Strawman. Planets are dead rocks and unable to know or understand anything.
However, it is only a
believing mind that is capable of possessing and understanding the Word of God.
Boy you're telling me. You ever try talking to one? But God can make it happen. It's in the Bible.
Luke 19:39-40
And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Luke 19:40
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
A believing mind can believe the earth is flat.
But we Can Understand the Word of God Only by the
Spirit of God. Consider the following: But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him—” these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
Take for example the disciples, they knew and believed Jesus and were still confused. Jesus had just told them that He was going away and that His closest friends would betray Him.
WHAT?
Like we do they had a lot of questions. Where was He going? Why couldn’t they come? Would Jesus show them the Father?
For three years Jesus had been with His disciples. He’d been their teacher, their comfort and their guide. They had watched heal the sick, raise the dead, walk on water, and feed the five thousand. And yet how shaky was their faith! How little they knew! Even unbelievers know of a god, but not the
power of God or His word.
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Jesus knew the decuples their fears and their lack of faith. He had anticipated it and had prepared the perfect remedy, the really good part.
“I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:16-18
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.” John 16:12-14
The Holy Spirit was Jesus’ answer to the disciples’ lack of faith and misunderstanding of the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit, the mighty third person of the Godhead, would be their helper and teacher. He would stay with them and teach them all the truths they had not been able to comprehend while Jesus Himself was with them.
The Holy Spirit would pick up where Jesus left off. He would illuminate their minds and give them understanding of the Scriptures so they could share with others.