Posted on 07/20/2010 10:08:59 AM PDT by pastorbillrandles
The psychology of godlessness Posted on July 20, 2010 by billrandles
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness…” (Romans 1:18)
The Gospel doesn’t begin with man and his need for salvation, it begins with God, His Glory and His wrath against sin.
The apostle tells us that the wrath of God; that is His ceaseless, active and fierce opposition to everything that is wrong, evil, perverse or false, is being revealed from heaven against man every single day.
The way God’s wrath is daily being revealed is in the steady degeneration of society, the “giving over”of society to ever grosser and more degrading forms of sin.The moral and social self-destruction that we are seeing today is an ominous manifestation of the Wrath of God. Abortion, homosexuality, the culture of death, and Nihilism are what God has given our generation over to, by allowing the natural restraints to these, to be removed.
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Ungodliness refers to those who have no reverence for God whatsoever. ...
Romans 1:18-31 is a divine analysis of the psychology of the godless. It outlines the way the Divine Wrath works its way out in the degeneration of ungodly societies.This is an amazingly relevant chapter to our modern situation.
The ungodly are not ignorant of God. Wrath is being revealed against them because they suppress truth that they do know, refusing to accept their accountability to God.This is what makes the ungodly culpable.
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.Romans 1:20
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, …(Romans 1:28)
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To the ungodly, man created god and it was good (at least for a time) and then sin descended and man`s god was a pitiable creature full of lust and want, envy, wrath and greed. Then god wasn`t quite so good as expected, and so man decided to kill his god and sent forth the bright atheists pointing to water from which all life emerged and a rainbow appeared from all the gay parades and low and behold... god was dead.
I don't know of anyone, believer or non, that claims to have a perfect moral code. I don't know of anyone who claims human beings aren't flawed.
After all, we're very imperfect primates with frontal lobes that are too small and adrenal glands that are too big. One would expect as much.
You just have to do the best you can.
nice!
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