Futile Thinking

Romans 1:21: They became futile in their thinking... An acceptance of contradiction as a state of normalcy destroys man's ability to discern anything of real value, because there is nothing that is real but what is received through his senses alone. The idea of real implies a value that transcends man's capabilities unless you put man himself in that place. But then that value is worthless and fleeting. A thing is only important for the time that a man places on it. After that, it is thrown away without giving it a further thought. This condition applies to all things. So it is a universal truth after all, that since nothing is valued higher than the value of which man places on it, then once that thing no longer serves his fancy it is disposed of. This applies not only to things but to man himself therefore man values nothing of real, intrinsic worth since all things are viewed as worthless; including himself. There is nothing "real". For if there is any real value, then man cannot have control over it. It is a universal truth and man has rejected any standard but that which he chooses for himself alone without coercion. In theological circles, today's version of Wesleyanism comes closest to this in practice. For there cannot be a sovereign God if God has power of the will of man. There has to be another explanation for man's power to decide while maintaining God as God. The propping up of man's will as ultimate will diminish God's supreme control of the things he has made, and we have exactly the problem we started with. If God is less than God then man reigns supreme. All decisions and choices are determined and decided by man and God cannot interfere one bit. God falls away, in the end, and man's world falls apart as he finds that no longer is anything secure. Once the foundations are shaken down how can man build on it things that last? He cannot. He can only build things that will burn. We must not think we are anything at all. We must have an accurate image of what we are. We are lost and weak. We are sinners and cannot do anything that will go the distance. All our righteous deeds are as filthy rags the scripture declares. Especially if the standard of righteousness that we use is nothing greater than what we define it to be. How pitiful is our measure! How lame indeed!