With regards to homosexuality and this same sex marriage thing, Romans 1
aptly describes the process of spiritual degeneration that happens to a
person to cause them to become a homosexual and destitute of the things
of God.
A list of sins begins in Romans 1:26 ti include:
1. heterphobic behavior - both male/male and female/female
2. being filled with all unrighteousness
3. wickedness
4. greed
5. malice
6. envy
7. murder
8. strife
9. deceit
10. malice
11. gossips
12. slanderers
13. haters of God
14. insolent
15. arrogant
16. boastful
17. inventors (of evil)
18. disobedient to parents
19. with no understanding
20. untrustworthy
21. unloving
22. unmerciful
23. approve of evil doers
And then in 2:1 (the concluding statement regarding this list of evils, of which only one is heterophobia) ..... "for you who judge practice (are presently practicing [present indicative active]) the same things."
Repentance (a change of mind which is not the same as "quitting our sin.") is called for and away we go in this great book --- Paul saying over and over that we are sinners and sinning and the blood of Jesus saves by faith separate and apart from the demand to be fully obedient to the law (commandments) of God.
Perhaps we should all take a long look at this list -- I bet that something on that list is a part of our individual sin problem -- if not on this list, perhaps on one of the other lists (of sin).
John
