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can not be imagined by the flesh and yet still exists as a material fact whilst being
supernatural (Rom 1:21-22, 1 Cor 2:11, 2 Tim 3:15-17). In other words anybody
can say, falsely, that the Holy Ghost has told them something but the Word as text-
in-the-material is, manifestly, what it is (Rom 1:22, 2 Tim 3:15-17, Rev 22:18-19).
Furthermore the flesh mind which is at enmity with the basic spirit of a Christian
and the Holy Ghost within him or her (Rom 8:7) is overcome and forced to read by
a fleshly, biochemical process, the very Word of God as text-in-the-material. Even
though the flesh mind itself can not understand it (1 Cor 2:14) it can read it which
involves such an understanding as is necessary for proper reading, i.e. a natural
understanding, but not a spiritual understanding (Acts 8:28-32, Eph 3:4). The
unbelievers hearing parables understood the story in the natural but not spiritually
(Luke 8:10) and the parables of God are very memorable (John 16:4). The
mysterious miracle of faith is how God uses this process of overcoming the flesh,
whilst simultaneously actually using it as it hears the Word (Rom 10:17), to start to
increase spiritual understanding in the conscious mind (2 Cor 8:12).

Keys to Understanding by Right Division

The right division of the Word (2 Tim 2:15) is to discern the will of God on any
matter as expressed by the whole Word (John 1:1, 14, Jam 1:18, Rev 22:18-19). As
a mystery the indivisible and single Word (John 1:1), not Words, needs to be
interpreted by understanding what is divided into the Law and the Law of Christ
and where the correct point of division lies (2 Tim 2:15), as for example between
the New (Mat 26:28, Luke 22:20) and the Old Testament, where the correct line of
division is the Last Supper and not the birth of Jesus, or between a prophecy
relating to the first (1 Cor 15:51) or second resurrection (Rev 20:12-15).
Nonetheless there is only the one integrated Word (John 1:1), the Person of Christ
(Rev 19:13) and of God (Jer 14:22, John 1:1, Rev 19:16) just as both the Law
(Deut 30:10, John 1:1) and the Law of Christ (John 14:6, 20:28) are God. The
following apply:

Mysteries

God is not to be understood by our logic or what makes sense to our flesh brains (1
Cor 2:14). Not surprisingly many of the truths of God can only be expressed in a
form that our minds can understand, if at all, only in a mysterious way. Typically
this takes the form of two alternatives, logically incompatible, being
simultaneously true, an antinomy, which offends our way of thinking (1 Cor 2:14).
Furthermore all the key truths pertaining to the faith are in fact mysteries and no
truth about God is other than mysterious (Isaiah 40:28, 1 Cor 2:11, Eph 3:9, 1 Tim