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36 Battle for the Mind If you accept these concepts, then in your mind is: ■ Your life ■ Your soul ■ Your appetite ■ Your person ■ YOU—the total person Furthermore, in Hebrew, the etymological root of nephesh is “to breathe, or refresh one’s self.” This is evident in the creation of people because when God made people, He made a panoply (covering) of flesh from the dust of the ground, which was not alive until God blew breath into Adam. Thus, the life of people is housed within that panoply of flesh, and what is housed in the panoply of flesh is nephesh—the mind. This means that the mind, which is one’s life, person, appetite, and creature is directly linked to God’s breath. It is now God’s breath inside this panoply of flesh. In other words, the soul (nephesh) of a person is connected to the very breath (nephesh) of God; as soon as you become a living soul, your spirit and mind are connected to God. Likewise, when the Lord visited Adam in the cool of the day, He didn’t visit his physicality (panopy of flesh), because his physicality was already given to Eve. God came to visit Adam’s mind, which is also nephesh. He came to deal with what He had breathed (nephesh) into the man. Thus, any time the mind (nephesh) does not have the shackles of the flesh, it reaches for God. The writer says in Psalm 42:1, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul [nephesh] for You, O God.” Human beings have a natural knowledge of God; and John Calvin said, There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity…. God himself has planted in all men a certain understanding of His divine majesty. Not only has God sowed in man’s minds that seed of religion, but has revealed Himself and daily discloses Himself in the whole workmanship of the universe. 4
Surviving the Mind Fields 37 Similarly, prescientific Greek theories, which are rooted in theology, concentrate on the relationship between the mind and the soul, the supposed supernatural or divine essence of the human person. For example, Aristotle approached the concept of the soul from an essentially scientific perspective, employing elements of biology and metaphysics that encompassed everything from the concepts of substance, form, and matter, to those of potentiality and actuality. 5 Essentially, while Christians and other religious faiths have traditionally deemed the soul to be an immortal entity that lives on after physical death, Aristotle viewed the soul as united with the living body and, therefore, unable to exist without a host—the body. He also regarded the soul or mind as the truth of the body. 6 In essence, initially in God’s primal creation of humanity, the body or the panoply of flesh was hosting the mind, but it was not antagonistic to the originally intended relationship of the mind with God. It was sin that contaminated the flesh and made it antagonistic or hostile to the relationship; thus, now the flesh, because of sin, has changed—as Aristotle would say—from being a host to now being a prison warden. Mind is also the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those that are subjectively conscious, such as personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence, and emotion. Modern Greek theories see the mind as a phenomenon of psychology, and the term is often used synonymously with consciousness. The Greek concept of “mind” comes from the word phroneo, and it means “to set one’s mind on a thing.” 7 The Lord says, “You have to set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (see Col. 3:2). We must set our minds on things above because the mind is seeking to operate in the realm of its natural environment and not be controlled by the limitations of sinful flesh. Thus, the intent of the Spirit in its war against the flesh is to free your mind from being suffocated by the flesh.
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