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Romans comes after Acts . Romans is settled doctrines . Acts is a transitional book with 28 chapters with 29 different conversion accounts in it . Some folks stop at chapter 2 and call that the plan of salvation. And I'm the silly one ?

What your doing is reading the information you have after the book of Acts ,back into the book of Acts . Common mistake. Silly but true .

I just look at it in that we as believers can understand because we have been given the spirit . But if we are being ' fleshy ' we won't understand. Many a baby Christian even after 50 years .

It just says ( well apart from the Niv ) That a natural man cannot understand ' the things ' what things ? the things of the Spirit . What things of the Spirit ? The Gospel ? , as the calvinst will tell us and insist . Cannot understand the Gospel . Boy there's an excuse for the Atheist lol . No...

Yes they are UNABLE. 1¶And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. ' Cannot speak ' CANNOT ! neither yet now...

Mature believers understand the things of the spirit . Notice it says ' the things ' ..well the context is the things of a deeper understanding. Not ALL things, including the Gospel. The wisdom that Paul wants to impart to those still on milk but are unable at the moment .

Yes he can't speak unto them as mature. But as to carnal ( natural) Not without the spirit. But because of carnality and being seduced by man's wisdom they cannot understand ' the things ' Paul can speak amoung the mature / perfect/ spiritual. Why would Paul need to mention " by the way a...

Kjv 15But he that is spiritual ( Mature ) judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 'Mature ' is the focus .Paul can speak the wisdom to more ' mature ' ( spiritual/ perfect). verse 6 6¶Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect( Mature / Spiritual : yet not the wisdom...

It gets even worse in chapter 3 . ( In the Niv ) 1Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready...

Kjv 14But 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. 15But he that is SPIRITUAL judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. Now read verse 6 .

I can see why you would think what you think with the Niv ( and this is the problem. ) 14The 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...

Is this the Niv again?

Do you notice how it flows on into chapter 3 ? 1¶And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal , even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are are...

Seems odd that the Holy Spirit is convicting people who are dead ?

Without the spirit lol

I would say that I've never been a Calvinist but boy did i have a whole load of calvinistic thinking that I'd picked up accidently.

Compare that verse in other translations 😉 I'd avoid the Niv at all costs .

Yes He hardened Pharaoh s already self hardened heart further . ( That was that incident) who else are you referring to ? And yes he gives people over in a particular sin mentioned in Romans. No one is born hardened and blind however . Thats Calvinism.

Yes satan is blinding folks. Seems silly to blind eyes that are already born blind if indeed they are born blind ?

Faith comes by hearing ..The words bring life . It ( The Gospel ) is the power of God unto salvation . Heb 4.12 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a...