When God created Adam He breathed “the breath of life” into him. (Genesis 2:7) It is this life from God that is identified with the eternal human spirit. It is the soul of Man that is the vehicle through which the mind’s will operates. If a repentant person’s soul wills to obey God, it will allow the human spirit to direct the mind and will of Man as counseled by the indwelling Holy Spirit. As the spirit acts upon the soul of Man, the soul in turn expresses itself through the human brain and body.

One may ask about the inclusion of scientific content in my books and blogs, “So what?” How will a description of the neurophysiological processes of synaptic transmission contribute to understanding the justification and sanctification of repentant individuals by the power of the Holy Spirit? In answer, dualist interactive mechanisms were created by God, and their understanding promises to give clarity to God’s love and grace offered for our redemption at the great cost of his Son, Jesus Christ. It can lead one to accept the reality that the Holy Spirit communicates in our time through the human spirit with the mind and soul of Man through the brain’s synaptic networks.

Paul says, “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” (Romans 8:9-11)

We believe that God - who is perfectly merciful and also very just - sent the Son to assume the nature in which the disobedience had been committed, in order to bear in it the punishment of sin by his most bitter passion and death. So God made known his justice toward his Son, who was charged with our sin, and he poured out his goodness and mercy on us, who are guilty and worthy of damnation, giving to us his Son to die, by a most perfect love, and raising him to life for our justification, in order that by him we might have immortality and eternal life. (Article 20, Belgic Confession)

Restitution of an intimate, direct, personal communion between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit and repentant soul of Man has been made available through the living Jesus Christ. Mankind is redeemed in repentence. Sin is forgiven. The penalty has been paid. this is the good news of the gospel. i am sharing information in my writings that presents compelling justification for dualist interaction between the holy spirit and the spirit and soul of man through neural synaptic networks. god has always desired a personal, bidirectional communion with man.

When the purpose of the Father for Jesus’ death had been accomplished, giving death to sin, the [human] spirit of Jesus was reunited with the Holy Spirit. So his spirit became again fully at one with the Holy Spirit in eternal triune communion with God the Father.

“…what [Jesus] committed to his Father when he died was a real human spirit which left his body. But meanwhile his divine nature remained united with his human nature even when he was lying in the grave, and his deity never ceased to be in him….These are the reasons why we confess him to be true God and truly human - true God in order to conquer death by his power, and truly human that he might die for us in the weakness of his flesh.” [Article 19, Belgic Confession]

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.

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 and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was by God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ that mankind has been offered rescue and eternal salvation in repentence. this is the good news of the gospel. god desires personal communion with man.

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.