The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For 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 His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to 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 new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
I'm glad you were open to it and it help change your mind. I used the creation portion of that passage. The only response I got back was the universe just was and since I cant answer questions with scientific facts I'm using the "God gap fallacy". It went no where and I feel like i shouldn't have wasted my time.
It’s never a waste of time. In any discussion of Christianity, it’s not you against them. It’s you for them. And really, it’s God for them, through you. You can’t lose. They may not seem to listen...but if you’re accurately representing the faith, it’s not a waste of time. Even if you’re just getting some practice in at making the arguments for when a better opportunity comes along with someone else.
What were their points that you “couldn’t” answer? Maybe I can help you out for next time.
Thank you for the encouragement. I know where ever Gods word goes it will prosper and that anything you do for the Lord isn't wasted. It just seems wasteful or discouraging to go around in circles with someone who isn't even slightly open to the idea.
Scripture makes it clear that the devil—Satan—is currently in charge of planet Earth.
1 John 5:19 ESV
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Even Jesus Christ Himself, shortly before His arrest and crucifixion, acknowledged Satan’s authority: “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30).
They thought Jesus would bring a wordy kingdom... he brought a spiritual kingdom instead leading to a physical kingdom later.... satan mimmicks god in everything he does.... the antichrist is a copy of Jesus, the antichrist lives, dies and is raised to life again just like Jesus.... the new world order is the Christ kingdom of the devil on earth, the antichrsit will perform miracles on earth just like Jesus.... the mark of the beast mimmicks the holy spirit.... you have to have the spirit to be born again.. you will have to have the mark of the beast to be apart of the kindgom of the antichrist.... you have to have the blood of Jesus to be saved... you may have to have the blood of the antichrist to be a part of his kindgom (new world order) how will you get his blood... maby through dna.. of a vaccine maby... and a mark to go along with it showing you got the vaccine... hmmm .. maby ... hmmm
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For 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 His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to 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 new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
This was a critical verse in my conversion from atheism.
I'm glad you were open to it and it help change your mind. I used the creation portion of that passage. The only response I got back was the universe just was and since I cant answer questions with scientific facts I'm using the "God gap fallacy". It went no where and I feel like i shouldn't have wasted my time.
It’s never a waste of time. In any discussion of Christianity, it’s not you against them. It’s you for them. And really, it’s God for them, through you. You can’t lose. They may not seem to listen...but if you’re accurately representing the faith, it’s not a waste of time. Even if you’re just getting some practice in at making the arguments for when a better opportunity comes along with someone else.
What were their points that you “couldn’t” answer? Maybe I can help you out for next time.
Thank you for the encouragement. I know where ever Gods word goes it will prosper and that anything you do for the Lord isn't wasted. It just seems wasteful or discouraging to go around in circles with someone who isn't even slightly open to the idea.
Go Roman's!
Scripture makes it clear that the devil—Satan—is currently in charge of planet Earth.
1 John 5:19 ESV
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Even Jesus Christ Himself, shortly before His arrest and crucifixion, acknowledged Satan’s authority: “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30).
They thought Jesus would bring a wordy kingdom... he brought a spiritual kingdom instead leading to a physical kingdom later.... satan mimmicks god in everything he does.... the antichrist is a copy of Jesus, the antichrist lives, dies and is raised to life again just like Jesus.... the new world order is the Christ kingdom of the devil on earth, the antichrsit will perform miracles on earth just like Jesus.... the mark of the beast mimmicks the holy spirit.... you have to have the spirit to be born again.. you will have to have the mark of the beast to be apart of the kindgom of the antichrist.... you have to have the blood of Jesus to be saved... you may have to have the blood of the antichrist to be a part of his kindgom (new world order) how will you get his blood... maby through dna.. of a vaccine maby... and a mark to go along with it showing you got the vaccine... hmmm .. maby ... hmmm
Amen!