Biblog

After studying Romans 8 for while this year, I figured out that a goodly number of Christian writers agree on one of the basic human problems: "The sinful mind hates God" (is hostile to God, ignores God, and is in rebellion to God ) -- and so man overlooks the Wisdom of God, and continually stumbles about in the stupor of sin.

The reason this needs to be stated so plainly is that is not as obvious as you might think.
Man's reasoning power is corrupted by sin.
Man's thinking power is dulled by sin.
What's plain is not so clear, but is hid from our eyes.
The wisdom of God is obscured by our hostility to the idea that SOMEONE is wiser than us.
So, the sinful mind claims to love God and listen to God, even while the opposite is happening.
Man is even in rebellion to the IDEA that he is in rebellion to God.
Men hate the IDEA that they hate God, so while they say "I love God", they continue to despise God in their hearts.

This is one of the basic human problems. What do you think?

Back in February 2004 I began a series of studies on the Book of Romans. Since I was away from Blogger, I began another, rather larger project indexing many of (most of) the references to Romans on the Internet.

My blogger account had been broken since May of 2004, when the good Blogger people began a series of software upgrades. My account access was lost for a while during the Blogger upgrades and then I was too busy on other projects at home... then I upgraded to Firefox... then a zillion other things happened....

I am using Mozilla 1.7.1 for this since I still can't get Firefox working with Blogger. The odd part is, Firefox works for everything else and Firefox is recommended by the Blogger people, and Firefox works great from another comptuer I have, but Firefox, Blogger, and my particular computer is a "bad combination". It's a really long technical story.... so anyway... it's good to be back, with a repaired password and using good ol Mozilla.