Foolish. faithless. heartless. ruthless.
Romans 1:31, natural consequences, and the kind of God who wants to transform the human condition
Gentle reader,
For years, the drumbeat of Romans 1:31 has been pounding through my mind, a poignant appraisal of the sinful human condition. In the NRSV translation, it’s just four words:
“foolish,
faithless,
heartless,
ruthless.”
That’s it for the verse. Four staccato descriptors of us humans when given over “to an unfit mind” and to doing “things that shoul…
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