This is so true, next time we are tempted to give wicked men and women an excuse or a pass for their evil, we need to understand that God put the knowledge of right and wrong in every man.
God said "you shall have the knowledge of good and evil" when Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit.
God would not send someone to hell for something they were not aware of. He would not condemn someone to hell for "mistakes", without knowledge of what they are doing. We all know when we are being evil, we all know right from wrong. Those who pretend not to know have seared their own conscience to no longer pay attention to their promptings of conscience each time it wells up, they excuse it away or ignore it until there seems to be no longer the ability to discern.
Jeremiah 6:15 ""Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD."
Genesis 2:17 "17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
It must have been that Adam and Eve wanted to know what evil looked like, they had not seen it before, they wanted to know what God knew, even though He had protected them from it, that they might live in a world full of love and beauty. Their own will was indulged to be able to have their own way, they not only disobeyed God they devalued Him by taking what was forbidden.
1 Timothy 4:2 "by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,"
Romans 1:20 "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse."
Proverbs 10:3 "The LORD will not allow the righteous to hunger, But He will reject the craving of the wicked."
No comments:
Post a Comment