The Knowledge of God is extinguished or corrupted, partly by ignorance, partly by wickedness.
Though the seeds of religion are sown by God in every heart, we find one in a hundred who cherishes what he has received and not one in whom they grow to maturity much less bear fruit in due season.
No genuine piety remains in the world.
Spiritual blindness is always connected with pride, vanity, and superstition.
To most, their conceptions of God are not formed according to the representations he gives of himself but by the inventions of their presumptuous imaginations.
The main thrust of this chapter is that men create God in their own image by ignorance, wickedness, and superstition. Human knowledge becomes the holy standard for living rather than the knowledge supplied by God. We rely too much on ourselves and our own experience rather than what is supplied by God.
At length, those who are led astray involve themselves in such a vast accumulation of errors that those sparks which enable them to discover the glory of God are smothered.
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