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 hey may instruct
him?” [Isaiah 40.13] But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2.14-16
Two Minds
Our minds respond to opposing drives—sinful (or carnal) nature and
spiritual desire (Romans 8.5-8)
Behaviors of the sinful mind (1 Timothy 6.3-5)
Behaviors of the spiritual mind (Philippians 4.8)
Dysfunction occurs when we try to obey both minds simultaneously
(James 1.5-8)
The first step to thinking like Christ, then, is training our minds to respond
to spiritual impulses and reject sinful ones (1 Peter 1.13-16; 2 Corinthians
10.5)