Indeed, humanity is without excuse for God has revealed Himself through His creation (Rom. 1:19-20). When we couple this with God sovereignly positioning the nations so that they would perhaps reach out and find Him (Acts 17:26-27), we observe humanity's resposibility before God. We must always be mindful however, that even though one may reach out to God even in an unsaved condition (as I did at age 27 through a difficult life situation), we simply cannot enter into a relationship with Him but by His gracious calling (John 6:44).
Back to humanity's resposibility, it has been good to have had impressed upon me, the fact that sin is not so much individual acts, but rather it is a failure to acknowledge God for who he is(Rom. 1:21, 25, 28). Thus the horror of being 'given up' (1:24, 26, 28) to all kinds of evil and the resultant effects, not the least of which is a depraved mind!
Praise be to God that he has restored us through Jesus to a relationship with Himself, such that we may live the life He intends for us by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:1-17), a life characterised by a mind of 'life and peace'
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