Tag Archives: death spiral

Romans 2.1

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. In Romans 1, Paul takes great pain to point out to us that every human who rejects God slips down a death spiral, that without God their conditionContinue reading “Romans 2.1”

Romans 1.31

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: In this final section of his list of the characteristics of the man or the nation without God, Paul lists five things that they do not have. In the Greek, this verse is five words, all beginning with the prefix a-. The prefix a- in the GreekContinue reading “Romans 1.31”

Romans 1.30

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, We are today continuing to examine Paul’s list of the features of a society or individual that is reprobrate and has reached the bottom of the death spiral: people or nations that have ignored God and rejected God totally and completely.Continue reading “Romans 1.30”

Romans 1.29

eing filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, This verse and the next two verses show the the end results of the “death spiral”. This is what it looks like when an individual or a community or a nation completely rejects God and His ways andContinue reading “Romans 1.29”

Romans 1.27

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. In the last verse we looked at what I call the “death spiral” in which aContinue reading “Romans 1.27”

Romans 1.25

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Here we find the process of degradation of any nation, any community, any person who rejects God spiral even more out of control. Let’s look at what has happened soContinue reading “Romans 1.25”