Lessons from Genesis: 2
“There
is none who does good, no, not one." Romans 3:12 NKJV
B. F. Skinner was a twentieth
century psychologist who had a tremendous impact on the thinking and planning
of post WWII America. In his book, “Walden Two”, he taught that man was nothing
more than the result of his environment. The right environment would create the
right man. Billions of dollars of government funds were spent to create the
right environment to create the perfect society. We would all be good and happy
and live in peace and harmony if we only had the right things and were taught
in the right way. Genesis and Psalm 14 say that B.F. Skinner was a fool.
Genesis teaches that the perfect
environment did not make the perfect man. Eden was as good as it got. Adam
sinned. God gave Noah and his family a new start in a scrubbed clean earth.
They sinned. God gave the Israelites the perfect set of laws and the perfect
Promised Land to live in. They broke the laws and polluted the land. The Bible
tells us what God knows about us; we are sinful beings. To deny that is to deny
God. If you are waiting for things to get perfect before you come to God, don’t
wait. Only God is perfect and He has given us His Son to pay for our sins and
take us some day to His perfect place where we will indeed live without sin or
its consequences.
Dear
Father, We acknowledge that we are not perfect, never have been and in this
life never will be. Thank You for forgiveness through Your Son so that we can
be saved. Amen.
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