Romans 8:6 : For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. The mind of the flesh, as the connection shows, is the mind devoted to the flesh. The minding the flesh is death. To be devoted to the things of the flesh is death. Such a state not only tends to death, it is death itself. The one who thus lives is dead to God. For the mind to be devoted --to the things of the spirit--to the needs of the spirit is life and peace. It is life from spiritual death and peace with God and conscience. The phrases, "mind of the flesh" and "mind of the spirit," do not mean that a person has two distinct minds--that is, that the flesh has a mind and the spirit has a mind. If so, the flesh would always be dead to God, for the mind of the flesh is death; and the spirit would always be alive to God, whether in righteousness or sin, for the mind of the spirit is life. In that case the spirit would never need conversion, and the flesh could not be converted.