ANCHORED APOLOGETICS
Week 1 — What’s Really Happening?
Romans 1:18–32

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This single page is designed to evolve week-to-week. It includes the Romans 1 “drift cycle,” a generational timeline, and a simple way to submit your questions for upcoming sessions.

Week 1 — Romans 1 Drift Cycle

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Idea: Truth is not absent. God makes Himself known.

ESV reference: Romans 1:19–20

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Romans 1:19 — “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.”

Romans 1:20 — “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”

Idea: The issue is not “no evidence,” but resistance.

Apologetics removes suppression; it doesn’t create truth.

ESV reference: Romans 1:18

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Romans 1:18 — “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;”

  • Truth → Lie
  • Creator → created things
  • Gratitude → Autonomy

Worship disorder always precedes cultural disorder.

ESV reference: Romans 1:22–25

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Romans 1:22 — “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”

Romans 1:23 — “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.”

Romans 1:24 — “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”

Romans 1:25 — “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

Sequence: Disordered worship → disordered desires → darkened thinking → social fragmentation.

ESV reference: Romans 1:26–32

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Romans 1:28 — “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”

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Compressed pattern
Reject → Exchange → Disorder → Confusion

Week 1 — Generational Drift Timeline (U.S. Context Example)

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Core shift: Reason elevated above revelation.

Effect: Truth becomes detached from God as ultimate authority.

Generational seed: “We can know truth without divine authority.”

Core shift: Man becomes the measure of all things.

Effect: God moves from public authority to private belief.

Generational seed: “Human flourishing is the highest goal.”

Core shift: Truth becomes subjective.

Effect: Morality becomes preference instead of principle.

Generational seed: “If it feels right, it’s right.”

Core shift: Self-definition becomes central.

Effect: Authority structures weaken; the self becomes primary.

Generational seed: “No one can define you but you.”

Core shift: Identity becomes ultimate authority.

Effect: Disagreement becomes harm; fragmentation rises.

Generational seed: “My identity defines reality.”

Bridge line: Every generation inherits the assumptions of the one before it. Guardrail: This isn’t about parties; it’s about ideas. Ideas outlast elections.

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Personal Anchor: I am not afraid of questions. Truth does not fear investigation.

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Problem of evil • Exclusivity of Christ • Conversational tactics