When someone turns to Christ, we say that (s)he is "born again", and quite accurately so. But there is a sense also in which Christ is also "born again" - "born", that is to say, in the spirit of the new believer! Christ comes into that person as his/her new "Self". The old self is not reformed, but is reckoned as being dead in the eyes of God. Growth in the Christian life is by allowing this old, dead, self to wither away and the new Self (Christ within, the hope of glory) to by degrees become the controlling source of ones desires and aspirations.
We are all born with a sort of "spiritual eye" but because of original sin, this is clouded and dysfunctional. Some Christians speak of the Inward Light. This is the Light entering through the spiritual eye, but it is no more a "part" of the human spirit than the natural light entering through the corporeal eye is part of the human body. But even the Light is distorted by the diseased spiritual eye ... until, that is, God heals this "eye" in those he has chosen to be spiritually healed. That is when we spiritually perceive the truth of what the Bible reveals about Jesus and he becomes plain to us, born within us and becoming our true Self.
We are all born with a sort of "spiritual eye" but because of original sin, this is clouded and dysfunctional. Some Christians speak of the Inward Light. This is the Light entering through the spiritual eye, but it is no more a "part" of the human spirit than the natural light entering through the corporeal eye is part of the human body. But even the Light is distorted by the diseased spiritual eye ... until, that is, God heals this "eye" in those he has chosen to be spiritually healed. That is when we spiritually perceive the truth of what the Bible reveals about Jesus and he becomes plain to us, born within us and becoming our true Self.