With the Fall of Man (Genesis 3) the image of God in humans was corrupted. Intimate communion between the soul of Man and the Holy Spirit was lost. In sin Man thereby experienced spiritual death, loss of communion between the human spirit and the Holy Spirit. Man’s mind became governed by his soul, by the will of his own self-centered focus.
The relationship between God and Man was and is designed to be a bidirectional, interactive one. Man’s capacity is to use all the communicative attributes of his Creator God, his mind being created in the image of the Mind of God. The restoration of this interaction depends upon Man’s repentance and the soul’s choice to follow the Counsel of the Holy Spirit through his human spirit. As the human spirit rules over the soul led by the indwelling Holy Spirit, the soul in turn expresses itself through the cognitive attributes of the human brain.