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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 1:26-27 - Given Up To Homosexuality Part 1

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Romans in Outline No. 22

1.1  GOD GIVES MEN UP TO DEGRADING PASSIONSRomans 1:26

The second of three

GIVE UP TO UNCLEANNESS — Romans 1:24

GIVE UP TO HOMOSEXUALITY — Romans 1:26

GIVE UP TO DEPRAVED MIND — Romans 1:28

2.1  God ceases to restrain

2.2  God lets a society become what it wants to be

1.2  THE SPECIFIC FORM

2.1  Exchanging the natural for the unnatural

2.2  Consumed with lust

2.3  The homosexual (revisionist) twist to the passage

3.1  THE ARGUMENT:

HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE ONLY UNNATURAL FOR THOSE WHO BY NATURE (PHUSIS) ARE HETEROXUAL

3.2  THE REBUTTAL

4.1  The only natural sexual relationship the Bible recognizes is a heterosexual one

Genesis 2:21-24

Matthew 19:4-6

4.2  If the acts are only unusual, they still may be immoral

2.4  Other passages on homosexuality

3.1   Genesis 19:1-11

3.2   Leviticus 18:22; 20:13

3.3   1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:9-10

1.3  THE CONSEQUENCES

2.1  The loss of identity

2.2  The forfeiting of the inheritance of the Kingdom of God1 Corinthians 6:9-11

2.3  The contacting of AIDS and other diseases

THE RESULT OF NATURAL LAW

2.4  The change in thinking

Romans 1:26-27

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

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