These Stones to Raise up Children unto Abraham
The God created the spirit world and the material world including the human world.
But, it seems that the God first created the spirit world and then the material world using spiritual energy in the spirit world. And then, the God created the human world using the spiritual energy and the material energy in the material world. Therefore, the spiritual energy can work in the material world and also in the human world.
And the Lord Jesus Christ emphasized that the God Himself is a Spirit:
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4)
We have to admit that we have the material body and the mind working in the body. Even scientists who have tried to find where the mind is in the brain have to use their minds to claim that there is no such a thing as a mind in the brain.
We should assume that a spirit comes from the spirit world to enter into the human brain to become a soul working to generate a mind. Indeed, even AI in an artificial brain in the computer cannot generate a human mind working on a soul generated from a spirit. But, it is a surprise that the human brain made of material atoms and molecules can provide an environment where a spirit enters and becomes a soul to generate a mind.
However, the Lord Jesus Christ said that the God can generate descendants of Abraham from stones:
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. (Matthew 3)
Indeed, rocks, stones, and debris floating around the sun about five billion years ago formed the earth to generate various living things and finally the mankind including Abraham. No ancestors of Abraham were floating among the rocks, stones, and debris around the sun about five billion years ago. But their spirits were waiting in the spirit world for the living things to be generated in the earth and evolve into homo sapiens. As the brains of the homo sapiens grew to be complex enough to give room to spirits for performing complicated work, the spirits came into the brain of the homo sapiens so that the human beings were established.
No human minds can be generated from rocks, stones, and debris floating around the sun five billion years ago. They were generated as human spirits entered into the brains of the mankind to become souls whose work gave rise to minds.
The key to understanding supernatural phenomena, spiritual ability and supernatural power of men, and various miracles caused by saints and holly men like the Lord Jesus Christ is how clearly we can understand this truth.
Put simply: Where have we come? We have come from the spirit world; Where are we going? We are going back to the spirit world; and What are we? We are spirits in the foam of souls with minds in the human bodies.
To be precise, without faith in the God who created the spirit world and the material world, we are nothing or a kind of rocks, stones, and debris just floating around the sun.
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John 7, King James Version
7 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.