The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

74 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALLet me make clear a few essential points about this spirit inman. lt is spirit essence, just as in matter air is essence, and so iswater. This human spirit cannot see. The physical BRAIN sees,through the eyes. The human spirit IN a person cannot hear. Thebrain hears through the ears. This human spirit cannot think. Thebrain thinks - although the spirit imparts the power to think,whereas brute animal brains without such spirit cannot, except inthe most elementary manner.A scripture often used by believers in an "immortal soul" explains.In I Corinthians 2, the apostle Paul is explaining to theCorinthians that he did not come to them using hard to understandspeech as many do to exalt their own vanity. He carne tothem with plain and simple speech, in humility. And yet none ofthe princes, the elite, the highly educated - the rulers - of thisworld could understand.WHY couldn't the more highly learned understand? Becausehe was preaching Christ's message of the Kingdom of God. Thisis spiritual knowledge. This kind of knowledge cannot be seen bythe physical eye, nor heard with the physical ear. Spiritual knowledgecannot enter the human mind by natural means - for spiritcannot be seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled.Then he explains that in this manner (verse ll) no MANcould have the knowledge a man possesses, except by "the spiritof man which is in him." The brute animal has a brain virtuallyidentical to human brain- and sorne even larger. But their brainscannot KNOW- comprehend- what man knows. Neither couldman without the spirit of man which is in him. In other words, thisspirit imparts the power ofintellect to the human brain.Yet this human MIND is limited to knowledge of the physical.lt cannot KNOW - comprehend - the spiritual things of God.WHY? Because even the human MIND only can know, naturally,what knowledge comes to it through the senses of seeing, hearing,smelling, tasting, feeling. A brute animal also may see, hear,smell, taste or feel what a man does, and still be unable to utilizewhat enters bis brain in thought or knowledge. The reason for thiswill be explained later.Now the second half of I Corinthians 2: 11: "EVEN so" (inlike manner) no man can know - have knowledge of, understand