If you read the rest of what the apostate Paul said here, we can see he is suffering from cognitive dissonance:
"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things." ~ the apostate Paul
Here Paul admits that corruptible man, birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things, are apparently NOT good representatives of a good Godhead. I agree. However, this is dissonant from what was said earlier in the paragraph, about how the things that are manifest in nature DO represent the Godhead, so much so, that anyone observing them has no excuse.
Furthermore, if these things are foolish to use as representatives of a good Godhead, then anyone saying, or any book saying, that man is made "in the image of God" , qualifies to be exactly that foolish. Even worse, if any Godhead did make these things, including "corruptible man", and then called them "good" (a reserved word describing the Godhead), then that "god" (the god of this world), is itself some kind of fool, crafting these things in the first place, as if they at all represented any kind of "image" of the divine Good, let alone any kind of goodness. Paul tells us they are not good. So if they are not good as carved, or molten representatives, how are they good as any kind of representative?
Pointing to all these things as if they speak so clearly for the Godhead that they leave "no excuse", is not far from the proposition of pantheism, which suggests that all that is made is, or represents the divine Good. Quite the contrary, all that is made, in the material world, is actually what i would call reverse pantheism. That would be the total misrepresentation of any god that is actually Good. As such, the material world makes a mockery of any god that is actually Good.
This should be the most obvious interpretation of any observation of material manifestations. That is why i say, YOU have even less of an excuse for maintaining your interpretations. Yes, interpretations. Your interpretations expose your motives. It is just as easy to conclude that the god-of-this-world is not exactly your friend.
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One thing I am curious about, Good1. What planet are you from? In all your posts I have not been able to understand a single thing you are trying to say. I do not know whether you are a genius or are totally crazy or a little of both. Your brain is just on a totally different frequency than mine. Maybe the evilmouse or Overnight can explain you to me.