Paulβs Epistle to the Romans, Chapters One and Two, present a dark picture of the human race, but acknowledge the facts they record and you have taken the first step to salvation. By nature we shrink from facing up to our sins, but we are better off if we do.
If a man has early indications of cancer, and his physician keeps the truth from him, the patient will die of cancer. A good and wise physician will say: βYou have cancer and we should do something about it without delay.β
Thus God, in His Word, tells us very frankly about our sinful condition, but only to save us from it.
This is where most philosophies and the Bible clash head-on. Most philosophies close their eyes to manβs sinful nature. They presume that man is good by nature when overwhelming evidence bears witness that he is sinful by nature. Thus human philosophies offer no salvation from sin and its just penalty. Only βthe gospel of the grace of Godβ does that.
The Bible says of the whole human race: βAll have sinnedβ (Rom. 3:23), and to each individual: βThou art inexcusableβ (Rom. 2:1). But the same Bible says: βChrist died for our sinsβ (I Cor. 15:3), and βWe have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His graceβ (Eph. 1:7).
Trust in Christ for salvation and you have accepted Godβs great message to the world. source
