The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
Psalm 14:1-5
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
Psalm 14:1-5
The New King James Version. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1982.
In our day, the predominate American worldview is: synaptic firings and neurological road paths are verity. Simply put, Truth originates in OUR own mind.
This observation can be made in the halls of elite colleges, federal court rulings, Hollywood films, newspaper headlines, major corporations' announcements and actions and talking-head media moguls. The most recent evidence is the transgender bathroom debacle. Our society holds fast to 'we can be whatever we want and think and feel, and that is real, so it is truth.' The money-makers, educators, and legislators have now determined that this will be the way we move forward in America.
Remove God, as Nietzsche suggested, and Society will become whole. Well, we are removing God and any vestige of Him, and we will reap the rewards of such foolishness. "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'." In our world, people are now making the heart confession an act of cultural expression. Chaos and competing individual expressions are rampant.
As Christians, we need not ever endorse such foolishness. Rather, we ought to persuade them to draw near to God while He might be found. People are far more than misguided electro-chemical impulses; they are image-bearers. As such, they cannot and will not find their own way. We must share with them the only way and pray that God would turn on the light to this truth, lest they meander straight to judgement. Let us make this our goal: Vocally and Truthfully sharing Jesus.
