“For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”
— Romans 1:21–22
Paul is describing the exact modern spirit you are talking about:
Those who trust human intellect over divine order.
Those who worship knowledge instead of Wisdom.
Those who congratulate themselves for “understanding” what they never created.
This is the same tone Jesus confronted when He refused to silence His disciples in Luke 19.
Luke 19:39–40 (ESV)
And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
The Pharisees — the intellectual and religious elite of their day — believed they were “protecting truth,” when in reality they were suppressing it.
The world wants silence from believers because praise reminds it of what it has tried to forget:
that there is a Creator, and we are not Him.
When man places himself at the pinnacle of knowledge, he becomes blind to the very Source of existence — God Himself.
So Christ reminds the Pharisees, and us:
If truth is suppressed by human pride, creation itself will testify.
The stones are not metaphors — they are witnesses.
Matter itself worships because all of creation knows what man refuses to admit:
God is not a theory — He is Reality.
