So, if you remind them [lost men] of God they will not “like” you because they don’t want to “retain” that “knowledge.” So, they will work day and night, generation after generation, attempting to come up with systems that will make that “knowledge” go away and replace it with something more “acceptable.”

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down IMAGINATIONS, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2Corinthians 10:3-5).

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the DARKNESS of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, IN THE VANITY OF THEIR MIND, HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED, BEING ALIENATED from the life of God through the IGNORANCE that is in them, because of the BLINDNESS of their heart: Who being PAST FEELING have GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER unto lasciviousness, to work all UNCLEANESS with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus; That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is CORRUPT according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:17-24).

“And you HATH HE QUICKENED, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, according to THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, THE SPIRIT THAT NOW WORKETH in the children OF DISOBEDIENCE: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were BY NATURE the children OF WRATH, even as others. BUT GOD, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” (Ephesians 2:1-5).

What they will end up with is a bunch of “brute beasts” running around jungle cities named Sodom and Gomorrah. Naturally, when some stupid, depraved, degenerate, God-defying, alienated sinner promotes this Bible rejecting mentality and worldview, the news media “takes pleasure in them.” As agents and tools of the world system, their job is to promote such “enlightenment” deathstyles (Genesis 3) and fill people with so much intellectual, moral and spiritual filth and trash that they become walking garbage cans wholly given over to “uncleaness.” “Garbage in, garbage out” I believe is the expression. “…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34). So, if all that comes out of your mouth is “filth,” “trash” and “dung” then we know what you are “full of.”

“Fools make a mock at sin…The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident…A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies” (Proverbs 14:9,15,16,25).

This is what “edification” is about and there is a great difference between the “wisdom of this world” (1Cor 1) which will turn you into an “ignorant,” animalistic “fool” when it comes to the “truth” versus “godly edifying which is in faith” (1Tim 1:4) which will give you instruction in “godliness.” And of course, the essential “starting” point for this education is “the fear of the Lord” which the humanistic, naturalistic “brute beasts” have none of. If a man does not acknowledge the authority of the God of heaven, then he will eventually become nothing more than an animal and “brute beast” just like king Nebuchadnezzar. If a man insists on rebelliously declaring, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice…?” (Exodus 5:2) then he is destined to find out the answer to his question, only it will be in judgment, not grace. “…who HOLD the truth IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS…And even as they did not like to RETAIN God in their knowledge…” (Romans 1:18,28).

I will say it again, when it comes to this world that Bible is a negative book. The world does everything they can to “change” the truth into something that is more in keeping with their “liking.” If you intend to be “faithful” in following your “example” and “pattern” then you had better be prepared to be considered a “fool” and the “offscouring of the world” in the eyes of the Truth-rejecting men and women who follow the world system.

“But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions…Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus SHALL suffer persecution” (2Timothy 3:10-12).

“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day” (1Corinthians 4:12,13).

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish FOOLISHNESS; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God…For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the FOOLISHNESS of PREACHING to save them that believe” (1Corinthians 1:18,21).

“And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with ENTICING words. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the STEADFASTNESS of your faith in Christ. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: ROOTED and BUILT UP in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. BEWARE lest any man SPOIL you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And YE ARE COMPLETE in him, which is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:4-10).

“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye WERE sometimes darkness, BUT NOW are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather REPROVE them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are REPROVED are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because THE DAYS ARE EVIL. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:5-17).

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. I CHARGE THEE THEREFORE before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall JUDGE the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; PREACH the word; be instant in season, out of season; REPROVE, REBUKE, EXHORT with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from THE TRUTH, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, ENDURE AFFLICTIONS, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry” (2Timothy 3:16-4:5).

And when you do that “faithfully” you will be HATED because “men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil HATETH the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved” (John 3:19,20). Man HATES that Bible because Man is a dirty, filthy, rebellious, ungodly, haughty, prideful self-righteous sinner and that Book calls him on the carpet and doesn’t mince words.

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, bringing in the flood UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the FILTHY conversation of THE WICKED: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished” (2Peter 2:4-9).

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days SCOFFERS, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they WILLINGLY are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of UNGODLY men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is LONGSUFFERING to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. BUT the day of the Lord WILL COME as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (2Peter 3:3-10).

“I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not…Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, ARE SET FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these FILTHY DREAMERS defile the flesh…But these speak evil of those things WHICH THEY KNOW NOT: but WHAT THEY KNOW NATURALLY AS BRUTE BEASTS, in those things they corrupt themselves…And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are UNGODLY among them of all their UNGODLY deeds which they have UNGODLY committed, and of all their hard speeches which UNGODLY sinners have spoken against him. These are murmerers, complainers, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS; and their mouth speaketh GREAT SWELLING WORDS, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should WALK AFTER THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS” (Jude 5,7,8,10,14-18).