What's wrong with God? James M Boice

When we say that God has revealed Himself in nature and that men and women have nevertheless not sought Him on the basis of that revelation, the question immediately arises, 'Why have men and women not done this?'

This is a fascinating question, because the reason is not that God cannot be known....

Nature does not merely admit the God-hypothesis, it forcefully and conclusively proclaims God's existence.

So no one -- not a child, not a scientist, not an American, not a European -- has any excuse for failing to seek God.

God has made Himself so clear in nature -- so clear in a snowflake, a fingerprint, a grain of sand, a star, a quasar, anything you can think of -- that all people who do not seek Him out on the basis of His general revelation are foolish and rebellious.


Why don't we seek Him?

Obviously, the problem is not intellectual. It is moral.

We do not seek God out, not because God cannot be found or because the evidence does not point to Him, but because we do not like the God who is to be found.

He is an offense to us, and therefore we run away from Him and suppress the truth.

Why is the wrath of God revealed against men and women? Because they "suppress the truth" concerning Him.

In other words, the truth of God is like a big spring. It threatens to leap up, change our lifestyle, and alter the way we think.

It is because we don't want to do this that we hold it down, denying and ignoring the obvious revelation of His sovereignty.

We don't want to give up control of our lives.

  -- From Standing on the Rock,
            by James Montgomery Boice, Chapter 2






The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles..

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator -- who is forever praised. Amen.

Romans 1:18-25