(June 9, 2016 at 6:27 pm)madog Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 5:16 pm)Godschild Wrote: 1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person (this would be you) 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.
1 Cor. 1:18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
2 Cor. 3:14 But their minds were hardened. To this day when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it lifted.
2 Cor. 4:3-4 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel.....
James 1:5-8
Mark 4: 11-12 And Jesus said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that they may indeed but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand....
John 8:43 Jesus says, "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you can not bear to hear my word.
GC
You stated ... You better get to answering, God is real.
I pointed out ... I am trying to answer, God is not real
you stated ... Without being a Christian you can't get to the point
and continued ... I am and as the Bible says I have an understand far above your's.
So I asked ... If you can show me where in the bible it states you have an understanding far above mine I will recant.
So how does the examples you have posted show the bible states only a Christian can show the bible is not real?
I answered your previous question, you asked to see where the Bible says a Christian has a higher discernment of the Bible than you, I provided the verses. Seems you can't even understand the plain and simple of scripture, thus proving my discernment of scripture is higher than yours. I would explain why but you wouldn't understand, it's more involved than the verses I posted for you. Your tactic of deflection will not work here.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.