Men ^did not <b><i>like</i></b> to retain God in their knowledge^.   This means that they once knew there was a God but chose to disavow Him because they did not like Him.  <p>Every human being is born with a sense that there is a SupremeBeing.  <p>On what basis does a person decide to reject the notion of God?  <b class=highlight><i>Rebellion</i></b>.  <br> Every other explanation they offer is just cover for the fact that they hate God and wish that He did not exist.   Such are children of Satan - the first rebel.  <p>This is why repentance is needed to come to God in Christ Jesus.  One must see themselves as a rebel in opposition to the very One who created them and loved them enough to die for their reconciliation to Himself. <p>Those who persist in their rebellion against God spiral down eventually getting to the point where they are unreachable by the Truth. <p>Such end up with ReprobateMinds because they knowingly and willfully reject the Truth, Jesus Christ. <p>There are two major results of this: -> they do things which are self-destructive -> the HolySpirit ceases to draw them.