Instead of repenting before the word of God, they tried to revise God’s word. In doing so they became spiritually blind. That is why they could ignore the misery of the poor and needy around them. That is why they could ignore the universal truth that death comes to all men and that after death comes judgment. We must honor the word of God as the word of God. Otherwise, we become spiritually blind. The spiritually blind ignore the existence of heaven and hell.