"As they ceased to recognize the Divine, they ceased to regard the human. Truth, honor, integrity, confidence, compassion, were departing from the earth. Relentless greed and absorbing ambition gave birth to universal distrust. The idea of duty, of the obligation of strength to weakness, of human dignity and human rights, was cast aside as a dream or a fable. The common people were regarded as beasts of burden or as the tools and the steppingstones for ambition. Wealth and power, ease and self-indulgence, were sought as the highest good. Physical degeneracy, mental stupor, spiritual death, characterized the age. Ed 75.1"
"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"
The EGW passage describes a societal decay resulting from a departure from recognizing the Divine, mirroring the consequences outlined in Romans 1:28. Both passages connect a rejection of God with moral and ethical decline, including a loss of compassion, integrity, and a rise in greed and self-indulgence.