Mankind has forgotten the truth, and this is why most of the world is declining morally. The Holy Spirit lives on this planet, but the Bible teaches that mankind has an eternal choice to accept or reject the truth! People have become selfish and have placed greed and money above right living, and the search for God. When people forget God, and suppress His existence, humankind enters an existential crisis and looses it’s identity. Moral decline happened in the times of Noah, and God sent a worldwide flood to destroy mankind. Apart from God, human beings have no real goodness or righteousness in themselves.
When people try to be good apart from belief in God, the source of all goodness they are relying on their own fallen human natures to be in right standing in God’s sight. Apart from the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind has no forgiveness. When religion is suppressed mankind becomes their own god, and becomes an idolatrous people. Idolatry is not just worshiping idols, but it is choosing to worship yourself as God.
This is the sin of pride that Lucifer committed before he became the devil. Human beings are not God, but they are acting like they are gods, which has brought the wrath of the real God to this world, like never before. To be saved from the wrath of God, you must be humble and merciful and believe in the truth, but when you become greedy and selfish, you perpetuate the judgment the world is experiencing right now for turning from God and rejecting the truth.
Pontius Pilate wanted to know if Jesus Christ was telling him the truth, and said to Jesus, (John 18:38) 38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
In the bible Jesus says He is the truth, (John 14:6). When the world rejects the claims of Jesus Christ they are left alone, given over to their sins, which is God’s judgment or wrath upon them. This is Mike.
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