But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.-- Message Bible.
This is why the Psalmist states there are people who are bereft of any hope of wisdom, for claiming to be wise, many are renown for reinforcing the evidence of their dearth of the most sort after attribute that signals that the beginning of knowledge has been attained. For the beginning of wisdom, we are told in the book of Proverbs, is this: get wisdom.
Anybody who does not recognize that being born to die is a futile existence, lacks hope; suffers an acute insufficiency of reasoning ability; may as well not have been born at all.
As for people who assert that God is dead, maybe they might like to join Nietzsche: an “influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values.” But if not, rolling your eyes is just as good as being lost for eternity, I suppose. After all, being dead is not just a temporary existence, whichever way one looks at it. Whereas being on Earth is temporary.
There Is A Relationship That Extends Beyond The Grave; Creation Bears Witness
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