The Great Atrocity of Fallen Man

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen (Rom. 1:25) The great atrocity of fallen man is his use of God's gifts of grace within creation as weapons to dishonor and rebel against the Creator.  Since the beginning, mankind has used the creation around him, and even within him, to try to plot against, destroy, and even kill the One who formed them out of the abundance of His grace. We saw it in the hands that took of the forbidden fruit (Gen. 3). We saw it in the stones that built a tower up to the heavens (Gen. 11). We see it in a tree that formed the cross. Time after time, forsaking the fountain of Living Water, man has attempted to seize control of the Divine reign in order that he may be served by God. In so doing, murder, theft, rape, and so much more have arisen out of man's desire to be God. Man, in his desire to rule, has traded the worship of the Creator for the worship of the creature. Thinking to be wise, he has become a fool. Within our world today, members of humanity continue to use the very things granted to them as tools to rebel against God and to destroy their neighbor. Fathers use their authority in the home to deride and abuse those whom they are supposed to love. Mothers use their tongues to deny their husband's role and provoke their children to anger. Children manipulate their parents to gain whatever desire they have. Doctors use their intelligence to take countless lives of the unborn and the disabled. Men and women use their God-given parts and desires to commit immorality, adultery, and homosexuality. Philosophers throughout history have used the very mind that was created within them to deny the God that made it. As fools, they say, "there is no God."  On and on, gifts given by the Creator are used as weapons to rebel and destroy others for every man's or woman's own pleasure. No man is exempt from this reality. For all have fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). All are enemies of the Most High, are unrighteous, and are therefore judged as insurrectionists. We are rebels against our Good Creator. I, with my struggles and my sins, argue with Paul that I too am the chiefest of sinners. For I, also I, have used the truths of God's word granted to me by His sovereign grace to destroy my brothers and sisters rather than build them up. But oh, my friend. Though we are rebels, God is still gracious. For while we used His creation to rebel against Him, Jesus Christ, became like His creation that He may die for us. Because He loves you and me. And now, we can be reconciled to Him. Adulterers we may be. Sinners we may be. But through the blood of Jesus Christ, every murderer, every adulterer, every homosexual, every abortionist, every liar, every thief, every sinner and insurrectionist, that calls upon the name of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, will be saved (Acts 16:31).