Romans 1 tells us that when we refuse to acknowledge God, our minds become “futile” and our hearts are “darkened” (Rom. 1:21) Theologians call this the noetic effects of sin, from the Greek word nous, which as we saw earlier means not just the mind but the core of our being. The Protestant Reformers taught that when we turn away from God at the core, then everything we do is affected, including our thinking.
