Amen
“Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live”
Deuteronomy 30:11-19 NIV
as far back as cain the firstborn man on earth there’s absolutely nothing to say cain didint hear and understand what god told him
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you,
but you must rule over it.””
Genesis 4:6-7 NIV
Cain choosing his own evil idea instead has nothing to do with him not being able to hear and grasp what god told him .
at his is a perfect example of why we don’t want to try to invent entire doctrines from sentences in Paul’s letters like this one
“But 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.”
1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV
you can see how it just goes haywire if we do that we shouldn’t take that sentance and then try to use it to disprove obvious facts that are in front of us such as all men are capable of hearing god or understanding words because he said them
….unless he intentionally makes them blind and dead to his word and unable to hear like he did isreal after their breaking of his covenant
“And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
Isaiah 6:9-12 KJV
air co fuses many because Jesus talks to them and says things about them not being able to hear and come to him unless he enables them but he’s talking to the rebellious house of Israel that he made blind and deaf after they broke his covenant worshipping the many many false gods of thier history
But that’s part of Israel’s covenant curse it had nothing to do with anyone else gentiles never had and broke his covenant nor were they made deaf and blind to his word . In general mankind has never been unable to respond to god we just choose the evil sometimes rather than the good all the time
