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Thinking some more on the Romans 1 verses, it seems like God uses simple, easily understood things to help us grasp more complex spiritual truths. Perhaps, he is even pleased when we meditate on things seemingly simple and roll them around and around in our mind, letting their meaning unfold layer upon layer.

It's like Michael Behe, the scientist, looking at the "simplest cells only to discover flagellum and all these complex machines; Leading him to conclude they are 'irreducibly complex'. As dear bb concluded her essay post: All I know is that the more I know, the more I realize how much I don't know;

Thank you oh so very much for your kind words of encouragement, dear brother in Christ! And thank you for your wonderful insights to the glorious passage from Romans 1!

God gave man the ability to look around himself and reasonably conclude some basic things about creation and a creator. But man, in his vanity, elevates this reasoning ability to Godlike status, thinking he can know all that is known. In doing so, he becomes a fool.
Socrates reached the same conclusion as the writer of the Proverb "Be not wise in your own eyes"

So very true.

A very significant insight, dear brother in Christ! Thank you.

Truly, the very same words of God are spirit and life to the Christian who is on milk as well as the Christian who is on meat. And yet Truth is hidden in plain view from those who do not have “ears to hear.”

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. - John 6:63

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. – Matthew 22:29

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. - I Corinthians 1:24

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. – Matthew 13:13-16

Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. – John 8:43

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:27

To God be the glory!