Worthy is the Lamb: WHY WILLINGLY IGNORANT + + + BY ELIGAH BARRETT

Sunday, November 27, 2016

WHY WILLINGLY IGNORANT + + + BY ELIGAH BARRETT

Eligah Barrett

Discussion - 6:33 AM

WHY WILLINGLY IGNORANT?

ALREADY , in the quotation from the first chapter of Romans, I have given you a reason they were willingly ignorant of the things of the true GOD. But WHY? WHY WILLINGLY IGNORANT? In Romans 8:7 it is stated plainly that the natural mind of humans is hostile against God. This does not necessarily mean that all unconnected human minds are actively, intentionally, maliciously hostile. Most humans are passively hostile against God. They simply do not normally think about God. If God is mentioned they become embarrassed and often try to change the subject. They probably do not realize, in their own minds, that they have a hostile attitude toward God. Yet that is the very reason, psychologically, why they want to avoid the subject. In other words, the average person has an unrealized passive hostility against God. Without realizing it actively, they want God to keep His nose out of their business except at a time when they are in deep trouble and they cry out for God's help.

Spiritual things invisible things are a mystery to them. They do not understand those things, real though they are, because they cannot see them. They remain a deep mystery so they deny their existence.

There was a cause for this willing ignorance. And the Bible clearly tells us that cause, which is dual: 1 what occurred prehistórically, 2 what God Himself instituted following the original sin of Adam. All this to be explained in the next few days posts, and the CAUSE of all the escalating evils of today's world, are clearly revealed by God almighty in His Word the Holy Bible. This will be made plain as we progress.

But first, what does the Bible reveal about WHO and WHAT is God? It is only in this inspired book that God reveals Himself. But mankind in general has never believed God that is, what God says! God spoke face to face, personally, to Adam and Eve, the first created humans. Then he allowed Satan to approach them. Satan got to Adam through his wife. Our original parents believed Satan when He said,Ye shall not surely die, after God had said, Thou shalt surely die upon stealing the forbidden fruit.
When Jesus Christ spoke on the earth 4,000 years later, only 120 people believed what He said Acts 1:15, though He preached His message from God to multiple thousands.

No wonder, then , not one of these religions, sects and denominations, except the small and persecuted Church founded by Jesus Christ A.D. 31, starting with that 120, believes God, which means these others do not believe what God says in His Word. God's Word plainly reveals who and what God is! But there is a reason for their ignorance. This will be made clear as we proceed.

Just WHO and WHAT, then, is God? How does He reveal Himself? Already I have quoted the Apostle Paul saying to the Athenian intellectuals that God is the creator, who designed, formed, shaped and created MAN.

The Prophet Isaiah quotes God Himself, saying: to whom then will ye liken me, or shall I say I be equal?...Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: HE calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that he is strong in power; not bone faileth Isaiah 40:25-26.
Read this in the James Moffatt translation in modern English:

To whom will you compare me, then, and equal me? Asks the Majestic One. Lift high your eyes, look up; who made These stars? He who marshals them in order, summoning each one by name. For fear of Him, so mighty and so strong, not one fails to appear.

Further, God Himself says to the skeptics: Now, the Eternal cries, bring your case forward, now, Jacob's King cries, state state your proofs. Let us hear what happened in the past, that we may ponder it, or show me what is yet to be, that we may watch how it turns out; yes, let us hear what is coming, that we may be sure you are gods; come, do something or other that we may marvel at the sight! Why, taunts God to the doubters, you are things of naught, you can do nothing at all! Isaiah 41:21-24, Moffatt. These scriptures reveal God's power but not what God is, in a manner to make Him real to the reader. Other scriptures must do that.