Man has five physical senses or gates, taste, touch, smell, see, and hear, and one spiritual sense, the Holy Spirit speaking through our spirit into our thoughts, with which to know the physical and spiritual worlds. Of these the physical senses of sight and hearing, and the spiritual sense are primary.
God’s power and majesty may be seen, through our physical senses, from His creative works (Rom. 1:20). From these visible physical things we should and must perceive and understand, through our spiritual sense, the invisible reality of a creator behind it all. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed - ordered and established - by the word of God, creating the visible from the invisible (Heb. 11:3). God’s creative will is the basis for all physical reality. This is a statement of faith, which “sees” with the spiritual sense the invisible as the true reality wherein our hope of salvation resides. So knowledge of God as the creator of the entire physical world leads us to knowledge of God as Savior, and King of an invisible world. This is a picture of how our physical senses take us from the visible through our spiritual sense and the invisible, to a saving knowledge of an invisible God and the faith to believe. The mind thinks, the soul feels, but the spirit, in concert with the Holy Spirit, knows.
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