Originally posted by zanza:
This is why the world is the way it is today.
Romans 1:18-28
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the
godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their
wickedness,
19since 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 men are without
excuse.
21For 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.
22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to
look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their
hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with
one another.
25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and
served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever
praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their
women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27In 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.
28Furthermore, 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.
29They 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,
30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they
invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32Although 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.[b]
Note 26-27[/b]
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