Man is spiritually and morally bankrupt!QUOTE
Romans 3:23
for All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
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1 John 1:8
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
God is basically saying everyone, literally mean every single human being on earth.
I look at my own life before knowing God.
I lied, I cheat, had murderous thoughts, watched pornography, full of pride, egoistic, really hated everybody, etc etc.
The list is long. If there are millions like me, the world would be a messed. Guess what? There are billions like me on planet earth. That is the real fact.
That's why the world is a big mess. That's is the problem with Sin.
The best part is, by Today's standard what is considered morally detestable decades ago is acceptable today.
People curse and swear as if it's nothing. People steal and cheat and say it's nothing. People sin in lust and promiscuity and says it's nothing. People mistreat and hurt others out of insecurity and thinks it's nothing.
What they don't realize is, it's nothing to them but it's something to others. Every act of sin has a cause and effect on people. It hurts people.
Hurts beget Hurts. Eye for an Eye. It's a chain effect. problem is, nobody knows how far the damage cycle last. I'll tell you, it spreads non stop. That is the truth.
Take for example, rude driver A drives carelessly to intimidate and mistreat other drivers B,C,D, etc. Those victims (B,C,D) of the bully in return, mistreat others out of disgruntled treatment (E,F,G, etc) and hence the 3rd wave of mistreated victim mistreat others. They (E,F,G,etc) go to office, emotionally disturbed, mistreat their co-workers (H,I,J) and the (H,I,J) evening come home from work mistreat their wives, kid, etc.
The list goes on and on. The pyramid effect is really wide spread and hard to be contained.
God is right. Man is spiritually and morally bankrupt . There's nothing to argue about this really.
There are people who says they're basically good and don't really believe that he/she fallen short in sin.
That's basically is self righteousness and it's a form of prideful sin.
What is really disturbing is, the bible says:
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John 3:19
This is the verdict: Light (Jesus) has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
In the last days, Man is so corrupted and morally bankrupt, they actually love Sin rather than doing what is right.
I believe this moral decay is deeply rooted by the world's philosophy.
The believe system that are of this world basically ingrained everyone to look to self and be self-centred.
ME ME ME I I I.
Study all the religions of this world and all of them is basically teaching everyone to be self centred, self focus, self zen realization to self salvation/enlightenment, etc.
Self Effort is corrupt and stain with Sin.
How can spiritually and morally bankrupt Man alleviate themselves when they themselves are stained? You get the idea.
It's like this, if you killed someone, no matter how many good deeds you've done, you still did killed someone.
That is never going to be erased. Whatever good deeds you do, is not in the least remotely related to the murder you've done.
If your other good deeds are not even remotely related to the wrong you have done, how can your other good actions cancelled out your wrongs?
Answer is, it's never going to. You have to answer for each wrong you've done.
So if Today,
Anyone says that Man's own effort is good enough to bring him to his own salvation, to me that is like digging your own pit 10 miles deep and say you can climb out without a rope. It's a hypocritical statement.
But there is hope. Our Hope is in Jesus.
Why Jesus? Because the Man who knew no sin and is without Sin came to our world to be punished for our sins and iniquity so that we do not have to.
He is the perfect example of where to put our Hope in.
And He has done it, overcome all Man's imperfection, Flaws and sin. That is the best part.
To the point even death could not hold him and is raised from the grave.
The point is this, all the world's system of believe points to self effort and their model of hope is either dead, non existence or ever unsure.
Our model of hope Lives Today.
Hallelujah. Praise n Glory to God.
God Bless.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Apr 4 2012, 12:14 AM