The age old excuse between children in the home and on the playground (also the not-so-young people that use this excuse all the time as well, without the childish strain in their voices) Everyone was doing it!
Donna Otto (the founder of Homemakers By Choice) says that she told her daughter the motto "Wrong is always wrong, no matter how many people are doing it, and right is always right no matter how few people are doing it."
In Romans 3:3-4 Paul explains that God will always hold the truth, speak the truth even if everyone contradicts God. God is true and all that contradict Him are liars. God is by definition of His eternal qualities and divine nature truth. He cannot be wrong; He cannot bear false witness.
A statement made by author, Dallas Willard, reminded me that this quality in God's character, and thus all that He says He is profoundly falls back on this primary principle, that it is true, because God is true. This remains true, even if we deny it.
But we, humanity, we like to deny, deny, deny. We have different beliefs and different thoughts about what eternity really is, what it will be like, who will be there (end up there) and how they got to be there. Even in "Christianity" there are those churches (which are really social groups that follow Christ as their common uniting factor) that use the Bible, rather than believing, trusting and obeying it. They will read from it, speak from certain parts, and will conveniently navigate around passages that might bring conviction or contradiction. Amongst other peoples of the world, who are held accountable by the Creator Himself, (Romans 1:19-21 For what can be mknown about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, nhave been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,7 in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they obecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened).
God leaves humans responsible to choose Him or to reject Him (a lack of choice of God is the reject of God, for His radically amazing person is not something that can be ignored or occasional). Pantheist, Agnostic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, Christian, Atheist ECT! Every single human must choose for themselves if they believe or not that what the God of the Bible, Yahweh, Jehovah Jireh, Jesus Christ, The Word, Holy Spirit, says in the Bible is true for the world. It's a yes or no.
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