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Folly and Wickedness of Men.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. |
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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.
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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
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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.
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3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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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
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4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And call not upon Jehovah?
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5 There were they in great fear;
For Jehovah is in the generation of the righteous.
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6 Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,
Because Jehovah is his refuge.
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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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