Psalms Chapter 14 [RVIC]

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Folly and Wickedness of Men.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no Jehovah.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works;
There is none that doeth good.
The fool – One who ignores, or lacks, reason. HG528:1

The person who, after intelligent thought, concludes that there is no God; that everything came to be what it is by chance. SM467:3; R5210:3, R2834:2

Those who do not recognize the great First Cause, God, have their intellects so perverted that they are fools. R2834:2

The study of creation is the key to knowledge. PD1/7

Blinded with pride and liberty of earthly wisdom, science falsely so called. R525:4

So undeniable is the basis of fact in nature's testimony, and so logical the reasoning from cause to effect, that the Bible declares the man a fool who does not accept the conclusion that there is an intelligent Creator. R1158:2

Said in his heart – Even the "fool" says it to himself. It is not a conclusion of reason, but an expression of a wish. He is anxious to get rid of God in order that he may freely exploit his folly. R3421:1

There is no God – That each cranium makes its own god, according to its own development of the qualities of wisdom, justice, love and power. OV61:T

It is a self-evident truth that effects must be produced by competent causes. HG528:1

Nature alone teaches that there is a God. R932:4, R2162:2; HG528:1

Only 35% of the students in a large class at Columbia University expressed their belief in a personal God. R3792:1

None that doeth good – All have shared in Adam's sin and its death sentence. All come short of the glory of God as represented in the first perfect man. HG193:5


2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were any that did understand,
That did seek after Jehovah.
3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
None that doeth good – None up to the standard of perfection required by the Law; hence none approved by it. R812:2*

None perfect, sound in either mind or body. R1080:2, R1413:1


4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And call not upon Jehovah?
5 There were they in great fear;
For Jehovah is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,
Because Jehovah is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Out of Zion – The spiritual Church of God. A297; D23; T33; R4474:2

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