The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

104 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALhuman brain the power of intellect - of thinking, reasoning, decisionmaking. This is explained in detail in chapter 7.This mind, then, with which each human is boro is the natural,carnal human mind. And "the carnal mind is enmity [hostile}against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeedcan be" (Rom. 8:7). This mind is limited to the acquisition ofphysical knowledge.To comprehend the things of God - spiritual knowledge - isimpossible without receiving as God's gift His Holy Spirit- a secondspirit added to the "human" spirit with which each person isboro.God's creation of MAN was perfect as a physical creation, yetincomplete! This physical creation began with Adam, but the spiritualcreation must begin with the second Adam- Jesus Christ.When God sentenced Adam's human race to 6,000 years ofbeing CUT OFF from contact with God, He made an exception. Hereserved to Himself the prerogative of calling into His servicesuch as He required to fulfill His PURPOSE!God had called Abraham. And 430 years after, God calledAbraham's descendants through Isaac and Israel, then called "theChildren of Israel." At that time they were in Egyptian slavery.U nder leadership of M oses, God led them out of Egypt, to inheritthe Promised Land.At Mount Sinai, God otfered them a covenant agreement,later called "the Old Covenant." U pon obedience to Goo's GOV­ERNMENT over them, God promised to make them the most prosperous,most powerful nation on earth. But God promised themonty temporal, material and national rewards - NOT His HolySpirit of eternallife.This hostile mind, unsubmissive to God, we shall see inchapter 10, had been subtilely and invisibly injected into humanminds through the human spirit, by Satan. A baby is not borowith it. The "prince ofthe power ofthe air" (Eph. 2:2) begins implantingit as early in life as the human mind begins to absorbknowledge and to function.Modero intellectuals have said, "given sufficient KNOWL­EDGE, the human mind can solve all problems."One of God's purposes in Old Covenant Israel was to PRO VE,