"The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."
The unbeliever rejects the truth of God because he cannot understand it. He simply is not able to wrap his mind around spiritual truth because he lacks the spiritual discernment that comes with believing. I think about the different theological arguments for the existence of God, and I think about all the work that apologists do to try to convince people of the truth of spiritual things. These arguments are often helpful and reasonable, and they serve their place. But they will not enlighten the unbeliever. Only the Spirit can do that. I suppose that the Spirit can use the arguments, but it is the Spirit that does the work.
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