1 Corinthians 2:13-16
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Knowing the bankruptcy of our wisdom apart from God, we should be speaking what He says as written in the Scriptures and with verity testified to by His Spirit living in us. We use the context of the Bible to interpret itself, using it as the rule to understand the wisdom God put there for us. Our fallen natural man of flesh refuses to accept what it cannot grasp, seeing a seemingly foolish set of stories and sayings. These can only be comprehended by spiritual means from God’s own mind. Ah, but those of us who are His have that mind opened to ours for spiritual understanding. We have the mind of Christ Himself!
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