In the face of divine revelation, humanity's failure to trust and obey God is a pervasive theme. The father's desperate cry in Mark 9:24, "I believe; help my unbelief," highlights the tension between faith and doubt. According to 2 Timothy 3:7, some will be "always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth," while Romans 8:7 notes that the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God. The apostle Paul warns in 2 Timothy 3:1-4 and 4:3-4 that such disbelief will characterize the latter days, leading people to follow false teachers and reject sound doctrine.
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But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,