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To: Dr. Thorne

No.

Your explanation is psychology, and not true.

Rom 1:21

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Rom 1:24

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28

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;

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This sin is the result of PRIDE and IDOLATRY ....

it’s NOT the result of what you mention.


14 posted on 07/11/2012 7:29:04 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Verses 25 and 26 are KEY...


33 posted on 07/11/2012 8:13:15 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: fishtank

The two systems of thought are, at least in principle, complementary, not contradictory. Theology says that God gives them over to vile affections. Psychology seeks to understand how the vile affections get there.


35 posted on 07/11/2012 8:21:52 AM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook.)
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