in my book’s first chapter i share the following:
“. . . jesus explained what had been proclaimed in the old testament, that god is spirit, a living person. god can be known apart from our physical senses since human beings were created with spirit providing for an intimate and personal access to a bidirectional communion with the holy spirit, the father god. jesus the god-man was begotten with a human spirit and soul as has been all of mankind. the first created humans, adam and eve, while residing in the garden, possessed the capacity for an intimate communion with god the father through man’s animating spirit by which they knew the divine. but sin accounted for the fall of adam and eve, and the intimate, direct, personal interactive communion with the godhead was lost. because god is holy he could not abide the willful sin of man and withdrew his indwelling spirit from the spirit of man. this was the spiritual death about which god had warned them. but god had a plan for the redemption of man. spiritual death was to be undone by the sinless life and substitutionary death and resurrection of the ‘last adam,’ jesus christ, the word/logos. the sinless life and death of jesus served as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all mankind against god, against his holy spirit.”