Evident within them.
If God made it evident to them, and God is true, then every unbeliever is a liar.
The act of denying creates a character structure in them.
Their sense of being becomes tied to their denying, and the denial becomes a defining part of who they are, maybe, even to the point of becoming purposefully ignorant of Jesus.
ATP synthase
I have the animation of ATP synthase as I find it to be a great example of Irreducible Complexity, the Unmoving Mover, and Intelligent Design.
And it is evidence inside every one of us.
Did you know that your body produces and consumes around 80kgs of ATP a day?
Reluctant Converts
When Saul succumbed to Jesus on the way to Damascus, his personality was crushed, he was broken and totally undone.
Everything he had stood for, fought for, and worked for became vain and false.
Saul became Paul.
There are many stories of reluctant converts, that the weight of the obviousness of the person of Jesus broke their atheism, their agnosticism, their lust for power or flesh or glory.
They could no longer deny Jesus and their lives were transformed.
So there is a journey.
From Ignorance. (Of Jesus)
To Awareness. (Of Jesus)
Often then Denial. (Of Jesus)
And then a lifestyle of denial. (Of Jesus)
In this place either they died in their stubbonness or in some cases they did have a rebirth.
If death, then obviously sad.
They are dead in their denial.
If rebirth.
The person is transformed, they enter into a life lived in and for Jesus.
All the denial they were living with is being swept away.
There is an admission of “I was wrong.”
There is a moral turning, “Not my ways but His ways,” His standards. This is not to get salvation, that has already happened.
There is a relearning that needs to happen.
- Jesus is.
- Jesus lived.
- Jesus taught. (And we need to learn his teachings)
- Jesus died.
- Jesus rose from the dead.
- Jesus is God.
- We now live to imitate Jesus.
A life imitating Jesus is not a narrow bandwidth or a diminished subset of being.
Jesus is God.
A life imitating Jesus becomes the most glorious and far-reaching of possibilities and opportunities.
Romans 1
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.