Carl wrote:
>
> Here's an enlightening exposition on Psalm 53:1 by noted Christian
> theologian Charles Spurgeon.
>
> May God bless,
> Carl
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>
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>
> Exposition On Psalm 53:1
> by C.H. Spurgeon
>
> Psalm 53:1
> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and
have
> done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. (KJV)
A primitive slogan written by an early insecure human
hardly needs four long wishy washy paragraphs to reinforce
it !
Any fool can see the fear of being told they were wrong,
when a the back of their minds they knew they were.
Sounds familiar Carl ?
>
> Ver. 1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. And this he
does
> because he is a fool. Being a fool he speaks according to his nature;
being
> a great fool he meddles with a great subject, and comes to a wild
> conclusion. The atheist is, morally as well as mentally, a fool, a fool
in
> the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in
philosophy.
> With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that
the
> fool's progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins
at
> impiety is ready for anything.
>
> No God, being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust,
no
> limit to passion. Who but a fool would be of this mind? What a Bedlam,
or
> rather what an Aceldama, would the world become if such lawless
principles
> came to be universal! He who heartily entertains an irreligious spirit,
and
> follows it out to its legitimate issues is a son of Belial, dangerous to
the
> commonwealth, irrational, and despicable. Every natural man is, more or
less
> a denier of God. Practical atheism is the religion of the race.
>
> Corrupt are they. They are rotten. It is idle to compliment them as
sincere
> doubters, and amiable thinkers--they are putrid. There is too much
dainty
> dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an
> offensive, putrid sin, and righteous men should look upon it in that
light.
> All men being more or less atheistic in spirit, are also in that degree
> corrupt; their heart is foul, their moral nature is decayed.
>
> And have done abominable iniquity. Bad principles soon lead to bad
lives.
> One does not find virtue promoted by the example of your Voltaires and
Tom
> Paines. Those who talk so abominably as to deny their Maker will act
> abominably when it serves their turn. It is the abounding denial and
> forgetfulness of God among men which is the source of the
unrighteousness
> and crime which we see around us. If all men are not outwardly vicious
it is
> to be accounted for by the power of other and better principles, but
left to
> itself the "No God" spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing
but
> the most loathsome actions.
>
> There is none that doeth good. The one typical fool is reproduced in the
> whole race; without a single exception men have forgotten the right way.
> This accusation twice made in the Psalm, and repeated a third time by
the
> inspired apostle Paul, is an indictment most solemn and sweeping, but he
who
> makes it cannot err, he knows what is in man; neither will he lay more
to
> man's charge than he can prove.
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