Lovekr07
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THE Truth, Part 2
'The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For 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 people are without excuse. For 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. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 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. 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. 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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 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.' (Romans 1:18-32)
https://www.bible.com/bible/111/ROM.1.18-32
What I am seeing here is that everyone is without excuse. God has made it clear through His creation that He is undeniably real. Every person has a choice whether they want to accept this Truth or not. Many have traded it for a lie and in so doing, God has given them over to a depraved mind and that is a means to an end as far as His wrath is concerned. Basically, a person destroys oneself just by choosing not to acknowledge Him and by accepting a lie. That may even suggest that every person knows deep down in their consciences and hearts that the way they have chosen is wrong. It is through faith in Jesus Christ that we are cleansed from a guilty conscience. I think that is why before we are saved, we know in our hearts that something is wrong even though the world says that it is not. God gives each person a conscience.
Not only are we to reject those practices that go against the Word of God on a personal level, but we are also not to accept any part of that way of thinking. There is not “my truth vs your truth”. There is only one Truth and that is Jesus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus!! Amen!!
'The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For 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 people are without excuse. For 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. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 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. 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. 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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 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.' (Romans 1:18-32)
https://www.bible.com/bible/111/ROM.1.18-32
What I am seeing here is that everyone is without excuse. God has made it clear through His creation that He is undeniably real. Every person has a choice whether they want to accept this Truth or not. Many have traded it for a lie and in so doing, God has given them over to a depraved mind and that is a means to an end as far as His wrath is concerned. Basically, a person destroys oneself just by choosing not to acknowledge Him and by accepting a lie. That may even suggest that every person knows deep down in their consciences and hearts that the way they have chosen is wrong. It is through faith in Jesus Christ that we are cleansed from a guilty conscience. I think that is why before we are saved, we know in our hearts that something is wrong even though the world says that it is not. God gives each person a conscience.
Not only are we to reject those practices that go against the Word of God on a personal level, but we are also not to accept any part of that way of thinking. There is not “my truth vs your truth”. There is only one Truth and that is Jesus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus!! Amen!!
