Their very lives are a blasphemous rejection of the Truth. Now, if you know anything about driving in Pittsburgh, you will recognize that people are not always as kind and considerate as they are here in southern Indiana. There was no left turn arrow and the lines were always so long that you might well sit through three lights before someone would be kind enough to let you through. I was somewhat shocked to see that the oncoming driver was speeding up to make my presumptuous left turn more obviously awkward. Turns out, it was a police car.
Ignorance is no excuse.
Those who live their lives apart from the knowledge of the truth are held no less accountable to its standards than those who know it well. Peter made it very clear to those Jews listening to him that they were guilty of Christ s blood and of rejecting the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They had not recognized Him to be the Messiah. Even though each of us is held responsible for the death of Christ, His death was at the same time a part of God s providence. That explains why the difficult truths of Scripture are not to be unnecessarily avoided in our conversation with the lost.