In response to Lou Jenson’s May 1 letter to the editor.
Dark the threads drawn through the fabric of your opinions.
Who is this that darkens counsel by
words without knowledge?
(Job 38:2).
For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness
and [wrong-doing] of men who by their
sacrilegiousness] suppress the truth. Ever
since the creation of the world his invisible
nature, namely, his eternal power and deity,
has been clearly perceived in the things
that have been made. Although they knew
God they did not honor him as God or give
thanks to him, but they became futile in
their thinking and their senseless minds were
darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became
deficient in judgment].
(Romans 1:18-22)
Thetruth about God, like a great spring, has been pressed down. Now the spring threatens to leap up and demolish the opinions and lifestyle of those who would repress it. So a person strains, all the more, to hold it down . . . to suppress truth. They do not like the truth about God. Theydo not like the God to which the truth leads them.
God is sovereign, but we do not want to acknowledge there is One who rightly exercises rule over us. God is all knowing, but we do not like a God who sees into the dark recesses of our hearts and knows us intimately. God is holy, but we are unrighteous, and we like our unrighteousness. Consequently we do not wish to know a God who would press moral claims upon us. To know God would require change.
Nearly everything that can be known about God is repugnant to the natural man in one way or another. So he represses the evidence that would lead him in the direction of a true knowledge of God.
For the time is coming when [people]
will not tolerate sound and wholesome
instruction, but, having ears itching [for
something pleasing and gratifying], they
will gather to themselves one teacher after
another, chosen to satisfy their own liking
and to foster the errors they hold, and will
turn aside from hearing the truth and
wander off into myths and man-made
fictions.
(2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Garry Gamble
Grand Marais
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