Christ And His Religion

y the redemption. The mind is usually divided into three faculties: the intellect that thinks, the heart that feels, and the will that chooses. If the divine change would be complete, it must be threefold in its nature: the understanding must be enlightened, the affections quickened, the will liberated. I. Divine Light For The Intellect, ProDucing A Sound Consciousness. The difficulty with the understanding of fallen man is found in the fact that there is no spiritual apprehension to it. There maybe correct reasoning in many things, and a real discovery of truth in many things, but, for all this, there is a sphere that is just as unknown, as colors are unknown to the blind. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." The mind needs to have a new cast and a new eye. 1. The divine light enables one to have a consciousness of God. It is not that the idea of God has dawned upon the mind, but it is that there is a sense of his existence. The impression that is made upon the soul is not from the force of argument: it is more solemn, clear, and divine than that. The creaturely spirit is in the midst of an atmosphere, and there is a realization of an Infinite Presence. The divine purity makes us to think of our sin; yet the divine love makes us to look upward with hope. Our vision becomes more clear, and the range of it more extended. In t...