Romans 3:28 (NIV)
28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith
apart from the works of the law.
Many people still cling to the notion that man is naturally
good. We did not get this from the Greeks. Aristotle said, “There is no good in
mankind.” We did not get it from Judaism. Jeremiah said, “The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah
17:9).
We did not get it from Christian teachings. The Apostle Paul
said, “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We
got this illusion, I believe, from the philosophers and psychologists of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who taught the false doctrine that man
is a helpless victim of his environment.
The Bible says that man is not naturally good. All human
experience confirms it. Man is rebellious by nature. This first rebellion in
history happened in the Garden of Eden, where the environment was perfect and
there was no heredity on which to blame it!
Thought for today:
Do I acknowledge my faults and weaknesses and give them to God?
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