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Originally Posted by craig1120
Going forward, this is the bare minimum of what it means to be a follower of Christ:
1) Acknowledgement of your soul
2) Identification with your soul
3) Acknowledgment of the division
Each moment requires all of the above. If in one moment someone fulfills all three, but fails to in the next moment, then that person is no longer a follower of Christ in that next moment.
To help us do this, we can look to the Cain and Abel story. Cain has been rejected by God in the past so he feels a sense of distrust and resistance to anything supernatural.
Abel is the true believer. He is certain that he is a child of God and is completely receptive to the supernatural due to his naive/deluded enthusiasm, which also never allows him to see and face when he is actually rejected by God.
Because of his past, Cain can not and will not fully transform himself into Abel, but he can let Abel into his house and make him his brother. Cain is still himself but once Abel is let into the house, then what Abel experiences is now accessible to Cain.
After this, Cain will be capable of identifying with his soul, even if it isn’t easy.