How spiritually draining is it to be in a personal relationship with a person who is not filled with the Holy Spirit! When the vicissitudes of life make their presentation they have no power to stand/withstand and therefore must parasitically energize themselves with yours! Ratiocination (Logical processes of reason), animistic response (responses in the ontological realm of the soul), and spiritual acumen (discernment through ecstatic revelatory experiences) become compromised damaging and marking the relationship as one of battle and weakness rather than one of strength and love! Fear and distrust ensue making victims rather than agents of unconditional love! This is what makes the word of the Lord true through the Apostle Paul when he states: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” and again: “What part hath he that believeth with an infidel”! The only answer to this conundrum is the “New Coherency” (Cox) or “New Creation” (Paul) or “New Being” (Tillich) in Christ! (Another oil point from “Theology Nation”)
-Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox