My eldest brother and his wife do not have any children. They do have three dogs. The family refers to the dogs as “the boys.” The boys are well behaved due to diligent training from my brother and his wife.

As much as the dogs love to try to please my brother and his wife, they have their limitations as they do not have the human spirit. The dogs can not understand everything that humans can understand.

1 Corinthians 2:11 states, “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”

So it is with mankind. We have the spirit of man, not God. Yet we were created In the Image of God. Unlike the dogs, who can never receive the spirit of man, God has offered us a way to be Born Again and receive the Spirit of God.

We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
            For who has known the mind of the Lord
            that he may instruct him?"

But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16