Let me repeat, the claim that to stick with the least that is being said might "shrink" the scope is false.
In their Natural, unregenerate sate, is not in dispute.
1 Cor. 2:14 does NOT say the natural person cannot understand any of the things of the Spirit God. That is an expansion.
Another expansion is the meaning of "opening the heart." All it means, i.e. the least it means, is to explain something in a way that is understandable to the person.
Ask yourself why Paul speaks to "men of flesh" using "spiritual milk?" 1 Cor. 3:1.
By using spiritual milk he knew he might win some! Therefore the lost can understand spiritual milk but not spiritual solid food, because a person must have learned from their indwelt spirit sufficiently to understand spiritual solid food (meat). 1 Cor. 3:1-3.
And then you rewrite James 2:5 claiming it does not mean God chooses individuals rich in faith, but only honors those rich in faith.
Nuff said...
