May God have mercy on US.
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One way that I interpret this is the homosexuality is a sign that someone has rejected God and, therefore, God has “given them over” to their sinful lusts.
There are a number of other passages that make it clear to me, but I cannot fathom that any Christian can read this and conclude that the homosexual lifestyle and homosexual marriage even should remotely be sanctioned and practiced by any Christian denomination.
This interpretation and conclusion is without malice on my part. God loves them. But it really boils down to this: God is sovereign and incapable of sin and HE makes the rules, not man,
Things aren’t falling apart, they are coming together.
Excellent Scripture - this is the progression that God lays out. What He does is let us experience the full effect of our actions.
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The Progressive Movement vs Christianity.
Man vs God.
Articulated by Paul here in chapter 1 of Romans.
The beauty of this passage is in verse 20, where Paul notes that man sees the obvious, with his own eyes, and knows in his mind what is truth and what is false, what is right and what is wrong, and nevertheless chooses to reject truth, goodness, and God.
How else can one explain the wide acceptance and legitimization of man on man butt sex, and girl on girl amorous sexual coupling.
How else can one explain the wide acceptance of the view that men and women are equivalent creatures, not only in plumbing but in the makeup of mind and emotion.
How else can one explain the wide acceptance of the view that man has modified the climate, and must act to change the climate again.
Paul speaks of the Progressive movement here in Romans 1. The Secular, Progressive, Humanist movement. Which, at its core, is the effort to reject God and replace God with man and self.
Not just in the areas of human sexuality, but in all manners of humanity and nature.
God save us.
So that is why, to me, the most important verse in this section is verse 32. It speaks to those that know the scriptures:
and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
If you’re going to quote one of those rewritten Bibles you need to put that in the title of your post or a disclaimer.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
If you read Romans 1 carefully, it seems that not only is homosexuality a sin but also part of the punishment for sin. There is nothing “gay” about the homosexual lifestyle but instead it is a path of misery in this life and the next.