How do you respond to Psalm 14:1?

Question

The fool [a] says in his heart,
"There is no God."
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.

Answer 1

You must also consider the point of writings....David was writing on the culture of Babylon....he was not speaking of people in general...but on a nation that turned its back on God...

That is where misinterpretation of the Bible comes in to play...

It is not safe to take a text...but the whole context and construct as well...

The Bible also says to STUDY to show thy self approved...a WORKMAN that need not be ashamed....

So, David was speaking of a pagan culture that willingly and notably defied the commandments of God....

Great Question.....

Answer 2

Hello, Earth's:

Christians have made such a mess of things that it is no wonder everyone is an atheist. Look at homosexual Baker and Tammy's boob job; Swaggard and the prostitutes, Priests and the altar boys, etc.

In medieval history they tortured and killed pagans, as well as other Christians who did not see eye to eye. It takes no fool to see that maybe religion is a facade.

However, if one sincerely hungers and thirsts after righteousness, they will be filled--that is a promise, and if one looks beyond the hypocrisy that Christ said would enter the church, then you can see His Spirit working to change lives.

My wife and I do missionary work, holding evangelistic meetings in the tropics. We do it because there is enough evidence in the Bible to prove God exists--we average one baptism per day of seminar--thanks to God.

Also, Earth, I stumbled onto a hidden "key" in the Bible to unlock the only part of the Bible that says the words can not be understood until the end of the days. It should prove to many skeptics that God has a plan to save this deviated world. Blessings, One-Way

Answer 3

The truth is the truth no matter how you slice it.

For instance:
Lets hypothetically say that you were raised in a country where it is taught that ALL black people have tails. Now you spent your whole life believing this as "truth" (even though it is not is irrelevant) your plain of existence has taught you to believe what you are taught, no matter what.

Now lets say that you meet a person who knows the truth and has proof. Do you still go on believing a lie or do you go with the evidence you have been presented?

I said all of that to say this: If you are told the truth and you choose not to believe it, what does the thing you have been told become? A lie? NO, it is the truth you choose not to believe.

No my friend, truth is not relative! What is right for one, and wrong for another cannot be. Either it is right, or it is wrong, The one practising the wrong thing has just seared their conscience so it will not effect them.

So no matter what, the truth is the truth, even if you don't believe it.

I will close with this. Have you ever physically touched 1 billion dollars? Yet you believe it exists. Why? By faith you believe.

GOD DOES EXIST and He loves you!

Oh but of course, Ladi Suri believes what she is taught, even if the words may be in a different order, they are still there. So do they say the same thing?

Answer 4

The person who turns to transgression begins to discount God as a factor to be considered when making decisions and plans. Such a person allows his heart to blind him to the wrongness of his ways and he loses insight. Even if claiming to worship God, he puts men’s precepts above God’s; he prefers them. He rationalizes and excuses his loose conduct as mere “sport” and becomes perverted, brutish, stupid in his reasoning, to the extreme of assuming that the invisible God does not see or discern his wrongdoing, as though God’s powers of perception had failed. By his course and actions he says, in effect, “There is no God” (Ps 14:1-3) and leaves him ‘out of the picture.’ Not being guided by divine principles, he cannot judge matters correctly, see the issues clearly, evaluate the factors involved, and arrive at right decisions.

What kind of person is this fool, the man who denies the existence of God? He is not intellectually ignorant. Rather, the Hebrew word na·val′ points to a moral deficiency. the fault is “not weakness of reason, but moral and religious insensibility, an invincible lack of sense, or perception.”

“Counting on this absence of God from the world and on impunity, men become corrupt and do abominable deeds.” They openly embrace ungodly principles and discount a personal God to whom they have no wish to be accountable. But such thinking is as foolish and senseless today as it was when the psalmist wrote his words over 3,000 years ago.

Answer 5

Funny, that verse from the original Hebrew says

1. For the conductor, of David; The fool said in his heart, "There is no God"; they have dealt corruptly; they have committed abominable deeds; no one does good.

Answer 6

I imagine it means what is seems to. King David felt fools don't believe, are corrupt, do bad things, and don't do good.

BTW, ignore Lady Suri. She just proved again she doesn't know Hebrew, but pretends to. Actually the original Hebrew is, "Amar naval b'livo." It means "Says a fool in his heart," but she said, "the fool," which would be, "Amar HA'naval b'livo."

I hate when posers pretend to know things they don't then criticize others.

Answer 7

Just for a second imagine you believe in the bible(if you don't already).

This is how many atheists think.
They start by thinking--there is no one who does good.
That leads them to think--They are corrupt, their deeds are vile.
And finally they think--therefore, there is no God.
I ask you, how foolish is that line of thinking?
There is no good; therefore, there is no God.
Both statements are foolish.

If you truly see no good then you are blind. In Kindergarten we learn between good and bad. If no one had any sense of good and bad then there would be no peace anywhere. We truly would be animals.

Answer 8

Pretty much sums it up.There also a verse that says call no man a fool, because only a fool says there is no God.

Answer 9

So a book says that if you don't believe it you're stupid?

Frankly, this kind of manipulation doesn't even merit a response, and shouldn't work on anybody older than eight.

Answer 10

"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."
--Thomas Jefferson