Psalm 19:1 - The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul.
The soul is the seat of our thinking, decision making and our feelings. Conversion of the soul is a matter of spiritual life and death. Initially from a soulish standpoint, man was designed to choose God above all else. Satan masterminded the fall of man so man would be on his side rather than God's. If you will recall the words "to be like God," came from the mind of Satan. God only creates in His image and after His likeness.
The fall destroyed the very life of God that was in Adam. It destroyed the light, the higher knowledge, that gave Adam the power to love God with all his heart, soul, mind and strength. Before the fall, there was nothing in him to cause him to choose anything but God. The serpent deceived Eve because Adam had been eating from her hand all along like two lovers feeding each other. Don't think Satan hadn't studied their intimate exchange and copied it! He copied what God had already established, twisted it and perverted it.
Now, the soul needs to be converted because it is that part of us where we decide what we are going to do, not based on the word of God, but based on our five (5) senses. Our five senses only respond to the stimuli of our environment. Since our environment was affected by the curse, we live in a world where we are enslaved to a system and a way of thinking that is not of God. In other words without the Spirit of God, we are naked which makes us ashamed and subjects us to condemnation. Our understanding in the soulish realm was darkened. Renewing the mind according to Romans 12:2 is the same as converting the soul.
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