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Bible Questions Answered:
“I
can't understand today, why people don't know the Lord, and why they
aren't calling on him...?...”
Anna/
Ashburn, Virginia U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Our world is lying in spiritual blindness , spiritual
darkness.
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to
believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal
The
Word:
Psalm
82:5 KJV
They
know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness..."
Matthew
15:13,14 KJV
13
But He answered and said, Every plant, which My Heavenly Father hath
not planted, shall be rooted up.
14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind
lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew
23:26 KJV
Thou
blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and
platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
John
1: 4, 5 KJV
4
In Him was Life; and The Life was The Light Of Men.
5
And The Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not.
John
12:39,40 KJV
39
Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again,
40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and
be converted, and I should heal them.
John
14:16-20 KJV
16
And I will pray The Father, and He shall give you another Comforter,
that He may abide with you for ever;
17
Even The Spirit Of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.
18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19
Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me:
because I live, ye shall live also.
20
At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I
in you.
Romans
1:28-32 NLT
28
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them
to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be
done.
29
Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed,
hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and
gossip.
30
They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.
They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.
31
They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and
have no mercy.
32
They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things
deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage
others to do them, too.
Romans
11:8 KJV
(According
as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes
that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto
this day.
I
Corinthians 1:18,19 KJV
18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is The Power Of God.
19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
I
Corinthians 2:14 NLT
But
people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s
Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it,
for only those who are spiritual can understand what The Spirit
means.
II
Corinthians 4:3,4 KJV
3
But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4
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.
Ephesians
4:17-20 KJV
17
This I say therefore, and testify in The Lord, that ye henceforth
walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18
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:
19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20
But ye have not so learned Christ;
II
Thessalonians 2:8-12 KJV
8
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom The Lord shall consume
with The Spirit Of His Mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness
of His coming:
9
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders,
10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of The Truth, that they might be
saved.
11
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:
12
That they all might be damned who believed not The Truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
II
Peter 3:3,4 NLT
3
Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers
will come, mocking The Truth and following their own desires.
4
They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming
again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has
remained the same since the world was first created.”
I
John 2:9-11 KJV
9
He that saith he is in The Light, and hateth his brother, is in
darkness even until now.
10
He that loveth his brother abideth in The Light, and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him.
11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness
hath blinded his eyes.
Prayer:
Psalm
146:8 KJV
The
Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: The Lord raiseth them that are
bowed down: The Lord loveth the righteous:
II
Corinthians 4:6 NLT
For
God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made
this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that
is seen in the face of Jesus Christ
