Lesson 4
The Brain Soul Complex
DOCTRINE: THE SOUL
1. There must be a
distinction made between the material brain process and the "living
soul" (the real you). Heb
a. The human soul is inseparably tied to the material
brain process but it is a substance distinct and special in its own right. .
- true from birth to death, at death we're face to face
and "unplugged" from the 5 senses to human life and history
b. It is some substance probably in the form of a higher
electrical energy which has not yet been categorized, evaluated, or measured.
NOTE: It has been demonstrated and documented that all
activity in the B/C is made possible by a form of electrical current. (some describe it as an electro-chemical process)
c.
The
soul has essence and life and is created by God. Isa 42:5; Job
33:4; Job 12:10; 27:3; 34:14-15
d.
The
human soul shares with, or sparks the brain computer, this is illustrated for
us by the "Neshemah" in Gen
2:7.
e.
Some
functions of the soul as defined by the WOG cannot be found clinically in the
brain:
1. volition - capacity to express
the will/desire of the soul - make decisions; a part of determining what the BC
stores in memory
2. emotions - appreciator of life
3. self-consciousness - awareness
of one's own existence
4. analysis center - thinking,
perceptive comprehension
5. Conscience - only as good as the norms and standards
used to form it
None
of these functions are operational under petit mal
f.
Only
the soul and not the body is created in the image of God (shadow image - tselem
Gen
2. The brain being part of the "body of
corruption" with the sin nature has some characteristics of a computer
(BC).
It
is the soul and the BC working together that provides what we normally think of
as the function of the mind.
a. The BC on its own can only give to the soul in its
analysis center distorted information.
b. This is the lot of the unbeliever, the carnal or
reversionistic believer.
3. However by the
ministries of the Holy Spirit the believer can accumulate maximum doctrine
resident through the grace provisions given at salvation
a. It is Doctrine, DVPT stored that becomes the inner
dictator under the ministry of the Holy Spirit that rules the brain and
eventually re-programs it from hu/vpt to DVPT. (renewing of the
mind)
b. Therefore the BC is either the ruler of the soul or
ruled by the soul with maximum BD/RS.
This is linked to the operational ministry of the Holy Spirit.
4. Only the soul
overruling the BC and re-programming it with BD will ever convert it from a
storage bank of the knowledge of good and evil to a storage bank of
Doctrine/DVPT.
a. Even with BD stored in the BC, the brain will distort
this doctrine and give inaccurate read-outs to the analysis center apart from
the ministries of the Holy Spirit via the human spirit. Isa 42:5.
b. Illustration: The Corinthian and Galatian churches.
Both
churches had been taught extensively by Paul.
Many
in those churches failed to maintain their spiritual integrity and momentum and
had a distorted perception of reality when they were faced with tests and false
doctrine.
Result
is that they made many bad choices pursuing human viewpoint.
5. The ministry of
the Holy Spirit under the concept of spirituality (E/HS) imposes a supernatural
circuitry on the BC.
a. When we choose to walk by the Spirit the human spirit
becomes operational.
b. This provides the clear readouts of data from the BC to
the analysis center of the soul for clear/sound thinking based on truth.
6. This
supernatural circuitry involves the human spirit functioning as a spiritual
brain-stem and giving direct, clear, and undistorted readouts of BD - DVPT to
the soul's analysis center.
a. The human spirit only operates under the conditions of
the E/HS.
b.
The unbeliever has no human spirit. 1 Cor
c. At salvation (because of regeneration, baptism of HS,
indwelling of the HS) each believer is positionally free from the domination of
the sin nature and
its lust patterns. Rom 6:6,7
d. But experientially we are not free from personal sins
apart from continually walking by the Spirit, walking by faith. Rom 8:3,4,14
e. We are not separated experientially from human good and
evil until we re-program the BC providing the Holy Spirit the spiritual muscle
necessary to make sound decisions to consistently present ourselves for
service. Rom 6:11-13, 22.
7. The soul then becomes
the real battleground in the Angelic Conflict.- that
is during human history. Ps 143:3,12; Eph 6:11-17 (spiritual provision for)
a. Since the soul is linked to knowledge and wisdom (Prov
- his objective is to see that the grace spiritual bypass is
shut down.
(to be continued next week)