Romans Chapter 1 is a meaty chapter and has been used or maybe misused for theology on gays and lesbians. Verse 26-28 is used, Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual 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 shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
This is the only chapter I read today and I read it over and over and tried to read it with new eyes and see what the scriptures are really saying. Did it say being gay or having lust? Could it be interpreted men gave up believing in God were inflamed with lust and not love? Is lust only sexual or do people lust after money, power, fame? I am still unsure of how to respond about the biblical viewpoint on this controversial subject.
I am not unsure of how to respond to gay and lesbian people. I am to respond with LOVE.
Below, Verses 28-32 speak to what a depraved mind is and it seems to be talking about a mind filled with hate. Love God, Love your neighbor.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they 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 have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 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.
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