“That’s when we need to rely upon the Holy Spirit to soften hearts....but it’s ALWAYS been that way. The most flawless apologetic, without the Holy Spirit, is just intellectual discussion.”
Amen! If I can talk someone into becoming a Christian, someone else can talk them out of it. It is the HEART that needs to change, not the mind. I’ve got family members who I’m pretty sure intellectually accept Jesus is God, but who refuse to stop controlling their own lives and give in to God. That makes them non-Christians.
Jesus said, “This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.”
Indeed. That 18” betyween the heart and the brain can be like a Light Year.
I have to say this, but there is no Biblical distinction between the heart and the mind.
https://biblicalcounselingcenter.org/heart-tells-all/