We probably all have someone in our lives who is completely unwilling to listen to us when we talk to them about God and about sin and of Christ and His cross and how to be right with God.

They're just closed off to that whole conversation about very important eternal things.

They're just hardened to even entertaining serious thoughts about who God is. We may be eager to share.

They don't want to hear it. But not like they're avoiding something that they don't know anything

about. It's not like they're rejecting some curiosity.

No. And it's not because they're dumb either. It's something else altogether. It's like they

know something they have long tried to forget. Today on Ask Pastor John, why smart people

reject God.

We have just entered Romans Month on the Navigator's Bible Reading Plan, and it is always a great place to return Chloe in London.

Ask us about the first chapter.

Pastor John, hi to you from a weekly listener from across the pond.

In Romans 1 versus 19 to 20 in our reading today, Paul writes, 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 and the

things that have been made. So they are without excuse. If God's existence is said to be

clearly revealed through creation, then why do so many people, including perhaps ourselves,

still feel that God is silent?

We're hidden.

Why doesn't God give us a more personal and unmistakable sign?

Could the issue lie not with God's clarity, but with our capacity or willingness to see?

How does sin, distraction, or spiritual blindness affect our perception of God's self-revelation?

Those really are astonishing words from Paul in Romans 119.

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