Trying to Make Natural Revelation Convenient

If something is inexcusable, we mean that it is really bad. The Greek word for this is anapologetos, and the apostle Paul uses it twice — once in Romans 1 and another time in Romans 2. In the first instance, he says that those who live lives of moral defiance, in the light of what every man knows about God from the creation, whether he admits it or not, are men who are “without excuse” (Rom. 1:20). In the second instance, Paul argues that men are without excuse because they judge other men according to a standard they refuse to live by themselves (Rom. 2:1). So the two things that are inexcusable according to Paul are, first, refusal to live by what God declares in creation, and second, instance upon applying that same standard to other people. “Natural revelation can’t tell me what to do, and this same natural revelation is most certainly binding on you.”