It's not a "pull it out of context and use it to blast them evil gays for their perverse ways" prooftext --
The point was... They were not found to be with evil ways because they were gay. They were
made to be gay by God because of their evil ways of thinking.
Its a message in Romans 1, to those who can see below the surface, to note that homosexuality is not simply a sexual orientation. The sexual expression is only symptomatic of a way of evil thinking. Evil, because it desires to find ways to distort God's design and intent. So, God hands them over to become living distortions of God's intent and design to be found in themselves.
Now.. we also must be careful in rightly designating whom Romans 1 speaks of. It speaks of the militant aggressive type homosexuals. The ones that are apologists and evangelists to spread the acceptance of their perversity. It does not speak of those whom along the way that were forced and seduced into this form of sexual expression, as to condition them into a way of life. For there are those who do get saved and are able (willing) to be transformed by grace and God's truth, back to a proper orientation to both reality and their sexuality.
1 Corinthians 6:11
"And that is what some of you were.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by
the Spirit of our God."
That speaks of those who had been oppressed, victimized, and conditioned by the perverted Romans 1 type. These believers were able to become transformed out of their old way of conditioned homosexual life style into the life all believers are to have in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:18
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory,
are being transformed into his likeness with ever
increasing glory, which comes from the Lord,
who is the Spirit."
Anyone who claims to be a believer, and yet claims God approves of homosexual relations as long as they appear to be counterfeiting heterosexual marriage? Is perverting the character and nature of Christ.
1 Corinthians 5:9
"I have written you in my letter not to associate
with sexually immoral people."
Anyone that claims God now approves of homosexuality as long as its monogamous. Is like a prostitute who claims God approves because she gives a great deal of his money to charity to do good. I can not avoid the negative connotation involved with the topic, since the Word of God calls homosexual expression an abomination in God's eyes.
Paul stated that even though we are no longer under the law. The Law that would demand such as those to be put to death. Paul qualified them as being still worthy (in God's estimation) of death.
Romans 1:32
"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."
We are no longer under Law. Paul did not demand they be executed. That does not mean God's Law was originally created on whim. What God saw as sexual immorality and worthy of punishment, was not based upon whim. It was based upon God's holiness and righteousness.
In Christ, GeneZ
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