Thursday, January 27, 2005
Roman Empire & USA
BONUS TIME
"I don't mind you comin' here/And wastin' all my time/Cause when you're standin' oh so near/I kinda lose my mind"
Nobody got the last BT (Glass Tiger, Don't forget me when I'm gone...oh how soon we forget!)
Learned about this in our Men's Bible Study as we are studying Romans. This Wednesday morning, 6:30 a.m., the text wasChapter 1:18-32:
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For 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.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to ual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful s. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with for one another. Men committed acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, , strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, Godhaters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve , they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Back in the late 1700's, a British parliamentarian and soldier named Edward Gibbon wrote a book entitled The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . There are some reviews you can check out at the link. Anyway, our teacher, Bernard, said that Gibbon gives five reasons for the fall of Rome. Check them out, keepin the above passage in mind, and tell me what you think:
1. Undermining of the family unit
2. Overtaxation of the people
3. Mad craze for pleasure
4. Great armement to fight those outside their borders
5. Decay of religious faith
"I don't mind you comin' here/And wastin' all my time/Cause when you're standin' oh so near/I kinda lose my mind"
Nobody got the last BT (Glass Tiger, Don't forget me when I'm gone...oh how soon we forget!)
Learned about this in our Men's Bible Study as we are studying Romans. This Wednesday morning, 6:30 a.m., the text wasChapter 1:18-32:
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For 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.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to ual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful s. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with for one another. Men committed acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, , strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, Godhaters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve , they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Back in the late 1700's, a British parliamentarian and soldier named Edward Gibbon wrote a book entitled The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . There are some reviews you can check out at the link. Anyway, our teacher, Bernard, said that Gibbon gives five reasons for the fall of Rome. Check them out, keepin the above passage in mind, and tell me what you think:
1. Undermining of the family unit
2. Overtaxation of the people
3. Mad craze for pleasure
4. Great armement to fight those outside their borders
5. Decay of religious faith
// posted by Unknown @ 10:45 AM 
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