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I agree with Josh. The clear teaching from Paul is that all mankind knows the Law of God but supresses that truth in unrighteousness. He can, nevertheless, not escape it fully for it is written on his heart. Dispensationalism understandings of the Scriptures suffer from the idea that until God had actually spelled something out in the Ten Commandments, that mankind did not have the Law revealed to them.
Yet, this cannot be the case. When Cain murdered Abel, Cain didn't say to God: "What? You never said murder was wrong? What are you talking about?"
The entire earth was judged in a flood for their wickedness.
Thus, we do understand that mankind can never claim "I didn't know that was wrong" at the judgement throne of God. I believe Judgement will be a great unveiling where those who have practiced suppression will suddenly have all pretense removed and they will be utterly guilty for not only their suppression but for their wanton act of committing sins that they knew, in their natures, was displeasing to God.
But, let's face it, on this Earth we're good at suppressing. We even have difficulty agreeing on things revealed to us and this speaks to the necessity, for the sinful human heart, to have the Law spelled out. I don't believe the Law delivered on Sinai differed in substance with anything that preceded. Even in the ceremonial aspects, we only see a more specific codifying of the idea of the shedding of blood for sin.
But, as Paul demonstrated, the Jews failed to even keep the Law after they could no longer claim that they didn't know. In other words, it's one thing to supress the truth but another to supress the truth when you have the Law on stone tablets. Yet, leave it to the sinful human heart to do just that.
In the end, as Paul notes, both Jews and Gentiles fail but Jews are doubly-guilty because they've not only suppressed the Law written on their hearts but the same Law they had written down for them and agreed to keep.
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