nor do they understand

Brother over tonight, and in discussing the success of something despite its many faults, used the term "inexplicable grace of God" to explain it (not defend it). I'd bet that many believers or otherwise have issues with the concept that some things can be explained no other way. With a shoulder shrug and shaking head, they exclaim it as if embarrassed. And why is that?

Nature of rationalism and humanism and other evil isms in opposition to the truth take as a fundamental premise that they must be able to comprehend something or else that some thing is either false or unworthy. They sit atop some high horse of privilege as if they had earned some ultimate right to know or understand all things. And thus the inexplicable grace of God is not acceptable.

It is always acceptable, and it is behind all things, even the things we believe we understand or were given grace to understand. You might be atop the highest horse possible, but even with head back as far as it goes you wouldn't be able to see how much higher God is than you. I suppose it is not so much that they feel they have earned some right atop that horse that these people hate. It is that they are reminded again of their place, their very secondary place.