As Jesus was dying on the cross he was heard in the ninth hour to cry out in Aramaic, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” - which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The holy God cannot abide with sin, and the sin of all mankind through history that Jesus bore on the cross caused his Father to turn his back on his Son, withdrawing his Holy Spirit from Jesus’ human spirit. But the eternal plan of God was to be fulfilled by the physical and spiritual death of Jesus the Man carrying the sins of mankind. Jesus was a sinless propitiating sacrificial lamb for the redemption of Man from sin.

Jesus manifested the Mind and will of God the Father through his spiritual intimacy with the indwelling Holy Spirit expressed through his life and teachings, testifying to the consubstantiality between the Father and the Son, the God-Man, sent by God for a purpose.

Jesus taught Nicodemus, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”

Jesus was begotten by the Father as the Son and not created as humanity has been. The Nicene Creed makes this clear:

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

The life of the Spirit in Jesus fulfilled the Law and pointed to the salvation offered in Christ in the days to come. Jesus made this promise to the disciples, “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of Truth. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him

Likewise, human beings were given spirit at their creation beginning with the first Adam enabling an intimate, direct, personal interaction with the Holy Spirit. However, the spiritual communion was lost at the Fall by Adam’s choice to live to Self and to be like God, knowing good and evil and facing an eternal spiritual death. It is a Fall that has been shared by all of mankind through history. But God’s redemptive purpose for Man in the incarnation was fulfilled by the life, substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus came to pay a debt He did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay. (Greg Laurie)

The Holy Spirit of the Father descended to indwell the human spirit of Jesus Christ at his baptism by John the Baptist. Thus was established a personal, intimate communion between God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. As it is cited in John 10:30 Jesus said to his disciples shortly before his arrest, “I and the Father are one.”

The mind of Man was created in the image of the Mind of God with whom an eternal, intimate, personal communion was made possible. But communion was lost by the sin of Adam, and mankind faced eternal spiritual death, eternally devoid of communion with the Holy Spirit. It was by the love and grace of God the Father that mankind has been offered redemption with restoration of communion by the atoning sin sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It was by God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ that mankind has been offered rescue and eternal salvation.

There is recognition in the Christian church that the writing of the Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Since 397 AD the church has considered the canon of the Bible to be complete, and the assumption of many is that the Holy Spirit ceased to communicate directly with people as occurred with the writers of Scripture. To the contrary, I present evidence in my second book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story, that the Counselor and Helper sent by the glorified and living Jesus Christ continues to interact with the mind of Man through the human spirit. I explain the significance of the torn temple curtain described in Mark 15:38 at the death of Jesus Christ in the ninth hour. It signified the restoration of a direct personal interaction with the Holy Spirit offered as an indwelling to Man by God’s love and grace, and it began with the Apostles at Pentecost.

Alvin Plantinga states that special divine action is compatible with quantum mechanics because it doesn’t determine a specific outcome for a given set of initial conditions. Instead it assigns probabilities to the possible outcomes. Special divine action is not restrained and is therefore free to select via a proposed nonmaterial energy (acting by quantum tunneling in the case of synaptic transmission) certain outcomes according to what William Dembski terms as “small probabilities” with specificity.