Your right I worded it wrongly. I should have stated that was Adam created he was spiritually alive. Did Adam have a spiritual connection to God that we have as Christians through the Holy Spirit? Also I was using the
English Standard Version translation for Genesis 6:3 so it does use the term abide. ill be sure to check all translations before posting again.
I would rather say that yes, our relationship with God is restored through Jesus' salvific work, it atones for our sin and restores the spirit of grace through love, because we are no longer the old man, but we are being renewed. Just as it is written "there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, who live according to the spirit and not the flesh". Whereas what we find is that the flesh is at enmity with the spirit, so the one who has become enslaved by sin has yielded to give his desires mastery over him (consider Genesis 4:7).
It is interesting to note what it is to have holy spirit: that is to be motivated of love without any sinful desire. That is the fundamental human nature, when a person is acting of their pure goodness, and that is what is meant when God says "let us make man in our image" - God is love, he who stays in love stays in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16).
When I first came to realise this, it was through learning about the Seven Deadly Sins. At that time, the Wikipedia page had the following words: "According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a mortal, or deadly sin, is believed to destroy the life of grace and charity within a person". It was those words that really hit home for me, and I realised that humans have a natural state of being gracious and charitable, except when sin causes them to act differently - they become less human in a way, they lose their instrinsic life of grace and charity. So we see people who are motivated by the flesh, they are acting from envy or pride or wrath, greed etc, and that takes away their ability to show the grace and charity - they begin manifesting the fruits of the flesh instead of the fruits of the spirit.
Whereas if a person is truly sanctified in Christ, they don't have the worries of the world to choke out their fruitfulness (as in the parable of the sower). They are totally without selfish ambition as they serve others, to speak wholesome words of truth, to build-up the body of Christ in love (1 Corinthians 8:1, Ephesians 4:15-16).
Whereas we do see a type of so-called Christian who actually has pride, envy, wrath etc, they are short-tempered and cruel to others, condescending and self-centred, hypocritical etc. Those ones are actually not sanctified, they are hating, and St. John notes that the one who hates his brother is a murderer and that no murderer has eternal life in him.
