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| 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. 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
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| 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. |
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| 3 They are all gone aside, they are all 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
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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 the LORD. |
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| 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. |
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| 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
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| 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. |
Out of Zion – The spiritual Church of God. A297; D23; T33; R4474:2
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