The Bible notes the root cause of this type of stupidity
Posted on: September 22, 2019 at 20:19:29 CT
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This isn't a complete list, & probably not even the best verses, but it's all I have at the moment:
Spiritual blindness
John 9:35-41 ESV
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” ...
Zephaniah 1:17 ESV
I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Psalm 146:8 ESV
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
Matthew 15:14 ESV
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
John 9:39 ESV
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
John 8:12 ESV
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
1 John 2:11 ESV
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
John 12:40 ESV
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
1 Peter 2:9 ESV
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Isaiah 42:16 ESV
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
Ephesians 5:8 ESV
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Psalm 82:5 ESV
They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Psalm 119:18 ESV
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
John 1:5 ESV
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Acts 26:18 ESV
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Deuteronomy 28:29 ESV
And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
Romans 8:7 ESV
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
2 Peter 3:3 ESV
Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Matthew 13:13 ESV
This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Jude 1:18 ESV
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
2 Corinthians 3:15 ESV
Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.
Isaiah 42:18 ESV
Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!
Isaiah 42:7 ESV
To open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Romans 11:8 ESV
As it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”