I think I lose sight of that sometimes...While we post scripture that is so simple and clear to us, they just don't get it...
And all I really have to do is remember back before I was saved...God was telling me to open the book and I did...And nothing made a lick of sense to me...
And if we don't get the milk he provides for us, he is certainly not going to give us any meat...Apparently if you don't get or refuse the milk, he gives you some blood...
I wonder, does the father of lies immediately rush to implant the 'reasoning' that they don't see a perfect life after that claim of being born again. So they reject the entire truth that today is the day, this is the hour they are being called to believe in The Savior, Whom God has sent, so to receive the Holy Spirit seal within our human spirit which was before operating by the inveigling of the spirit of death?
I wonder, is that negation 'reasoning' planted in the pride cubbyhole of their soul, so it 'feels' personal, as if a super gotcha has been discover by that pride power?
I wonder, is that why such folks reject the Truth that there is coming a day when GOD will transform and snatch away from this four dimensional realm the Body of Christ Believers, by placing the sinless spirit of the born agains into a glorified body and behavior mechanism that is also sinless and not drawn to prideful sin like the old flesh nature?
2 Thess 2:3 has Paul telling us that the antichrist cannot be revealed until after the Body of Christ Believers are departed from the 4 dimensional realm. The sticking word for so many is 'apostasia', The Apostasia.
The etymology of the word is the Greek 'apos' (apart or away from) and the verb 'histemi' (to stand). This yields in fundamental form (with a definite article preceding apostasia) 'The To stand away from', translated simply with The Departure in the first few English Translation Bibles. Even Jerome translated 'The Apostasia' with the Latin word for depart and the definite article in Latin yielding The Departure.
This is an event of what Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 as a transformation in the twinkling of an eye, for the still alive when Jesus comes to gather us to Himself and return to the Father's House where He, Jesus, has been preparing lodging places for us (John 14) during the seven years of Tribulation upon the Earthdwellers and ISRAEL.
Paul wrote that the corruptible (our 4D flesh) must put on incorruptible, faintly echoing what Jesus told His disciples after His resurrection, when He suddenly appeared in the locked and shuttered Upper Room to correct Thomas's doubting.
But why a departure to remove the restrainer? ... These are aspects of the meat an unregenerate mind cannot grasp or even ask. These are details of our status as born agains that the infant in Christ will not even ask until some growth in the spirit has happened.
Thus, marvel not when you see the mocking and derision coming from unregenerate spirits, they have a spirit manipulating the mind of their soul which hates God and them and the Body of Christ which is to be departed before the all signs and lying wonders powers of satan can be released.
During the Age of the Church (Body of Christ Believers, not a specific org or denomination) satan has focused his hate attacks upon the Believers, knowing they are escaped his final destination. Once the Body of Christ Believers are 'apostasiaed' from the 4D realm, satan will again focus his powers to deceive upon Israel, for 3 and 1/2 years anyway.