God has so clearly manifested himself ever since the creation of the world

through everything that is made that you can never use ignorance as an excuse

before God.

In the final analysis, the affirmation of the existence of God is not an intellectual question, it's a moral one. Paul says that the invisible attributes, his eternal power, his divine nature have been clearly seen and understood through by means

of what has been made so that they are without excuse.

See, this is not simply an awe-moral, intellectual question.

The question of your affirmation or denial of the existence of God is a matter of consummate moral culpability. What excuse is the apostle pulling away from the atheist here?

The one excuse that every atheist, that every agnostic will want to use on the final day of judgment is the excuse of ignorance.

God, I didn't know you were there.

If I just would have known, I would have believed you, I would have followed you, I would have

obeyed you.

What's worse than hardcore atheism is allegedly soft core atheism which goes under the guise of agnosticism. The agnostic says

I'm not going to say there is no God. I just simply don't know whether there's a

God because I don't think there's sufficient evidence to come to a conclusion one way or the other.

That terrifies me when I hear somebody say that.

I say because what you're saying now is not only you're not willing to affirm the existence of God but you

are pinning the blame of that unwillingness on God himself for not giving you

sufficient information. Be careful here you are adding insult to injury.

If this is true, then what it is saying here is that God has so clearly, clearly,

manifested himself ever since the creation of the world through

everything that is made that you can never use ignorance as an excuse before

God. What Paul is saying is that people claim ignorance as an excuse, but it is a

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