Illumination
Natural Man's Blindness
Bibliology · 6 verses
The unregenerate person, lacking spiritual life, cannot discern the things of God revealed in Scripture. This blindness is not intellectual but spiritual, rooted in the noetic effects of sin that darken the understanding and harden the heart. Only regeneration and the Spirit's illumination can remove the veil and enable true comprehension of divine truth.
Scripture References
“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.”
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”
“Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.”
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”