To create man God incarnated the fiery spiritual principle of his life in the watery confines of material bodies. That is the truest basic description of man that anthropology can present. All problems spring from that foundation and are referable for solution back to it. Man is, then, a natural man and a god, in combination. Our natural body gives the soul of man its baptism by water; our nascent spiritual body is to give us the later baptism by fire! We are born first as the natural man; then as the spiritual. Or we are born first by water and then by fire. Of vital significance at this point are two statements by St. Paul: ''That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural''; and, ''First that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.'' Again he says: ''For the natural man comprehendeth not the things of the spirit of God, neither can he.'' Of course not; for he is not yet in that higher kingdom of evolution...
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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