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To: Cronos; Mr Rogers
remember that our act of acceptance is "Rom 10:17 So Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ"

1Co 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

We, in our unsaved state cannot accept the things of God. They are folly. We are unable to spiritually discern them unless God grants us His wisdom.

7,971 posted on 02/01/2010 4:33:40 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD; Mr Rogers; Mad Dawg; wagglebee
remember that our act of acceptance is "Rom 10:17 So Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ"

1Co 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

We, in our unsaved state cannot accept the things of God. They are folly. We are unable to spiritually discern them unless God grants us His wisdom.

You are making the same error of sola scriptura, reading one solitary verse out of context. What does 1 Corinthians 2 say:

11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.


8,109 posted on 02/02/2010 10:11:34 PM PST by Cronos (Philipp2:12, 2Cor5:10, Rom2:6, Matt7:21, Matt22:14, Lu12:42-46,John15:1-10,Rev2:4-5,Rev22:19)
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