So you think every atheist doesn't understand the message that Christ died on the Cross to save the world?
Of course they don't!
How can you understand something without believing it to be true!
Mat_13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
Mat 13:23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word
and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
You think they hear and understand? Do you think there can be belief without understanding something? Blind faith?
If atheists understood (Spiritual truth) within the gospel message why would they choose not to believe what they believe to be true!
That is oxymoronic.
How hard do you think that message is to understand?
1Co 2:4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Co 2:5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Very difficult for some. Like these guys who mocked:
Act_17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
Also these guys:
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
Rom 11:8 as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”
And these:
1Co 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
And these especially:
Mat 11:25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
It's their refusal to believe that leaves them where they are not their inability to understand what is being said.
Proof? Your say so does not cut it!
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.
BTW, what made you better than them in that you chose to believe?
Why did you not refuse? What made you not mock?
Grace ensures the message is made perspicuous so they can know what they are rejecting.
Proof?
perspicuous:
clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.
"it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals"
Your words contradict scripture as shown below:
1Co 2:4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Co 2:5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Besides, there's a whole lot to believe before God can present the Gospel.
Oh wow!
Rom 3:10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
Rom 3:11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Rom 3:12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Rom 3:13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
Rom 3:14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
Rom 3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Rom 3:16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
Rom 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
Rom 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Let me ask you this:
Do you believe that God draws and teaches everybody equally and that He fails in His drawing and teaching in the majority of times?
Joh 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Joh 6:45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me
Who is the everyone spoken about in verse 45 above?
