Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
Romans 1:28-31
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chron.7:14
Although Paul penned Romans almost two millennia ago, and Isaiah's writings are more than 2700 years ago, technologies have changed, but the "problem" is the same. Romans 1:28-31 reads just like it were written today, the manifestations of a fallen humanity everywhere. Idols and wickedness abound, and everywhere we look is the evidence of a puffed up, deceived world, the wreckage of humanity litters the landscape, and battles rage on the earth and in the heavenlies.
The answer?
God provided it-rather Him, even before Adam was shaped, long before the fall of men...JESUS.
Only through Him and with Him alone, only in humility and repentance, casting down vain imaginations and taking empty thoughts captive ... His path is narrow, His yoke easy, His way is the only way.
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