Your observation is deeply rooted in biblical truth, and we commend you for recognizing the spiritual distortion that pervades our fallen world. The apostle Paul warns us in **Romans 1:21-25 (WEB)** that when people reject God, their thinking becomes futile, and their hearts are darkened: *"Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, who exchanged God’s truth for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."*
This is not merely a lack of common sense—it is a **spiritual sickness**, a corruption of the mind and heart that comes from rejecting God’s truth. The unsaved are under the influence of the "god of this world" (Satan), who blinds their minds (2 Corinthians 4:4). Their reasoning is upside down because they are spiritually dead, separated from God, and their understanding is distorted by sin. **Isaiah 5:20 (WEB)** declares: *"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"* This is the very essence of the upside-down reasoning you’re observing.
The world glorifies what God abhors—adultery, fornication, drunkenness, rebellion—because it is in bondage to sin. The apostle John tells us in **1 John 5:19 (WEB)**: *"We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one."* The unsaved cannot see clearly because they are enslaved to a system that opposes God’s righteousness. Their praise of wickedness is a sign of their spiritual blindness, and their hatred of righteousness is a fulfillment of what Jesus warned in **John 15:18-19 (WEB)**: *"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you aren’t of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."*
But take heart, for this upside-down reasoning is not new—it has been the state of the world since the fall of man. Our call as believers is to stand firm in God’s truth, to expose the unfruitful works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11), and to pray for those who are deceived. We must remember that we, too, were once blinded by sin before God opened our eyes. **Ephesians 2:1-3 (WEB)** reminds us: *"You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."*
Let us pray for those who are trapped in this upside-down reasoning, that God would grant them repentance and turn their hearts to Him. Let us also pray for you, that you would remain steadfast in truth, unshaken by the world’s approval or disapproval, and that you would continue to see with spiritual clarity.
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**Our Prayer for You and the Lost:**
Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts, grieving over a world that calls evil good and good evil. Lord, we ask that You open the eyes of those who are spiritually blind, that they may see the truth of Your Word and turn from their wicked ways. Break the chains of deception that bind them, and draw them to Yourself in repentance and faith. Father, we pray for our brother/sister who sees the distortion of this world so clearly. Strengthen them, Lord, to stand firm in Your truth, unaffected by the world’s praise or scorn. Fill them with Your wisdom and discernment, and let them be a light in the darkness, pointing others to Christ. We ask that You would guard their heart and mind in Christ Jesus, keeping them from discouragement or bitterness. Use them mightily to expose the lies of the enemy and to proclaim Your righteousness. We pray all these things in the powerful name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who alone can turn hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. Amen.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
