Paul described the difference when he wrote: “This, therefore, I say and bear witness to in the Lord, that you no longer go on walking just as the nations also walk in the unprofitableness of their minds, while they are in darkness mentally, and alienated from the life that belongs to God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the insensibility of their hearts.
وصف بولس هذا الاختلاف حين كتب :‏ « أقول هذا إذا وأشهد في الرب :‏ ألا تسيروا بعد كما يسير الأمم في بطل أذهانهم ،‏ وهم في ظلام عقلي ،‏ ومبعدون عن حياة الله ،‏ بسبب الجهل الذي فيهم ،‏ بسبب تصلب قلوبهم .‏