EXCERPTS FROM....

PATH TO SANITY
 Lessons From Ancient Holy Counselors On How to Have a Sound Mind

by Dee Pennock
  published by Light and Life

Chapter 2

     There are certain diseases - you might call them spiritual birth defects - with which we are all born.  They are a part of being mortal (subject to death).  They are not our original true nature, but have come upon us because of the fall of Adam and Eve from Paradise.  Jesus came to heal these birth defects of ours, to deliver us from them and the death that goes with them, and to restore in us the spiritual nature we were created to have.

     We have two natures, you see: (1) the nature we were created with, which is the nature to which Christ restores us; and (2) the nature we were born with, which is the nature of the fallen Adam and Eve, in need of healing and redemption by God.  Being in God's (Christ's) image is the human nature we were created to possess and can now regain through Jesus.

     So we were not created to have any spiritual defects that are not in Christ, who has none.  No spiritual birth defects we've inherited through the flesh as a result of the fall of Adam are natural.  According to Scripture, they are all unnatural.  We were created with one nature and are born into this life with a different nature, a fallen nature with the various spiritual birth defects that accompany it. 

      To be continued...