About 1 Corinthians 2:14, noting I do not speak for atheists, but seek to explain the verse as a lay person, firstly, note that Corinth, at the time Paul wrote the letter (circa 50 AD), was like Athens, a Greek city where the population loved philosophical arguments and sought to embrace the form of their rhetorical traditions as much as substance.
The NIV publishes the words as “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.”
That is foolishness in reference to those who don’t believe, not an argument at all. Taking the insult away, that people cannot understand something, there is a truth to the statement that people do not understand the scripture. Scripture also notes that devils and demons believe in God, and shudder. Scripture refers to the Devil knowing prophecy of what Jesus would do, and yet had him crucified aiming for a win, and so losing utterly. And if someone does not believe Jesus died and rose on the third day in accordance with scriptures, then they are unlikely to value the insult, or accept the simple truth.
There is nothing to be gained by studying the Devil. One does not fight the Devil, but that they might dance to its tune. But studying the Bible is worthwhile. But studying the bible seems utterly foolish to those who do not accept Jesus as Lord.
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