimony of an aspect of man’s nature or being the masses are ignorant of. No amount of intellectualism or carnal ecstasy is able to settle this inward-craving. It is only settled when one comes into union with the Living God, the Source and Goal of Life, for “deep calls unto deep”.
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