The Downward Spiral of Sin Romans 1:1832

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The Downward Spiral of Sin Romans 118-32
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• I read in a periodical the other day that the
  fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God
  Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not
  only more important, but infinitely more
  important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no
  importance except insofar as it is related to how
  He thinks of us.
• C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, p. 13

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The Downward Spiral of Sin

• Why is God so angry?
• God has clearly revealed Himself
• 119-20

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The heavens declare the glory of God the skies
proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day
they pour forth speech night after night they
display knowledge. There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes
out into all the earth, their words to the ends
of the world. Psalm 191-4
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My religious feeling takes the form of a
rapturous amazement of natures law which reveals
an intelligence of such superiority that compared
with it all the systems of thinking and acting of
human beings are an utterly insignificant
reflection.Albert Einstein
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But let us admit that no matter how small the
chance, it could happen, one molecule could be
created by such astronomical odds of chance.
However, one molecule is of no use. Hundreds of
millions of identical ones are necessary. Thus
we either admit the miracle or doubt the absolute
truth of science.Lecompte de Nouy 
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•    "Science is possible only because we live in
  an ordered universe which complies with simple
  mathematical laws. The job of the scientist is to
  study, catalogue and relate the orderliness in
  nature, not to question its origin. But
  theologians have long argued that the order in
  the physical world is evidence for God. If this
  is true, then science and religion acquire a
  common purpose in revealing God's
  work."     Paul Davies, God and the New Physics,
  p. 144.

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The Downward Spiral of Sin

• Why is God so angry?
• God has revealed Himself
• 119-20
• Mankind has suppressed the truth
• 118b,21
• Gods world is really messed up
• 118a

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The Downward Spiral of Sin

• God is angry because
• Mankind has perverted worship 121-25
• Idolatry 122-23

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Their idols are silver and gold, The work of
mans hands. They have mouths, but they cannot
speak They have eyes, but they cannot see They
have ears, but they cannot hear They have noses,
but they cannot smell They have hands, but they
cannot feel They have feet, but they cannot
walk They cannot make a sound with their throat.
Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them. Psalm 1154-8
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• Idolatry Whatever we believe will satisfy us and
  at the same time remain controlled by us.
  Idolatry is reducing god to manageable terms.

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The Downward Spiral of Sin

• God is angry because
• Mankind has perverted worship 121-25
• Idolatry 122-23
• Immorality 124-25
• Mankind has perverted self 126-27
• Mankind has perverted society 128-31

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They exchanged the glory and the truth
God gave them over
Blindness toward God
They exchanged the natural function
God gave them over
Blindness toward self
They disregarded the knowledge
God gave them over
Blindness toward others
Cheerleaders for evil