soldiers of mystery part 2

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him." But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Messiah's mind.
(1Co 2:7-16 HNV)

The rest of 1 cor 2, after vs 7 deals with what this mystery means. It's spirtual (from God's spirit). Those who have God's spirit, according to the text, know parts of what God knows, (limited only by His will). Those who have the world's spirit, know what the world knows. The two are striving and God's wisdom appears as foolishness to the world because it's extrasensory. it's outside of the realm of experience. God's wisdom compares spiritual things with spiritual things and so makes connections that few can argue are abstract!!!

But they are still real. The natural man is offered this wisdom but can't take it, because you need the spirit to make it make sense. I think God/Paul is taking about the spiritual implications of the world we breathe in. He goes on in chapter 3 to talk about how the church has split up, it has followed mere men instead of God. Then Paul says all things are yours, affirm truth everywhere because this mystery is real and God makes connections: spiritual connections that you cannot fathom! I have to reason this out but this theory would explain a lot of my experience. God give me spiritual wisdom to understand this how you want!

Daniyel