Communication absorbs the beliefs, values, and practices of the surrounding culture into a person from birth onward, instilling them through language, casual and formal instruction in homes and schools, and the constant activity of the five senses. This process occurs with little resistance because these traits constitute the only reality known during childhood and adolescence, becoming so deeply engrained that they later resist efforts to align with God's purpose. The source of most of these traits is Satan, who deceives the whole world and exercises his rule by communicating carnal attitudes through the course of this world. Communication also occurs with spirit beings. God and Christ transmit thoughts directly into the mind without sensory involvement, as do Satan and demons, who regard humans as enemies and seek to influence conduct invisibly. Words function as spirit in this process because they are immaterial and powerful once received, whether through reading, hearing, or direct transference. The course of this world operates as an invisible yet powerful current of carnal disposition that amplifies the inborn self-centered pull, shaping the heart so that it becomes deceitful and incurably evil. This communication explains why conversion requires a new heart supplied by God, which removes hatred toward Him and enables the will to choose obedience. Without that divine intervention the will remains subject to the corrupted heart formed by Satan's influence, rendering escape from Babylon impossible through human effort alone.

Communication occurs through multiple channels that transmit beliefs, values, and practices from their source to human minds. Cultural elements are absorbed from birth onward through the five senses during informal and formal instruction in homes, schools, and churches, as well as through language learned without conscious choice. These absorbed traits become integral to personal identity and create bondage that resists later efforts to break free. Satan, as the deceiver of the whole world and prince of the power of the air, supplies the overwhelming majority of such content, shaping the course of this world into carnal and evil patterns expressed differently across nations yet always self-centered rather than God-centered. Beyond sensory input, communication takes place directly from spirit beings. The Greek term pneuma denotes an invisible, immaterial current of power that can transfer thoughts into the mind without any involvement of sight, hearing, taste, smell, or touch. Such influence may produce immediate motivation to believe, speak, or act, or it may remain stored for later use. Biblical accounts illustrate this process: a demon transferred lying counsel invisibly into the minds of Ahab's prophets; Satan supplied Peter's rebuke of Jesus' necessary suffering; and the Spirit of the Father supplies words during persecution. Jesus' own words are described as spirit and life because they convey immaterial yet powerful concepts once received. This pervasive communication establishes the deceitful and desperately wicked condition of the natural heart, which remains at enmity with God and subject to the course of the world. Conversion requires replacement of that heart through the new covenant promises, enabling the called to discern and reject the evil influences communicated by Satan and his demons. Only the gift of a new heart from God empowers consistent obedience and the spiritual exit from Babylon.

Communication from this world, initiated through Satan's contact with Adam and Eve, corrupts good manners and produces the self-centered nature evident in all humanity. God created the first humans with a nature He pronounced very good, yet their willing submission to the evil one's differing beliefs, attitudes, and character immediately altered their perspectives and began the degenerative process that formed this present evil world. That single encounter passed corruption to their descendants, so that every person born into the existing cultures absorbs the same spirit and loses innocence, becoming deceived and bound to Satan without awareness. The resulting carnal mind forms a veil of blindness that opposes God and resists His approach, yet the miraculous removal of this veil through justification grants the first genuine opportunity to choose between the world's communication and God's. This choice establishes access to the Father and the Son, opening a relationship that supplies faith, hope, and love while countering the persistent remnant of worldly influence. Sin disrupts that relationship by breaking communication, hardening the mind, and risking complete departure from God, whereas continued obedience, prayer, Bible study, and submission to divine communication enable the law of the mind to prevail. The process requires ongoing yielding to God's will rather than the insistent promptings of the world, so that one may abide in the Son and the Father and receive the strength to overcome.