Featured Limited Spiritual Ability of the Fallen

No, Paul was comparing the babes in Christ to be still acting as if not saved!

 

the lost receive nothing of God, as those things are spiritually discerned!

 

Jesus was ONLY referring to the Pharisees there, not commenting on those to get saved!

 

All see through creation itself that God is powerful and a Creator, but cannot know any spiritual truth!

 

We just want to delete your misunderstanding of what paul meant!

 

Acts 8:26-39 (A story illustrating Biblical truth)

Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.”

So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. The place in the Scripture which he read was this:

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
In His humiliation His justice was taken away,
And who will declare His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth.”

So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here iswater. What hinders me from being baptized?”

Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.”

And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.​

The verse that states:
So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?”
illustrates the truth found in
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. - [1Corinthians 2:14 NIV]

There are other truths illustrated in the story, like [1 Corinthians 2:12-13] and [Romans 10:14] and [Romans 8:28] and [Ephesians 2:8-9], to name a few.

 

Where the Psalms 14:2 says, "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God." Is why Romans 3:11 says, "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God."
Matthew 23:13, "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." The seeking and understanding God is being prevented.
1 Peter 1:11, ". . . Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. . . ." These are those who were brought past not seeking and not understanding God and the things of God. And what of us who now know God through Christ?

 

... and not understanding (just like scripture said natural man can't in 1 Corinthians 2:14).

 

... proving that the Eunich could not "believe" without external help from God (the GIFT of Ephesians 2:8-9) , thus proving the Spiritual Inability as defined in the Doctrines of Grace.