God's intent for our brain

A Facebook conversation I found interesting:

PJ - What was the original intent for our brain?

MSF - It was to create things in the physical realm out of the overflow of the spiritual things.

MSF - Our mind worships the Lord and brings glory to Him by becoming renewed via the spirit. Then we bring the things into earth that heaven has revealed through practical, physical creation. We do balance the knowledge of our brain through biblical study and the study of other things, but not knowledge that puffs up, we submit it to the spirit.

Me - The mind is informed by the spirit. The Spirit of God gives life to our spirits and gives us the ability to being our minds into conformance with God.

Rom 8:6-8 - "The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so."

1 Cor 1:14 "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."

Luke 24:45 - "Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures."

I can find no Scripture that speaks of creating reality. Sorry.

MSF - I agree with those verses, they are the support for what I'm getting at. I was trying to get at the fact that our brain controls the motor functions and other systems of our body. Our mind is made up by our soul (mind, will, and emotions). When they are submitted to the Lord through our spirit, to His spirit, then we begin to function in original intent. Does that make sense? I was making the case for our spirit to know and understand God, and that our brain or mind is not what we connect to Him with, as is so often tried. The verse that sparked that was the one you quoted from I Corinthians. I just read from chapter 1 and 2 and mistakenly cited chapter 2 as the source.

Me - I Gotcha. However, you did write that the brain "...was to create things in the physical realm..."

What did you mean by that?

MSF - The brain controls our motor functions, the physical body. God created the physical universe and gave us physical bodies to co-create in a physical world. The creator God created us to also create and glorify Him in that. So I think our brain was designed to make the physical manifestations on earth from the spiritual reality of God.

Me - Scripture reference?

MSF - I love your questions, Rich. They always challenge me to better articulate myself and really cite scripture. It always forces me to be sharpened in that simple way.

Genesis 2:15 "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."

God made Adam physically, in addition to the breathe of the spirit which brought him life, to do physical things with creation. God even delighted in how Adam would use his mind to be creative: "...He brought them (the animals) to the man to see what he would name them..." Gen 2:19

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

In Exodus 31:1-11 we see that some of the first people who were filled with the Spirit were craftsmen and creative people.

Jesus said that he brought glory to the Father by completing every work that the Father set for Him to do.

Now, obviously the only fruit that means anything is eternal things, but we use our body to bring about these things "on earth as it is in Heaven". What's born in the spirit is brought into fruition into physical earth, though it is in the spiritual realm. My deduction is that taking that "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing..." (John 6:63) and yet we are flesh, I believe the flesh has a role to play as a middle man on this side of eternity. If we submit the body and soul to the Spirit, we can produce spiritual things in the earth.

Me - I'm trying to determine if you are talking about how we might use the intellect, sanctified by the Spirit, to build, create, and form things as skillful workmen (i.e., the fruit of our labors); or, if you are referring to what is popularly known as "name it and claim it," where our words have power to create things.

MSF - the first one.