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To: nonsporting

Convenient is an archaic word for suitable. God didn’t create man with the purpose of acting like the devil. There’s much more in there than just homosexuality.


56 posted on 11/08/2011 7:50:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Convenient is an archaic word for suitable. God didn’t create man with the purpose of acting like the devil. There’s much more in there than just homosexuality.

Many sinful behaviors are mentioned, but sexual corruption is a key step in the chain of depravity and marks a critical transition. Here's the succession of events described in Romans 1:

  1. Hold the truth in unrighteousness (1:18)
  2. Hearts are darkened (1:21)
  3. Became fools (1:22)
  4. Idolatry (1:23)
  5. Sexual depravity (1:24)
  6. God gives them over to sodomy (1:26)
  7. God gives them over to a reprobate mind (1:28)
  8. They are filled with every kind of wickedness (1:29)
  9. They approve of others who do this evil (1:32)

God reveals the descent into evil. At some point he ceases striving to save and actually hardens the hearts of people, giving them over. They become "reprobate", rejected. According to Romans 1:26 God has rejected the sodomite.

63 posted on 11/10/2011 4:43:23 AM PST by nonsporting
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