From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 19:19:47 EDT
John W Burgeson wrote:
>
> On 28 May Debbie wrote: "Rom 2:1 takn in light of Romans 1, which
> includes the classic injuction against homosexuality ..."
>
> Sigh. That injunction is NOT against homosexuality, which is a condition,
> not an action.
>
> It is a description of what happened to people who were wilfully
> disobedient. And, it seems, their disobedience did not include sexual
> acts.
>
> Sorry for slow response -- out of e-mail tioch during June.
Your 1st statement is correct - at least plausible. The 2d, however, is
quite misleading. What is indeed described in Romans 1:18-31 is the basic sin of
idolatry which afflicts all people and the sinful consequences. I.e., as Paul describes
it, sin against the 1st Commandment leads to all the other sins which - in the listing
Paul gives - includes homosexual acts. Of course this doesn't mean that all people
commit such acts, any more than all murder, gossip, &c.
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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