"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2nd Corinthians 4: 4)
Think about it.
Without God in the knowledge of man, man can be whatever man imagines himself to be, which is an image of himself, which makes him a god without a rival as he will also arise to rule and reign over others in all the ways that he can imagine.
Think about it.
Everything that man has built upon the earth he has built out of his own imagination.
Man builds companies and creates jobs, and people work their jobs according to the outlines they are given from others out of their imaginations. As they work their jobs, they imagine the ways they will spend their money---some for housing, some for food, some for clothing, some for fun---and if there is not enough money to meet his desires he will imagine ways to reduce his spending and not go broke until his next payday.
Think about it.
Man created sports and sports arenas, and as the athletes perform, we imagine ourselves playing in their places and playing better than them while imagining the attention we are getting instead of them.
Think about it.
Man created religions out of his imagination and built the buildings where he gathers to worship in the ways that he has written---the rites, the rituals, the prayers, and even the men in priestly garments he appoints to lead others in man's way of worship unto himself.
Think about it.
Without the knowledge of God in minds of man, man is free to be to be himself with no limit to his imaginations: for man will not restrain himself: for there is no limit to the evil that man will pursue, for the evil of man is the good of man in his own mind, which is to please himself while he polishes his own image in the presence of others: as he desires others to bow to him instead of him bowing to others: as he believes that men can be gods, too.
Out of his own imagination, man will cheat, and not call it cheating. He will steal, and not calling it stealing. He imagines wars and creates wars. He imagines peace treaties and makes peace treaties, then imagines ways to break the peace treaties.
His religion gives him a license to confess his sins, then return to his previous behaviors as they were before he entered the building of his religion as if he had never confessed at all, for his confession was only in his imagination. For outside the building he returns to the other page of his imagination: to the imaginary life that he was living on the other side until his next appointed time to enter the building.
Man lives there. Where? In his imagination. This is the world in which he was born and there he remains, doing as he pleases and in all the ways that he can imagine.
God? Where is God? Man knows not. He asks not. All he knows is what others teach him from his birth and from their imaginations.
A man without God will not be seeking God, but he will be seeking a religion because from living in his imagination he imagines that religion is the place where God abides.
A man of religion can say, however, that Jesus is in his religion, but the Jesus he believes is real is only an image of Jesus that has been cast in his mind from the god of his religion.
What, then, should man be doing?
He should be:
"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." (2nd Corinthians 10: 5)
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 38-39)
Think about it.
Without God in the knowledge of man, man can be whatever man imagines himself to be, which is an image of himself, which makes him a god without a rival as he will also arise to rule and reign over others in all the ways that he can imagine.
Think about it.
Everything that man has built upon the earth he has built out of his own imagination.
Man builds companies and creates jobs, and people work their jobs according to the outlines they are given from others out of their imaginations. As they work their jobs, they imagine the ways they will spend their money---some for housing, some for food, some for clothing, some for fun---and if there is not enough money to meet his desires he will imagine ways to reduce his spending and not go broke until his next payday.
Think about it.
Man created sports and sports arenas, and as the athletes perform, we imagine ourselves playing in their places and playing better than them while imagining the attention we are getting instead of them.
Think about it.
Man created religions out of his imagination and built the buildings where he gathers to worship in the ways that he has written---the rites, the rituals, the prayers, and even the men in priestly garments he appoints to lead others in man's way of worship unto himself.
Think about it.
Without the knowledge of God in minds of man, man is free to be to be himself with no limit to his imaginations: for man will not restrain himself: for there is no limit to the evil that man will pursue, for the evil of man is the good of man in his own mind, which is to please himself while he polishes his own image in the presence of others: as he desires others to bow to him instead of him bowing to others: as he believes that men can be gods, too.
Out of his own imagination, man will cheat, and not call it cheating. He will steal, and not calling it stealing. He imagines wars and creates wars. He imagines peace treaties and makes peace treaties, then imagines ways to break the peace treaties.
His religion gives him a license to confess his sins, then return to his previous behaviors as they were before he entered the building of his religion as if he had never confessed at all, for his confession was only in his imagination. For outside the building he returns to the other page of his imagination: to the imaginary life that he was living on the other side until his next appointed time to enter the building.
Man lives there. Where? In his imagination. This is the world in which he was born and there he remains, doing as he pleases and in all the ways that he can imagine.
God? Where is God? Man knows not. He asks not. All he knows is what others teach him from his birth and from their imaginations.
A man without God will not be seeking God, but he will be seeking a religion because from living in his imagination he imagines that religion is the place where God abides.
A man of religion can say, however, that Jesus is in his religion, but the Jesus he believes is real is only an image of Jesus that has been cast in his mind from the god of his religion.
What, then, should man be doing?
He should be:
"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." (2nd Corinthians 10: 5)
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 38-39)
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