"Johnathan Edwards showed from scripture that this "spiritual sense" is given by God through supernatural new birth, effected by the word of God: " The first effect of the power of God in the heart in regeneration, is to give the heart a divine taste or sense; to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the divine nature." Therefore, to do Christian scholarship, a person must be born again. That is a person must not only see the effects of God's works in the world but also savor the beauty of God's natuer in the gospel, and in all that He has made, and in all that He does."
- John Piper, "Think"
It is wonderful to think about the concept that God gave us minds and the act of thinking to bring Him glory. Our minds are to be souly used in the pursuit of knowledge and glory for God. If we use our minds in any other manner it would be a waste of this precious gift God has given us.
