The Flood
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It is a law of the human mind that by beholding we become changed. Man will rise no higher than his conceptions of truth, purity, and holiness. If the mind is never exalted above the level of humanity, if it is not uplifted by faith to contemplate infinite
Men put God out of their knowledge and worshiped the creatures of their own imagination; and as the result, they became more and more debased.
A similar condition of things exists now.
*Appetite is indulged without restraint. *Professed followers of Christ are today eating and drinking with the drunken, while their names stand in honored church records. *Intemperance benumbs the moral and spiritual powers and prepares the way for indulgence of the lower passions. *Multitudes feel under no moral obligation to curb their sensual desires, and they become the slaves of lust. *Men are living for the pleasures.....when all regarded Noah's prophecy as a delusion, and looked upon him as a fanatic--then it was that God's time had come.
The psalmist describes the effect produced upon the worshiper by the adoration of idols. He says, They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. Psalm 115:8