Body, Soul, Spirit- Formed, Made, Created

The foundations have been set for understanding the accuracy of God’s Word regarding how Scripture interprets itself, how the Word of God came into existence, and how this Word of God can be trusted when rightly divided. Now we are ready to proceed to working The Word to bring it into fruition in our understanding and our lives. One of the great subjects in the Word of God is the new birth; it is the crux of Christianity. The new birth is the miracle of all miracles. I cannot explain it; but 1 believe that, by God’s mercy and grace, we can approach The Word and it will explain itself so that we can understand. Before we move into the depth of the new birth, we must realize some fundamental terms. When I speak of the “natural man,” I speak of the man of body and soul, the man who is not born again of God’s Spirit. This is the accurate Biblical usage of natural man . The five senses are the only avenues of learning that the natural man has to gain knowledge. Everything that ever comes to a natural man’s mind must come by one or a combination of these five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. We gather information through our five senses from a source or sources outside ourselves. We come to conclusions from our accumulated knowledge, and thus we believe what we believe. Being aware of the process of learning, I came to the conclusion many years ago that for me the Word of God (not the King James Version, but the Word of God which was given when “...holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost”) would be my source for truth. This is my center of reference for learning. For years I read around the Word of God with the writers of outside works being centers of reference for me. Soon I suffered from a common disease called mental confusion because equally great men regarding the same verse of Scripture would contradict each other. When I began to consider the process of learning, I finally came to the conclusion that instead of spending my l