"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient." Romans 1:28
The word reprobate is very clearly defined. It means to be morally depraved, unprincipled, or bad. A reprobate mind is a mind that has experienced a loss of logic in reasoning and it is a mind given over to irrational ideas and thoughts. It describes a mind that is so subtlety corrupted to almost be unnoticeable. But, in the process of time, the thinking and the decisions play out in ways no one thought would happen.
Something happened in the world that, while some women are marrying and having children, too many women are choosing to remain childless whether married or not. The number of childless women has grown to the point that we are seeing birth rates dropping below the replacement level in most of the industrialized world.
No one seems to know why this has happened and no one seems to have found a common denominator as to why young people no longer marry and have children like they used to. I have a thought. Something happened spiritually in the world around the 1960's that collectively society turned away from God. We saw political and social revolution. The sexual revolution and the pornification of America began back then. Women's Lib and the women's rights revolution began back then. Nutrition guidelines that cause obesity and diabetes began back then.
Today, girls want fit and strong bodies and careers, not marriage and babies.
One frightening statistic is that the older a woman gets the harder it is to get pregnant. Women who are childless in America at 30 will probably never get married or have children. Bearing children is a very narrow window of opportunity.
One more thought. A reprobate mind does what is not convenient. What does that mean? Let's read on in Romans chapter one, verses 29-32. Verse 30 says that they hate God. People who believe that humans can destroy the world through climate change, but refuse to believe that God destroyed the world in the Flood. People who believe in same sex unions reject the Biblical command to marry and have children. Rebellion is a deliberate decision of a person who, having examined both sides, chooses lies over truth. It is no wonder that, when Christ came to Earth, the first words out of his mouth were, repent! Mankind's greatest sin is not pride, it is rebellion.
It is irrational to call evil good, and to call good evil.
The problem with our world is that we have rejected God, and Christ, and the Bible and that we have believed in and trusted the words and ideas of mere men. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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