If you’ve read my previous post, God Does Not Hate You, you’ve already learned that God doesn’t hate you, that Jesus died to give you eternal life, and that you must do what Jesus commands in order to claim that gift.

What If I Don’t Want To Do Any of That?

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” (John 3:36)

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” (BLOGGER’S NOTE: That’s “men” as in full-grown adults; not babies and children)

“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

(BLOGGER’S NOTE: I don’t want scientists to stop exploring and investigating any more than scientists themselves want to do that. So why should they stop investigating because they “have all the answers” on this or any issue? It’s worth noting that all research is financed and that everyone who writes the checks has an agenda. This is just as true for those I agree with as for those I don’t. And, yes, I understand that every scientist walks into the lab with a bias comes in part from the results of previous research.)

Continuing in Romans 1: “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.” (Romans 1:18-32)

“Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.” (Romans 2:3-5)

(BLOGGER’S NOTE: Didn’t think I’d bother to address the sins that Christians commit, did you? Well, I did because God did, in that last passage. Sin is sin where God’s concerned. Christians don’t get a free pass. Anyone who tells you we do is a liar and … oops! in sin.)