Now, let's see, What The Bible says about The Doctrine of Sin--
Romans 1;18-32--[Turn].
When God gives people up, He does not simply permit them, to stray from Him.
Romans 1;24 speaks of God's Positive Withdrawal.
God withdraws all restraint.
Romans 1;24--''Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.'' ''WHEREFORE''=''AND SO.'' Here We have Paul's blameless logic.
''GOD GAVE THEM UP''= God gave them over, to their own power--
These people had already deserted God, Who merely left them, to their own self-determination and self-destruction, part of the price of man's moral freedom,
The withdrawal of God's Restraint sent men deeper down.
Three times, Paul says, God gave them up-[24, 26, 28]--not 3 stages, in the giving over, but a repetition of the same withdrawal.
The words sound to us, like clods, on the coffin, as God leaves men, to work their wicked Will.
''that their bodies should be dishonoured''--Christians have a new sense of dignity, for the body-
I Thessalonians 4;4--''That everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour.'' I Corinthians 6;13--''Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the LORD, and The LORD for the body.''
Heathenism left its stamp on the bodies of men and women.
Romans 1;25--''Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever amen.'' ''Changed''=''Exchanged''--for exchanging trade--What a bargain they made, The Truth of God, for The Lie;
is the price of Mythology.
''They worshipped the creature rather than the creator''--even when placed side by side.
All God has to do, is to let The Sinner alone, and he will drink the dregs of sin, of uncleanness and lust.
Man's Natural Heart is only evil continually, and the first stage of apostasy, or God giving up The
Sinner, is his abandonment, to the natural forms of Sensuality.
Romans 1;26-27-[Turn]. ''Unto vile passions''= Passions of Dishonor.
Natural Lusts degenerate to Unnatural lusts, when the restraint, is taken off.
''That which is against Nature''--The Degradation of Sex is the result of Heathenism [The loss of God in the life of Man].
Verse 27--'' burned in their lust''--inflamed with their lust.
Romans 1;18-32--[Turn].
When God gives people up, He does not simply permit them, to stray from Him.
Romans 1;24 speaks of God's Positive Withdrawal.
God withdraws all restraint.
Romans 1;24--''Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.'' ''WHEREFORE''=''AND SO.'' Here We have Paul's blameless logic.
''GOD GAVE THEM UP''= God gave them over, to their own power--
These people had already deserted God, Who merely left them, to their own self-determination and self-destruction, part of the price of man's moral freedom,
The withdrawal of God's Restraint sent men deeper down.
Three times, Paul says, God gave them up-[24, 26, 28]--not 3 stages, in the giving over, but a repetition of the same withdrawal.
The words sound to us, like clods, on the coffin, as God leaves men, to work their wicked Will.
''that their bodies should be dishonoured''--Christians have a new sense of dignity, for the body-
I Thessalonians 4;4--''That everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour.'' I Corinthians 6;13--''Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the LORD, and The LORD for the body.''
Heathenism left its stamp on the bodies of men and women.
Romans 1;25--''Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever amen.'' ''Changed''=''Exchanged''--for exchanging trade--What a bargain they made, The Truth of God, for The Lie;
is the price of Mythology.
''They worshipped the creature rather than the creator''--even when placed side by side.
All God has to do, is to let The Sinner alone, and he will drink the dregs of sin, of uncleanness and lust.
Man's Natural Heart is only evil continually, and the first stage of apostasy, or God giving up The
Sinner, is his abandonment, to the natural forms of Sensuality.
Romans 1;26-27-[Turn]. ''Unto vile passions''= Passions of Dishonor.
Natural Lusts degenerate to Unnatural lusts, when the restraint, is taken off.
''That which is against Nature''--The Degradation of Sex is the result of Heathenism [The loss of God in the life of Man].
Verse 27--'' burned in their lust''--inflamed with their lust.
''The recompence which was meet''=the recompense which was due.
Romans 1;28--God gave them over, because they did not like, to retain God in their knowledge.
The Ancient, Wise Heathen knew that morality is dependent upon religion, whereas Today's
Average Religionist doesn't even think so.
This means, The One, who does not approve of God enough, to receive The Knowledge of Him, into his inner heart and life, and rule over him as Sovereign, that God turns him over, to his un-approving mind, to common things, that are morally held in abhorrence by people, not reprobated.
Then verses 29-32 describe the condition of the reprobate heart.
''Being filled with all unrighteousness''--Unrighteousness is Injustice;
Righteousness is JUSTICE.
In other words, they break every commandment in The Law, and have no shame, or, sense of guilt, or, FEAR OF GOD.
Let's look at the list of Injustices;
FORNICATION [Referring to the seductor, or seductress, who tempt to sin];
COVETOUSNESS [Greed, Grasping after another's possessions];
MALICE [The Spring of Ill-will, and desire to injure];
Full of ENVY [Envy makes one sick of another's health];
Envy is The Fountainhead of MURDER.
STRIFE [Or Contention];
DECEIT [Fraud];
MALIGNITY [Which is trearcherous conduct, or habit of the mind];
WHISPERERS [Gain-sayers, Defamers, Revilers, False Accusers];
HATERS OF GOD;
INSOLENT [Over-Bearing;said of those, who perpetrate criminal outrage];
PROUD [Self-Conceited. who conduct themselves arrogantly above others];
BOASTERS [Those who brag about bringing others down];
DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS [Apostasy from the piety and affection due to parents is a Fountain of Corruption].
Romans 1;28--God gave them over, because they did not like, to retain God in their knowledge.
The Ancient, Wise Heathen knew that morality is dependent upon religion, whereas Today's
Average Religionist doesn't even think so.
This means, The One, who does not approve of God enough, to receive The Knowledge of Him, into his inner heart and life, and rule over him as Sovereign, that God turns him over, to his un-approving mind, to common things, that are morally held in abhorrence by people, not reprobated.
Then verses 29-32 describe the condition of the reprobate heart.
''Being filled with all unrighteousness''--Unrighteousness is Injustice;
Righteousness is JUSTICE.
In other words, they break every commandment in The Law, and have no shame, or, sense of guilt, or, FEAR OF GOD.
Let's look at the list of Injustices;
FORNICATION [Referring to the seductor, or seductress, who tempt to sin];
COVETOUSNESS [Greed, Grasping after another's possessions];
MALICE [The Spring of Ill-will, and desire to injure];
Full of ENVY [Envy makes one sick of another's health];
Envy is The Fountainhead of MURDER.
STRIFE [Or Contention];
DECEIT [Fraud];
MALIGNITY [Which is trearcherous conduct, or habit of the mind];
WHISPERERS [Gain-sayers, Defamers, Revilers, False Accusers];
HATERS OF GOD;
INSOLENT [Over-Bearing;said of those, who perpetrate criminal outrage];
PROUD [Self-Conceited. who conduct themselves arrogantly above others];
BOASTERS [Those who brag about bringing others down];
DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS [Apostasy from the piety and affection due to parents is a Fountain of Corruption].
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