It is separation I felt, separation from the ground of all meaning, from somewhere, from Someone who alone gave the sense of belonging and meaning that my humanness demanded. Men have wandered east of Eden, where there was life in His presence, and they find themselves in a place of sterility and barrenness of soul struggling to be free from the One who claims He can set men free. I was beginning to realise that I had been raised on lies and distortions as to the real nature of the problem and its solution. If, as the Bible taught, men are actually dead in trespasses and sins, then all the religious fitness training in the world will never make men alive. There is no singing in the cemetery.
Death has an inescapable finality about it.
Deep in all men, where they are really human, the Word of God says there is a corpse. Only Divinity can revive corpses. I discovered that the Lord Jesus said that men must be born again. Now I was coming to understand that I was dead apart from a personal relationship with the Logos or Reason Himself. This Rational Word was always with God and was Himself God, but the gospel was saying that for the sake of man God the Son became man and lived amongst sinners.