i am sharing two significant verses from the book of galatians written by the apostle paul. they speak to the indwelling of the spirits and souls of repentant mankind by the holy spirit and how lives (in our time!) are guided by faith in the living son of god.

gal 2:19-21: for through the law i died to the law so that i might live for god. i have been crucified with christ and i no longer live, but christ lives in me. the life i live in the body, i live by faith in the son of god, who loved me and gave himself for me. i do not set aside the grace of god, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, christ died for nothing.

gal 5:22-25: but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. against such things there is no law. those who belong to christ jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. since we live by the spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit.

my focus over the last 25 years has been to learn, at least in part, how we “live by the spirit,” how we “keep in step with” and hear from the spirit so that we commune personally with him. i have applied the principle of dual interactionism to my studies, how the immaterial mind of man interacts bidirectionally with the immaterial mind of god/the holy spirit through the material neural synaptic networks of the human brain. progress in the neurosciences has clarified this communion, that it is real, employing the transmission of linguistically encoded action potentials that are learned and interpreted over a lifetime and archived in memory. I have posted compelling evidence over these many years that validates this communion that occurs in our time, as has been documented in the biblical narratives.

2 Corinthians 5:

now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from god, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. for while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. now it is god who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

2 COR 5:14-15:

FOR CHRIST’S LOVE COMPELS US, BECAUSE WE ARE CONVINCED THAT ONE DIED FOR ALL, AND THEREFORE ALL DIED. AND HE DIED FOR ALL, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE SHOULD NO LONGER LIVE FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR HIM WHO DIED FOR THEM AND WAS RAISED AGAIN.

2 Cor 5:16-21:

so from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. though we once regarded christ in this way, we do so no longer. therefore, if anyone is in christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! all this is from god, who reconciled us to himself through christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that god wAS RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST, NOT COUNTING MEN’S SINS AGAINST THEM. AND HE HAS COMMITTED TO US THE MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATI0N. WE ARE THEREFORE CHRIST’S AMBASSADORS, AS THOUGH GOD WERE MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US. WE IMPLORE YOU ON CHRIST’S BEHALF: BE RECONCILED TO GOD. GOD MADE HIM WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN HIM WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.

I SHARE THESE VERSES TO SHOW THE BOUNDLESS LOVE OF GOD WHO GAVE HIS SON, JESUS, TO BE A SIN SACRIFICE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE COMMUNION RESTORED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AS INTENDED FROM THE CREATION OF ADAM, BUT LOST AT THE FALL. GOD’S LOVE IS THAT ALL MIGHT BE SAVED, MADE POSSIBLE BY THE ATONING SACRIFICE OF JESUS ON THE CROSS.

I am posting several verses from Romans 8 that speak to life when we are indwelled by the holy spirit:

8:5 those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires.

8:9 you, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the spirit, if indeed the spirit of god lives in you. and if anyone does not have the spirit of christ, they do not belong to christ.

8:10 But if christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the spirit gives life because of righteousness.

8:15 the spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather the spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. and by him we cry, father.

in the previous blog post i offered the following statement:

“he [HOLY SPIRIT] does have the capacity to observe any and all aspects of his creation, including the immaterial mind of human beings. he can transmit specified information into our minds WITHIN linguistic neural codes which the cognitive mind of man can interpret.”

the apostle mark in 13:11 said, “whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the holy spirit.”

THIS VERSE FROM Mark and my comments give testimony to the reality of dual interaction between the mind of god and the mind of man, both immaterial entities CAUSALLY reactive with the mATERIAL NEURAL SYNAPTIC NETWORKS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN. GOD THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRT STILL COMMUNES WITH US IN OUR TIME.

Michael guillen composed an article as an opinion on Fox news entitled, the quantum mystery that may explain how god knows every thought you have. it is an interesting application of entanglement in quantum mechanics to the mind of god. the author states, “the concept of divine omniscience is not just plausible; its mechanism is woven into the very fabric of spacetime. . . . quantum entanglement clearly offers us a stunning scientific explication of the age-old belief in an omniscient god.”

in my writings i have adhered to the orthodox belief in theism in which our triune god is distinct from his creations, including quantum mechanics and its components. i have presented compelling evidence for dualist interactionism wherein the immaterial mind of god (and mind of man) interact causally with the material components of the brain’s neural synaptic networks, its linguistic codes, which transmit specified information interpreted by the cognitive mind and soul of man. i have not addressed a possible role of quantum entanglement as has this author.

guillen POSITS THAT GOD “IS STRONGLY ENTANGLED WITH THE WHOLE OF CrEATION - RIGHT DOWN TO THE VERY ATOMS OF OUR BEING - BY VIRTUE OF HIS BEING THE SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE and everything in it. . . . the existence of quantum entanglement offers us a fresh perspective on god’s omniscience. it suggests that god’s awareness of the universe is not obtained through observation; it’s acquired via an intimate, instantaneous, ‘spooky’ connection” [referring to einstein’s claim that entanglement was “spooky action at a distance”]. guillen continued: “god instantaneously knows and feels everything that happens to every single atom anywhere in the universe - and beyond. there’s no distance too great, no darkness too deep, to sever that deep, fundamental connection [italics added] between creator and creation.”

my rebuttal relates to my opening comment that “god is distinct from his creations.” he is not intimately connected to his creations via the process of quantum entanglement, though he has the power to interact with the process. no, he does have the capacity to observe any and all aspects of his creation, including the immaterial mind of human beings. he can transmit specified information into our minds as linguistic neural codes which the cognitive mind of man can interpret. and yes, god can also interpret the codes cognitively intiated and transmitted within our brain’s synaptic networks, but i posit that the processes do not depend on quantum entanglement but rather on mind-to-mind interaction.

guillen’s comments suggest a belief in the authenticity of panentheism and possibly also pantheism. let me explain:

panentheism - (all is in god) is the theological and philosophical view that god includes the universe within his being, but is not limited by it. god contains all reality in the world without being identical to it.

pantheism - (all is god) identifies god directly with the universe, holding that god and nature are the same.

i have taken my definitions from google.com, and i invite the reader to pursue this study to its meaningful conclusion. clearly, there is a distinction between god, the creator, and his creations, and there is a dual interaction between them.

in my next blog posts i shall comment on an article that relates quantum entanglement to the omniscience of god.

i close this series of blogs with a final excerpt from johnston’s book, body of proof: a study on the resurrection of jesus:

“that jesus christ rose from the dead is an empirical claim. christianity is unique from other religions in that you can test the claims and beliefs because of - not in spite of - the evidence. the late non-christian philosopher of religion antony flew said, ‘the evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. it’s outstandingly different in quality and quantity.’

“it’s not hard to imagine why the early christian movement spread so rapidly around the mediterranean world. jesus’s disciples were passionate eyewitnesses to the abundant life and resurrected body he promised. peter and john said, ‘we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard’ (acts 4:20).”

so our ability to commune bidirectionally and directly with the holy spirit has been restored by the sin sacrifice of jesus christ and his resurrection. as he promised his disciples just prior to his crucifixion, he sent from the father the holy spirit to indwell those in repentance. in my writings i have endeavored to present with compelling evidence how, in part, this communion occurs between the immaterial mind of god, his holy spirit, the mind of man, created in the image of the mind of god, and the material synaptic networks of the human brain. minds in communion is a reality in our time.

“the hope we have because of the resurrection of jesus is an energizing hope that causes us to endure. resurrection hope is also subjective in that, while being led of the holy spirit, all believers share in an attitude of expectancy of present blessings from god in this life and the next.”

that the temple curtain tore in two from top to bottom at the moment of jesus’ death symbolizes the removal of the barrier between god and humanity that formed at the fall of man. this resulted in the spiritual death by which man in sin lost direct communion with the holy spirit. the indwelling was lost. (Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; luke 23:45) but the sin sacrifice of jesus restored the indwelling by the spirit, the direct access to god for all people in repentence, eliminating the need for a high priest to enter the holy of holies on their behalf. This direct dual interaction has been the focus of my research for a quarter of a century.

“when christians partake in the lord’s supper to remember and proclaim jesus’ death until he comes again (1 corinthians 11:26), they also reflect on his resurrection and proclaim that he lives.”

“the most important aspect of the gospels is the intentional focus on the final eight days of jesus’ earthly ministry . . . referred to by many as ‘the passion of the christ.’. . . the term ‘passion’ is connected to the latin word passio, which means suffering. . . . because jesus is who he claimed to be we can look to him with confidence and hope. . . . jesus relied on the old testament to clarify his mission and ministry. . . . we know the cross was not an accident or triumph of evil; it was the preordained will of god, and it was foretold in the old testament.”