Romans 1:22–23
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Affirming to be wise, they were caused to be foolish, and exchanged the proper opinion of the incorruptible God with the likeness of an image of human and birds and four-footed animals, and crawling things (Romans 1:22–23).
False religions and beliefs are a direct result of the rejection of truth and the clearly perceived inherent ability of God seen in nature.
Those who reject the evidence of God, in the affirmation of their wisdom, display their foolishness. The theory of evolution is a good example of such foolishness, for it violates known scientific laws. For example, the second law of thermodynamics, which, by observation, displays that order never comes from chaos.
In the rejection of a proper opinion of God, men created for themselves gods like themselves, birds, four-footed animals, and even creeping things. These types of false beliefs result from humans rendering their own reasoning worthless in order to maintain the world of fiction they have created. For they must reject the truth to cling to such illogical beliefs.
The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God (1 Corinthians 1:20). The world’s wisdom is based on self-seeking, envy, earthly, emotionally focused, and demonic in nature (James 3:15). It is not a wisdom that considers truth (James 3:14).
Only the fool says in his heart, there is no God (Psalm 14:1).