Romans 1

Shining One

Romans 1

18. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men 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.
20. For 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 men are without excuse.
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 mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
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 of 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 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 indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to 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 are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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.

Where the shoe fits. just wear it! LOL
Rex

daystar

Yeah, it's scary when our invisible ghost daddy spanks our butts because he refuses to accept that we are growing up and are able to think for ourselves.

lawrence

Hey Rex-

Did you ever put yourself in someone else's moccasins? BTW: Roman 1:29 -32 is a wonderful depiction of the Fundamentalist religious-right. I'm so happy you have been promoted to JUDGE.

Narkissos

The text indeed goes on:

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. You say, "We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth." Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?

If you don't get the logical connection ("therefore"), I guess you only read partially the "list of evils" in chapter 1.

tetrapod.sapien

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.

nice. i'm liking God right about now...

ts

Leolaia

Where the shoe fits. just wear it! LOL

You mean we're idol-worshippers who commit murder and the other things mentioned? Is that what you're saying?

kid-A

WOW !! These guys said the EXACT same thing!!!

Cygnus

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie...they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Hmm, sounds like xtians in general (maybe minues the faithfless part' faith is the scariest of them all)

Shining One

The text speaks for itself......
Rex

daystar

Cargo cults

I wonder sometimes if these people have(had) Holy Books and heated discussions and debates like the ones we see here and elsewhere regarding God and the Bible.

Were the white gods punishing them for their lack of faith when the cargo planes quit coming?

Romans 1

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