Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101, where we're giving short answers to some really hard questions.

There are some theologians that believe and teach that mankind is born hating God,

that their nature is fallen and corrupt to the point where they literally hate the things of God.

They cannot want the things of God unless God changes them to make them want the things of God.

But is this what the Bible really teaches?

I want us to go through this and really

understand this from, I think, a biblical perspective and understanding that we are not born in such a

condition that we have no control over our desires and our responses to God's call to be

reconciled from our fallenness. I believe this is very important because some theologians, though well

intending, what they're trying to do is really show how bad we are. And we are bad. We are in a

sinful condition. But sometimes you can overstate your case so much so that you make the case even

worse. Because when you say that mankind is so bad that they can't control their desires in such a

manner that they can only hate God, you're ultimately, in my estimation, giving them back the very

excuse that I believe Paul is taking away in Romans chapter 1 when he says that God's nature

is made known to all people clearly so that they may recognize him as God and honor him as God.

And therefore they are without excuse for not living in faith and believing in him.

If you say that mankind is born with a condition that they cannot desire and to do the things

that God has called them and clearly revealed to them, then you're ultimately, I think,

giving the very excuse that Paul is taking away. So let's look at this from a biblical

perspective and try to understand that we can, yes, if we continue to suppress the truth and

unrighteousness, and continue to trade the truth of God in for lies, we can become haters of God to the point where we are so

defiled in our thinking and that we become calloused and hardened and our consciences become

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