Aside from you gratuitously giving your own inferences the weight of Holy Scripture, how does that moral calculation support "bypassed reasoning" in an "intelligent mind already ... prejudiced by sin?"
Scriptural interprets itself. Read the first verse of that passage.
A human's mind, not transformed by its renewing, does not even receive the deep things of The Spirit of The God, let alone understand them, for they are foolish to him.
What is your problem? Your question does not seem to frame the issue.