They do not submit themselves to God or to His righteous standards for they lack a new holy nature that makes then able to prefer God over sin, to believe in Jesus over self-rule, and to see themselves as in need of salvation that is only in Jesus by grace. Unregenerate man invariably think that they can establish the terms of righteousness for themselves instead of honoring God in His perfect holiness and morality as the only one who can determine what is right and wrong. Every fallen man relies on what is right in His own eyes as his moral standard as opposed to what is right in God's eyes. ( Pr. 12:15; 14:12; 21:2-3; Jdg. 21:25; Dt. 12:8;Is. 53:6; Rom. 1:21-22) Fallen man calls evil good and good evil (Is 5:20).
Unregenerated humans think that they are basically "good" people with some faults, but not thoroughly corrupted by sinfulness. But humans are not basically good, we cannot do one good thing in this life. ( Rom. 7:18). Gen. 6:5 describes the state of unregenerate humanity as continually sinful, inventing new ways to sin against God, always inclined to sin and habitually pursuing evil. How wicked are we in our unregenerated state!
We are not just a little bit sinful, but wholly sinful, and God cannot "look on us" in our sinful state ( Hab. 1:13) in the sense that He must turn away from evil though He remains fully aware of all sin and evil as it occurs. Hab. 1:13 reflects God's hatred of sin and its total offensiveness to Him. In our sinfulness we are an abomination to Him and deserving of the eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire.
PT. 7
They do not submit themselves to God or to His righteous standards for they lack a new holy nature that makes then able to prefer God over sin, to believe in Jesus over self-rule, and to see themselves as in need of salvation that is only in Jesus by grace. Unregenerate man invariably think that they can establish the terms of righteousness for themselves instead of honoring God in His perfect holiness and morality as the only one who can determine what is right and wrong. Every fallen man relies on what is right in His own eyes as his moral standard as opposed to what is right in God's eyes. ( Pr. 12:15; 14:12; 21:2-3; Jdg. 21:25; Dt. 12:8;Is. 53:6; Rom. 1:21-22) Fallen man calls evil good and good evil (Is 5:20).
Unregenerated humans think that they are basically "good" people with some faults, but not thoroughly corrupted by sinfulness. But humans are not basically good, we cannot do one good thing in this life. ( Rom. 7:18). Gen. 6:5 describes the state of unregenerate humanity as continually sinful, inventing new ways to sin against God, always inclined to sin and habitually pursuing evil. How wicked are we in our unregenerated state!
We are not just a little bit sinful, but wholly sinful, and God cannot "look on us" in our sinful state ( Hab. 1:13) in the sense that He must turn away from evil though He remains fully aware of all sin and evil as it occurs. Hab. 1:13 reflects God's hatred of sin and its total offensiveness to Him. In our sinfulness we are an abomination to Him and deserving of the eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire.
See Pt. 8
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