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Homosexuality equals a debased mind

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The Reformed Church of France, Paris, France (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROMANS 1:28 "Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done," Homosexual behavior, in particular, demonstrates the exchange of what is good and natural according to God's created order forth at which is evil and unnatural. Thus, it is an especially blatant form of idolatry, of telling the Creator that one will not have Him as Lord but will worship and serve the creature (Rom. 1:24-27).  This sexual twisting, however, is not the primal sin of humanity rather, it is the ethical outworking of the fundamental transgression, namely, the refusal to honor and thank God (vv.18-23).  Furthermore, homosexual behavior is not the only way our fundamentally idolatrous dispositions show themselves. There are innumerable ways in which idolatry bears unethical fruit. Romans 1:28, introduces the vice list Paul provides in Romans 1:29-31,