Jesus said that His Words were spirit and life. By the very nature of God's revelation, it cannot be understood with a carnal mind. All of the things of God are "spiritually discerned." So certainly the carnal mind must be changed. To be carnally minded is DEATH, but to be spiritually minded is LIFE.
All of God's gifts of spiritual discernment, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, etc., start small and grow. Being "born again" does not make us spiritually mature adults in an instant of time. We grow in grace and knowledge and we mature in the spiritual things of God. I know and understand more today than I did even yesterday. Faith itself increases by the reading of God's Word--a process that takes time.
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