While being reborn in the spirit, the onset of mental illness can be sparked. It is written that what is called rebirth, or being born from above, the rebirth Jesus spoke of, is a great correction of our spirit, soul, heart and mind back into it's proper relationship with God. This tremendous upheaval of our beliefs and the thinking processes that support them, and the views we hold of the world, that come with the awakening of our soul and mind into this new life, sends us onto a path that leads to mental illness. This period of our life that we spend being ill is akin to a filthy automobile, (the person we are at the time of our new birth), then being sent through a car wash where giant cleaning brushes and jets of water (the pain and hell of mental illness), violently clean the car so when the car exits the car wash, it is in a clean, new condition, (us after healing of our illness). Our illness is actually the quickest method God has at His disposal for cleaning and purifying our spirit and thinking, putting us in a new relationship with Him and getting us in tune with the life of Jesus. God's nature is one that includes utter soundness for our minds and part of healing the mind requires learning how His mind works in Jesus, through relating to Jesus. who was given to us that we might inherit His same mind, which anyone can. While mental illness entered the human race as part of the fall of the human race through Adam and Eve, which introduced disease into the world, God uses mental illness as a cleansing, cleaning, and corrective vehicle that makes possible massive transformation in a person who will view their illness as something that can be used to bring about great change in themself and their mind, and the way they are able to live their life.
