The part of a person that thinks and reasons is called Mind. Although the Hebrew language had no word for mind, several Hebrew words are sometimes translated as 'mind'. In the Old Testament, the word for Heart frequently means 'mind'. The word for Soul is sometimes used similarly as is the word for Spirit. - The spirit of Yahweh fell on me and he said to me, 'Say, - Ezek. 11:5 - No Hebrew word is translated as brain in English versions of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible.

And when all these words come true for you, the blessing and the curse I have set before you, if you meditate on them in your heart wherever among the nations Yahweh your God drives you, if you return to Yahweh your God, if you obey his voice with all your heart and soul in everything I enjoin on you today, you and your children. - Deut. 30:1-2 -

And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind; for Yahweh searches every heart and knows every plan it devises. If you seek him, he will let you find him; once forsake him, and he casts you off forever. - 1Chr. 28:9 -

Four separate Greek words account for nearly all instances of "mind" in the New Testament. They all mean much the same thing: understanding, thought, mind, reason. While today we think of a person's mind in a morally neutral way, in the New Testament the mind was clearly thought of as either good or evil. Negatively, the mind may be 'hardened', 'blinded', 'corrupt' and 'debased'. - Men like this defy the truth just as Jannes and Jambres defied Moses: their minds are corrupt and their faith spurious. - 2Tim. 3:8 - In other words, since they refused to see it was rational to acknowledge God, God left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behaviour... - Rom. 1:28-32 -

Having this hope, we can be quite confident; not like Moses who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not notice the ending of what had to fade. And anyway, their minds had been dulled; indeed, to this very day that the same veil is still there when the old covenant is being read, a veil never lifted since Christ alone can remove it. - 2Cor. 3:12-14 -

If our gospel does not penetrate the veil, then the veil is on those who are not on the way to salvation; the unbelievers whose minds the god of this world has blinded, to stop them seeing the light shed by the Good News of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. - 2Cor. 4:3-4 -

Positively, humans may have minds which are renewed and pure. They may love God with all their minds and have God's laws implanted in their minds. Since Christians have the mind of Christ they are instructed to be united in mind.

Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around you but let your behaviour change, modelled by your new mind. This is the only way to discover the will of God and know what is good, what it is that God wants, what is the perfect thing to do. - Rom. 12:2 - 12:16 -

No, this is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel when those days arrive - it is the Lord who speaks. I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. - Heb. 8:10 -

My friends, this is my second letter to you and both of them I have tried to awaken a true understanding in you by giving you a reminder: recalling to you what was said in the past by the holy prophets and the commandments of the Lord and saviour which you were given by the apostles. - 2Peter 3:1-2 - Finally: you should all agree among yourselves and be sympathetic; love the brothers, have compassion and be self-effacing. - 1Peter 3:8 -

As scripture says: Who can know the mind of the Lord, so who can teach him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ. - 1Cor. 2:16 -

The Lord our God is the one Lord and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. - Mark 12:30; Matt. 22:37; Luke 10:27 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -