Rom 10:18 Ignorance is No Excuse

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Ignorance is No Excuse

Rom 10:18 But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." (Ps 19:4)

Notice the context of the quote from Ps 19
 

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Ps 19:1-4a

This is not the gospel message. This is not the good news. Paul writes of some the essentials of the gospel saying to the Corinthians, "Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" 1Cor 15:1-4 But here there's no mention of Christ's death, burial, or resurrection. No mention of Christ dying for our sins.

What Paul is referring to here is the same as he referred to in Romans 1:20, namely that "since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities— his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

That is, with regards to the existence of God and consequently one's accountability to God, there is no one who can excuse themselves on these matters seeing as there is sufficient evidence that God is our Creator. This information is sufficient to condemn a person, but not to save them. To be saved they have to hear and believe the gospel

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[Justin Adams]

He refers to this in John's vision.