They know that God's law. "They" means the evil men and women just described. God's "natural law of right and wrong" is written in the minds of every human being! Compare Romans 1:19. Deserve death. The Gentile philosophers showed they knew this, by the things they wrote. Yet, not only. This is a deliberate act, because they know what God's law (of nature) says. Knowing the consequences, they sin, approve of others who do the same things, and actually taught people how to sin!!! Historians such as Tacitus, Horace, Seneca and Juvenal show that this picture of sin which Paul shows to us, is accurate in describing the Gentile world of the first century. This is conclusive proof of the mess man makes of things when he tries to escape God.

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