Third, the mind is not viewed as being inferior to the heart in Scripture. We are to “be transformed by the renewing of [our] mind” (Rom 12:2). There is nothing inferior about the mind in that verse. Similarly, Paul exhorted the Ephesian believers, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind” (Eph 4:23). Paul spoke to the Corinthian believers of having “the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). Luke said that the Lord “opened [the disciples’] understanding [literally, mind], that they might comprehend the Scriptures,”