Unrestrained Human Nature: ALWAYS THE SAME

"Let us compare the two pictures drawn by Paul, the one of the iniquity of ancient heathenism:

Romans 1
²⁸ 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;
²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹ Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

And the other of the iniquity of the last days, even among those who have “a form of godliness”:

2 Timothy 3
¹ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³ Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
⁴ Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
⁵ Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
⁶ For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
⁷ Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

We can see that these two pictures are exactly alike. Human nature, unrestrained, is the same in all ages. 

Whether in the days of Christ, 

or two thousand years before, 

or two thousand years after; 

whether manifested in the inhabitants of Canaan, 

or in the inhabitants of the United States, 

it is always the same.

 

It is for this very reason that the Bible fits men, wherever on the earth it may find them. It is a book not for one tribe only, nor for one class, nor for one nation, but for the human race. And it is the only book in the world that is." A.T. Jones