But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
1 Corinthians 2:14
There have always been skeptics who say that believing the Bible is for uneducated people (implying that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is anti-intellectual). This is contrary to truth. Understanding the Bible demands the use of the mind, but when the mind is diseased by sin it is clouded and confused.
The Bible teaches that sin affects the mind. A person may be intellectually brilliant, but spiritually ignorant. An intellectual mind can be turned into a first-class mind when Christ penetrates the very heart of a person—his most inner thoughts. We must never give up praying for others.
