In Ecclesiastes 7:29), the Ecclesiastes writer points out the fact that God created man “upright” or fashioned man in the moral image of God (Genesis 1:27). Thus man was not designed in God’s original plan to be sinful,but rather with a spiritual inclination to faithfulness (cf. Matthew 24:13; Revelation 2:10). <\/p>\n
The term “upright” gives us the idea of one who possesses a disposition that loves rightness and declines any wrongdoing that is contrary to God’s law (cf. Psalm 7:8-11; Psalm 125:4).<\/p>\n
However, contrary to God’s original plan, mankind has “gone in search of many schemes” (Ecclesiastes 7:29 NIV) or “inventions” (Ecclesiastes 7:29 KJV). With purpose and persistence of mind, mankind has facilitated his apostasy by charting a course away<\/strong> from the will of God (Genesis 11:1-9; Hebrews 3:8-12; cf. Numbers 14:1-38; Numbers 20:1-13).<\/p>\n For example, television could have been used as a marvelous invention of communication to glorify the God of heaven. Unfortunately, this medium has largely been used as a provider of immorality (note soap operas and late night fare which promotes homosexuality and other deviant lifestyles).<\/p>\n There’s only one way for sinful mankind (Nehemiah 9:33) to return to the state of being “upright,” and that is to return to the “upright” judgments of God (Psalm 119:137; Psalm 25:4-10), being obedient to His voice<\/strong> (Nehemiah 1:6-9; Deuteronomy 4:29-31; cf. Deuteronomy 30:1-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Ecclesiastes 7:29), the Ecclesiastes writer points out the fact that God created man “upright” or fashioned man in the moral image of God (Genesis 1:27). Thus man was not designed in God’s original plan to be sinful,but rather with a spiritual inclination to faithfulness (cf. Matthew 24:13; Revelation 2:10). The term “upright” gives us … Continue reading “Mankind And Apostasy – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}