"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."
Paul speaks of the "natural man," meaning the spiritually unregenerate man, the man dead in sin and trespassess. This is the state in which we are all born. It takes a gracious act of the Spirit of God by which he breathes new life into a spiritual corpse to bring a man into life and renewed understanding. But until that happens, such a man rejects what he does not understand--he thinks it is foolishness, stupidity, irrationality, "anti-science." But he does so lacking understanding. It is as if an ant rejected the reality of the Empire State Building because she couldn't grasp the concept.
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