But we also fell intellectually. Instead of using the Creator's Word as our test of truth, our natural tendency now is to use our own opinions, the opinions of rebellious, fallen man. The total man fell. Because the total man fell, salvation also is for the total man. He has to again move back to the Creator's Word as his test for truth.
Conversion involves a renewed mind.
Saying it in our terms, we start with a new worldview, the worldview of absolute truth given to us by the Creator. The Fall was a rejection of the Creator's word as truth test. Conversion involves a rejection of men's opinions as truth test and back to the Creator's word. Our presupposition is that Scripture, now, becomes our standard for truth. Conversion may involve all four steps at once, spiritual, emotional, moral, and intellectual.