Morality is something every person believes in, as these things are written on our hearts.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of 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 over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
But here's the thing, from our perspective, we may believe we are "moral" but because we do not love truth, but instead love what we want to believe as truth, we see ourselves, and others and our responses and actions differently than what they would be if we truly did love truth more than what we want to believe. Everyone finds what they need to believe as they want:
2Th 2:10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. 13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
Romans 1:18-32 covers that passage from the perspective of those who choose to be Atheists. Rom. 10:1-3 covers those who believe in a God but not in Christ, going to scripture for the purpose of justifying what they want to believe about God, and Mat chapter 7 covers those that believe Jesus is their Lord, God and Savior and are doing everything the true Christians of that day did, but will hear, "depart from Me ye who work iniquity ..."
The point being, if you do not receive a love to the truth so as to be saved, but love what you want to believe "as" truth instead, your sense of "morality", even understanding that you are worthy of death for practicing such things, will be completely tainted.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of 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 over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
But here's the thing, from our perspective, we may believe we are "moral" but because we do not love truth, but instead love what we want to believe as truth, we see ourselves, and others and our responses and actions differently than what they would be if we truly did love truth more than what we want to believe. Everyone finds what they need to believe as they want:
2Th 2:10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. 13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
Romans 1:18-32 covers that passage from the perspective of those who choose to be Atheists. Rom. 10:1-3 covers those who believe in a God but not in Christ, going to scripture for the purpose of justifying what they want to believe about God, and Mat chapter 7 covers those that believe Jesus is their Lord, God and Savior and are doing everything the true Christians of that day did, but will hear, "depart from Me ye who work iniquity ..."
The point being, if you do not receive a love to the truth so as to be saved, but love what you want to believe "as" truth instead, your sense of "morality", even understanding that you are worthy of death for practicing such things, will be completely tainted.
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