against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Rom. 1:18). That description of the inner processes by which people deny God’s existence as well as their own spiritual need reads like modern psychology. R. C. Sproul comments: “To translate Paul’s analysis of man’s response to the knowledge of God into contemporary categories of psychology is not a difficult task.… The basic states of man’s reaction to God can be formulated by means of the categories