Spiritual matters affect the soul because the soul is impressionable. Definition of impressionable: easily influenced because of a lack of critical ability.
We really should think of ourselves as children
Matthew 18:2-4 …Jesus invited a little child to stand among them. “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
John17:3
John 3:16
Ephesians
1Timothy 1:12-17
Guaranteeing our entrance
Ephesians1:13-14 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
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