altogether. Again, this is an assertion based on what for Paul is a self-evident reality. As he will elaborate in a later letter (Rom. 1:18–31), left to themselves mere creatures cannot find out the living God. The best they can do is to create gods in the likeness of created things, or, as so often happens, in their own distorted likenesses. The true knowledge of God, meaning not so much a proper apprehension of God’s being and character as a correct understanding of what God is doing in the world,