Christians are Jewish spiritually, page-307

Read again your post. what is Peter saying? "Anybody who questions us is a ridiculer and is to be dismissed."

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God did give us a brain and there are many brilliant individuals including scientists who are called to Christ. People like Francis Collins head the of the Genome Project and many more prominent scientist now and throughout history but Peter is saying quite clearly that it is the heart that is in question,

ridiculers will come with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desire

It is the fallen nature of man to rebel against God man chases his desires not those of God they are alien to him.

Romans 3:10
As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;

The Apostle Peter is exposing the heart of the matter that drives the mind.

Jeremiah 17
9"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? 10"I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.…

But ultimately those who place their trust in their intellectual or physical might and turn their ways from God will be left with an emphatic lonely and barren destiny.

Jeremiah 17
5Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns awayfrom the LORD. 6"For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant

Man seeks his desires he proceeds accordingly to his nature,


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