God's message beginning to end is manifest as perfect when taken in context and understood that way.
Scripture, God's love letter to the world, proves itself in such ways.
When God tells us the natural carnal mind of people who are first born separated from God being in this mortal coil, and destined to be dead to righteousness due to our sinful nature, are not able to understand the voice of the Holy Spirit, if we believe in God do we believe that what he told us?
If God tells us that inability to understand is not abated, changed, so that we can understand God's message unless or until his Spirit enters into us? So that we are then able to understand those things of the Spirit because they are Spiritually discerned, do we believe God's words if we believe in God?
Or do we believe we who are spiritually dead and separated from God due to our fallen human nature let that fallen ego centric nature lead us to believe we can freely choose to change that birth defect?
Given the fate of the fallen, if we believe in that, would we freely choose to reject being saved from that? When all we'd have to do is say, ''I believe in Jesus?''
Could that fallen carnal dead in our sins [Ephesians 2] choice made by that carnal egocentric narcissistic mind wanting to avoid punishment for the damned save us? Would that scroll our name into the Book of Eternal Life 📖 that God wrote
before God created the 🌎 world?
The carnal natural mind thinks itself god. And were born in that cerebral sphere first.
We choose everyday for our life.
Romans 8:7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Now we think we can choose and overcome what God said of our natural mind being unable to comprehend his voice?
We believe the god of our ego when it leads us to believe we can overcome God's creation by our choice?
1 Corinthians 2:13And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.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.
James 3
Wisdom from Above 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Jude 1
Judgment on False Teachers 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved[c] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Believe God's words. Not the natural man who insists thst mind that is by nature is fallen and corrupt can in that condition understand holy language from God.
God says it cannot. God is not a man with a fallen human nature that he would lie.
John 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.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and
I know them, and they follow me.