Thank you for the clarification, and I sincerely apologize for my misunderstanding and my hurtful words.
It seems the Word of God is only hard to understand when it doesn't line up with what we already believe.
"...batter at Genesis with the sword of "science" but then sheathe that sword when it comes to the "virgin birth" or "transubstantiation"..."
That's a painfully well made point.
I think that "faith cometh by hearing" applies to everyone.What we hear the most,we trust the most.When I really started to question the things I believed (and why I believed them) I soon ran into..."The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" So we probably all believe some things to some degree that we've never questioned.Indeed some 'heartfelt' beliefs may even negate us ever questioning them,so ingrained they may be.
Difficult for a mind to be transformed when so much of the thinking is dictated by what is in the depths of the heart...which cannot be fully known.It's enough to make one throw their hands in the air and simply cry to God "oh wretched man that I am"
When I did that (not that I've finished doing it mind you)this is what (I believe)God places in my heart..."...every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God"
Grasping that will bring about a massive change of heart and you can know it and trust it because it is something God has placed there according to His own authority.That is what will begin to trully transform the mind in spite of our own efforts to do it.In a rude sense it's like God dropping a nuclear bomb into your heart that will eventually clear out any and all cobwebs.
Sacred cows notwithstanding.