18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
I have heard the question asked, "How can God send people to hell if they have never heard the gospel?" Here it is. You can see God within nature itself. This is also why evolution is so absurd. Intelligent design is EVERYWHERE yet man wants believe in evolution. This way he does not have to submit to an all powerful God and creator.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
We see this throughout human history. Idols in the form of man and all sorts of beasts. Today we worship pop stars, movie stars, political figures and our "stuff" this materialistic society has said we "need".
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
When man turns his heart from God he will turn to sexual sin. Sexual sin gets ever more hungry. It is never satisfied outside of God's design. Verses 26 and 27 clearly states that homosexuality is not natural. In fact it clearly calls it shameful. It also states that it is the result of turning one back on God. There is no such thing as a person "born" a homosexual.
This is one area I feel the church has failed homosexuals. Sexual sin is sexual sin. So many of our churches will help a teen boy or girl that disobey God and create a child out of wedlock. The church will come along side love and assist in getting those kids on the right path. Yet when a youth admits to homosexual desires they are treated like a leaper and cast out. God hates ALL sexual sin, but he loves the sinner. He loves them so much he sent Jesus to die for them. People who have fallen into homosexuality need love, understanding and help. If they don't get it from the church they will seek it elsewhere.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Read verses 28 to 31 and then watch the evening news or read the front page of just about any news paper. God has given those who reject him over to a depraved mind.
When I read verse 32 I can't help but think of our society as a whole. The more debase something is, the more is is revered in life. This ought not to be so.
God Bless.
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