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I submit that is because they received the Torah and Tanach with their sensory perception and minds through diligent albeit earthy efforts - instead of hearing God spiritually. In the language of the soul, their ruach is centered on their nephesh and not on their neshama

All of their "earthly efforts" to understand God's Word would come to nought. That's exactly why the most learned of men can dismiss it as fairy tales of some halfwitted wandering tribe. Simon Magus sought to buy the HS. You can't just become "spiritual" because you desire to. And of course, if God wants you to receive His Spirit and be elect, you aren't able to "resist" the actual Spirit either.

I agreed with you all the way up to the underlined part. A person can hear Christ spiritually and not believe, he can reject Christ, he can say "no."

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. - John 12:47-48