Romans 1: 18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
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I believe that the Bible is timeless, what you read is obviously historical and directly relating to being in the moment when it was written. I also believe that it connects with its readers today. So, as I was reading the above passage last night all I could think about was today’s modern scientific world.
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Humans have been living in a world where the design and designer are really beyond all comprehension yet, through his grace we are allowed to get glimpses “behind the curtain” to see how things work and why. Still, and understandably I guess, many people refuse to acknowledge their place in the nebulas soup and have: V23”exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”
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It’s a bit encouraging to see that perhaps Paul was dealing with these yahoos just as Christians are dealing with them today. V22 seems to be a direct call to those who seeking to explain away the designer in favor of our little species taking center stage.
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This of course is easy for me to say because I do have faith to fall back on. Still as I’m trying to move my faith forward it seems more and more difficult for me to figure out how people can consider the Bible to be a fake. Even the Gospel of Judas, no matter what you might think of it, screams that this person called Jesus walked the earth and was a real man.
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In this book the followers of JC are telling their brethren to straighten up and fly right and look at the obviousness of Gods creation over their own fabrications of what they think is right.
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Has anyone noticed the blog dragging arse lately? The spacing thing is an issue, today I couldn’t post a picture and it seems to be taking a really long time to do much of anything.
I think it knows we were talking about it. “Good morning, Dave.”
Yeah, blogger's making me want to continue with our move idea.
I think you made some good points, Mullins. I also think this not only speaks to the realm of science, but also to the general unbelievers of humanity.
The part that stands out to me is in verse 20 where it states "men are without excuse".
Romans is well known for speaking to Gentiles about spirituality. Paul brings up the fact and keeps the theme that the Jews were given the Law of Moses and the Gentiles (Romans) were given the Law of Nature.
In other words, God is evident in nature and through our understanding of natural processes (e.g. homosexuality doesn't produce offspring/spreads disease, etc.) we can understand morality.
The beginning of vs 20 speaks to this "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made".
I think most of the time, God just says, "Use common sense, people!"
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