The world has gone mad and the Church is to blame. The world has gone mad because we refuse to speak the truth and the first truth is that God rules over all. The second truth is that men are depraved and wicked to their core.
God rules over all of Creation.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
If God created, then God can destroy. If God created all then God owns and rules over all. He comprehends all. He rules over all events, over good and evil, over the thoughts, intentions, and desires of men. Nothing comes to pass that he is not aware of and either commands or allows. All is from His mighty hand.
None are saved apart from His will. None can be saved apart from His desire for we are hostile towards him by nature. He saves who he wills and allows to perish who he wills. If we are left to our natural desires, we will gladly choose eternal destruction. By His grace and intent alone are any delivered.
Men are wicked and unrepentant without his grace. We murder, cheat, lie and steal from each other. We destroy all we touch. Only by his grace do any survive a single day in his creation.
If we deny his sovereignty, we will necessarily deny man's depravity. If we deny man's depravity, we deny his sovereignty. These two run together. Today our works destroys itself because we have accepted the lie that men are not depraved but good. We believe that men have "evolved" and in this evolution we have reached a state of morality that does not require a Creator. We believe that men can live together without the influence or rule of an absolute moral standard Bearer, and despite the onslaught of overwhelming evidence, we cling to our lie because we prefer it to the truth that we are all beyond any redemption of it own making.
The Church builds on this lie. We prefer our righteousness to God's when we say that men are "free" to believe in God. We grasp small meaningless remnants of our dignity when we deny that God rules the heart, but we have no dignity. We are slaves to our sin. We wallow in our filth but we call it "choice" because that is how we define love. God does not define love this way. God loves and only God. Only God can love. When we claim that we chose God, we claim a false goodness that does not exist and we refuse to submit ourselves to God's sovereignty.
Our God is in the heavens; he does what he pleases.
He does not do what we please. He does not respond to us. He does not wait for us. He does not relinquish his rule and place us on the Creator's throne. That is madness. The world has gone mad because the Church believes that men are good and God is weak, but we can save the world if we submit to God and speak the truth.
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