The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good. v.1
Read chapter 14
The word "fool" in scripture isn't how we'd today use fool as someone MENTALLY deficient, but one who's MORALLY deficient. Those that don't believe in God isn't because they came to this intellectual conclusion of reason but because of their desire and actions they don't want anyone to have to answer to. In the original text it says "there is no LORD" (not "there is no God"). This is huge in that the Hebrew word for LORD is Yahweh, the relation God-Jesus Christ. Sure many people make God in their own thoughts and images but here they are saying there's no God like Yahweh. It's not the concept of God they reject but the concept of Yahweh.
Who are some intellectual people you know that are morally fools? Who are "mentally fools" but know God? How would you define who Yahweh is based on scripture and not just making up what we want our God to be like?
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