Freewill religion or the Man of sin religion will as stated earlier will always have a Pretentious view of Man !
This is True, because even though scripture, God's word declares man in a helpless lost condition, dead in sin, and only evil continually, without the ability to do good, yet men boast of their freewill which denies our total depravity and inability.
The scripture says none doeth good, no not one Ps 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
This is repeated in Rom 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
This is describing all mankind as being born sinners by nature.
Scripture says here that man is filthy by nature, unprofitable , useless or unserviceable.
That word filthy in Ps 14:3 means became morally corrupt. All men by nature are born helplessly morally corrupt, even our religious efforts in that state are corrupt and as filthy stinking rags before God Isa 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
But you know, man by nature cannot and will not submit to this Divine Declaration.
None says the Divine Verdict of fallen man, doeth good. None is exempt ! God is saying, there is absolutely none that acts rightly or that does well.
The WNT
All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right--no, not so much as one."
And so because the freewill religion or the man of sin religion does not accept what God says [about mankind] in His word, The Man of sin opposeth what God says:
2 Thess 2:4
4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
This word opposeth is the greek word antikeimai
to be set over against, opposite to
2) to oppose, be adverse to, withstand
It means to be contrary, withstand the Truth in God's Temple, in the Church, or what supposes to be the Church, the pillar and ground of Truth.
Whenever we oppose God's Truth, we are in fact exalting ourselves over God !
Freewill religion or philosophy is contrary to sound doctrine ! 1 Tim 1:10
10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
You see, man's freewill in the matter of Salvation and Justification
before God is contrary to and opposes sound doctrine of the scripture.
So man of sin religion has a pretentious view of man !
