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.