Neville Goddard on Romans 1:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 1 in context

Scripture Focus

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23And 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 1:22-23

Biblical Context

People who boast of wisdom in Romans 1:22–23 fall into folly and turn the glorious, unchanging God into images fashioned after human and animal forms.

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage invites us to examine the self as consciousness. When you “profess to be wise,” you have aligned with a belief system—an image in the mind—rather than the living I AM that animates all. The “glory of the uncorruptible God” is the steady, eternal awareness within you; replacing that awareness with a mental image of a man, a bird, or a beast is worshiping appearances rather than Reality. Idolatry, in Neville’s psychology, is not distant superstition but a private habit of imagining you are the image you favor. To awaken, refuse identification with the idol and return to the perception of I AM as the source of all life. The fool is one who confuses his thought-formed image with truth; the wise find their true center by feeling the presence that remains unchanged while forms arise and pass. In revision, declare the identity as I AM and let the mind's images fade into the background as consciousness stands.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the I AM now; revise: 'I am not the thought I think, I AM the consciousness that thinks.' Then rest in the sense of I AM for a few minutes, letting images dissolve into awareness.