When people turn their back on God's principles and truth they begin groping in the dark and have to start inventing their own "solutions" to their problems in their personal lives as well as in society and the nation. Israel got a stern warning about this from God through Hosea, "Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;… My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you... And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." (Hosea 4:1,6)