ATONEMENT DOES NOT BEGIN WITH MEN DECLARING THEMSELVES WISE!

Isa 29:15  Woe unto them that seek deep to hide the counsel of the MOST HIGH, and their works are in the dark, and say, Who sees us? and who knows us?  16 Surely your turning of things upside down is esteemed as the potter's clay!  Shall the work say of him who made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him who framed it, He had no understanding?

Isa 45:9  Woe unto him who strives against his MAKER!   Shall broken potsherds strive against potsherds of earth?   Shall clay say to him that fashions it, What are you making? or thy work, say The SHAPER has no handiwork?  10  Woe on him that says to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?  11 Thus says the HOLY ONE of ISRAEL his MAKER, ASK of ME MERCY that you may know things to come concerning MY sons, and concerning the work of MY hands, INQUIRE!   Or dare ye presume it is YOU who COMMANDS ME?  12  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even MY hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I COMMANDED. 13  I will raised up a man in righteousness, and I will direct all His ways: He shall build MY CITY!   He shall preach the Gospel to LET GO MY CAPTIVES, not for a bribe or reward, saith the HOLY ONE of hosts!  (Isa.61:1-5, 40:1-<27-41:4>-<21-42:4>-43:15)