{"id":11245,"date":"2021-07-03T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T14:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=11245"},"modified":"2021-07-04T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:08:50","slug":"rom-311-do-humans-seek-for-god-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/rom-311-do-humans-seek-for-god-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Rom 3:11 &#8211; Do humans seek for God or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> The Bible teaches that we do and should seek for God (Acts 17:27; Mt. 7:7-8; Jer. 29:13). However, Paul says that \u201cnone seek for God.\u201d Likewise, Jesus taught, \u201cNo one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him\u201d (Jn. 6:44). However, he also taught, \u201cAnd I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself\u201d (Jn. 12:32). Are these passages of Scripture contradictory?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> While no one naturally searches for God, we can supernaturally search for God through the aid, prompting, and conviction of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 12:32; 16:8). While no one seeks for God on his own, we are not on our own: God draws us to himself. Consider the previous verse: \u201cThere is none righteous, not even one\u201d (v.10). On our own, no one is righteous. However, we are not on our own. As Paul notes in Romans 4, Abraham was credited as righteous because of his faith.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s purpose in writing this section of Romans (1:18-3:20) is to show that all people are under the fair and impartial judgment of God (3:9). His purpose is to show that \u201cno flesh will be justified in His sight\u201d (3:20). Paul is saying, \u201cIf it were up to man\u2019s effort alone, no one would seek or find God. That\u2019s why God is just in judging all men everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (Rom 3:11)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: The Bible teaches that we do and should seek for God (Acts 17:27; Mt. 7:7-8; Jer. 29:13). However, Paul says that \u201cnone seek for God.\u201d Likewise, Jesus taught, \u201cNo one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him\u201d (Jn. 6:44). However, he also taught, \u201cAnd I, if I am liftedContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}