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Discernment  ~  verse references and preliminary notes

At some point in every human's life, the three most fundamental questions about life come into everyone's mind:

1. Where did I come from?
2. Why am I here?
3. What will become of me when I die?

Atheists answer these questions by insisting that:
1. All of life came into existence entirely by random chance.
2. There is no "purpose" in life.
3. When the human body dies, that is simply the end. There is nothing beyond.

Within every human spirit, however, there is an intuitive understanding that there simply has to be a much better, more sensible explanation. (cf. Romans 1:19)


MAT-16:03 [you] hypocrites. You can discern the face of the sky, but can you not [discern] the signs of the times? 
LUK-12:56 [You] hypocrites. You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time? 
1CO-02:14 Natural man does not comprehend+ the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to them. Neither can they know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. 
1CO-11:29 Those] who eat and drink unworthily, eat and drink judgment+ unto themselves [for] not discerning the Lord's body. 
1CO-12:10 ... To another, discerning of spirits. To another, [different+] kinds of tongues. To another, the interpretation of tongues. 
1CO-14:29 Allow two or three prophets to speak and the others discern+. 
HEB-04:12 The Word of God [is] quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart+ of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow. [It is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 
HEB-05:14 ... those] who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 

GEN-27:23 ... he did not discerned him, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. 
GEN-31:32 ... before our brothers discern you what [is] yours with me, and take [it] to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 
GEN-38:25 ... Discern, I pray you, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 
2SA-14:17 ... as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord your God will be with you. 
2SA-19:35 ... [I] can I discern between good and evil? ... 
1KI-03:09 Give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad ...
1KI-03:11 God said to him, Because you have asked ... for yourself understanding to discern judgment; 
1KI-20:41 ... the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets. 
EZR-03:13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people ...
JOB-04:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before my eyes ... 
JOB-06:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? 
PRO-07:07 beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 
ECC-08:05 ... a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment. 
EZE-44:23 ... [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 
JON-04:11 [many] cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle? 
MAL-03:18 ... discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.