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To: american colleen
How do you interpret this from the New Testament?
Is this clear enough?

Romans 1:19-32
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them,
because God has shown it to them.
20 Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power
and divine nature,invisible though they are, have been
understood and seen through the things he has made. So
they are without excuse;

21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God
or give thanks to him,
but they became futile in their thinking,
and their senseless minds were darkened.

22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools;

23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-
footed animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts
to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions.
Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men, giving up natural
intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one
another. Men committed shameless acts with men and
received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God
gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should
not be done.
29 They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,
covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 They know God's decree, that those who practice such
things deserve to die—yet they not only do them but even
applaud others who practice them.

82 posted on 03/14/2005 6:33:27 PM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla
Heya Dave, I hope you read my post #27 where I indicated I copied and pasted #26 and that I didn't agree with what the author wrote.

I think me and you are on the same page. There is no way you can advocate homosexual behaviour in light of scripture and tradition not to mention common sense and moral law.

85 posted on 03/14/2005 8:09:14 PM PST by american colleen
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