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Prior to the advent of Adam, the humankind living upon the Earth would have thought they could define truth based upon what worked best in their experiences and in their collective behaviors. And that was indeed all they were capable of attaining with a natural soul (a nephesh).

With the advent of Adam, God mixed the spirit dimension into the universe of physical and mental life, and with spirit in mankind there was a means by which the human mind could, even if fleeting and brief in nature, tap into the field of God Truth ... Adam possessed a sense of right and wrong sourced in his spirit component (the neshama), not his loins. There is a huge hint of this state in the fact that God planted a garden with only one entrance/exist, and placed His special creation, Adam, in it for protection ... the same protection Cain realized he would not have with the banishment sentence God issued after Cain slew his brother Abel.

With the fall, the process of regeneration (in Christ) is essential to regaining this sense of God Truth right and wrong, for to reflect the character of God (and that's what God Truth is, a wording of the character of God) requires the life of God in the human spirit, as the earnest of an inheritance to come in fullness at some later where/when of final regeneration.

Science seeks admirably to establish truth (as far it may measure and quantify it) in reality of how the universe actually works, but this is an exercise confined to the spacetime, 4D realm and thus incapable of touching that which lies beyond this 4D realm, as in the dimension of soul and spirit, the neshama of our human reality.

Beautifully said, MHGinTN!

We can only directly observe phenomena that are taking place in time: Cause-and-effect ineluctibly involves a temporal process. The interesting thing is that once an observation has been made, it instantly becomes a part of "the past."

As you insightfully point out, humans live "in the dimension of soul and spirit, the neshama of our human reality" -- which do not belong to time proper, as conventionally understood. Science can't "go there"; but that doesn't mean that human participation in timelessness is an "illusion."

Thank you so very much for this beautiful essay/post!

[ Science seeks admirably to establish truth (as far it may measure and quantify it) in reality of how the universe actually works, but this is an exercise confined to the spacetime, 4D realm and thus incapable of touching that which lies beyond this 4D realm, as in the dimension of soul and spirit, the neshama of our human reality. ]

I buy the Spiritual Dimension.. But current science DNA and "Survival of the fittest" theory seems to war against the "Spirt/spirit", not God.. Seeming to "prove" the "ghost in the machine".. is a myth.. Which disproves God whom is a Spirit.. Evolution seems to "prove" that there is no such thing as a spirit/Spirit except as a literary operator..

My opinion is human kind are spirits riding Donkeys(human bodies) with the Donkey existing in one paradigm and the spirit existing in another(the Spiritual Dimension).. Human life being a Donkey Rodeo and human familys organized by Donkey Wranglers(parents).. The Donkey can die but the spirit lives on.. "somewhere".. If there is Not a Spiritual Dimension, well then, there ought to be..