My comment was only about Buck's assertion that God is to blame for not permitting some people to find him. Logic categorically rejects that notion and the parable of the prodigal son confirms that rejection. Anyone who has studied that parable in depth will easily see the father was patiently waiting for his son to make a move towards him and then the father comes rushing to him. That has been my own personal experience as well.But that is not what is at issue. THings like perversion, stealing, adultery, murder -- which God gives everybody conscience to answer to
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12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them "