罗马书1: 24-27 Romans 1:24-27
所以，神任凭他们逞著心里的情欲行污秽的事，以致彼此玷辱自己的身体。他们将神的真实变为虚谎，去敬拜事奉受造之物，不敬奉那造物的主；主乃是可称颂的，直到永遠。阿们！ 因此，神任凭他们放纵可羞耻的情欲。他们的女人把顺性的用处变为逆性的用处；男人也是如此，弃了女人顺性的用处，欲火攻心，彼此贪恋，男和男行可羞耻的事，就在自己身上受这妄为当得的报应。So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
当我们随我们的忆念开始行羞耻的行为时，神有几个方法 对付我们：提醒我们的过错，他会时常这样做。他也可能会警告我们有什么后果；或者他会惩罚我们。如果什么都行不通， 他就会舍去我们，让我们任凭堕落在我们情欲下。 When we begin to do shameful acts that our heart desires, God could do a few things: He could remind us about our waywardness and many times he did. He could warn us about the consequences, He could punish us; and if all things failed, like in this passage, He simple abandons us to our sinful desires.
这里给了我们犯罪行动的两个例子：一）将神的真实变换为虚谎，去敬拜事奉受造之物，不敬奉那造物的主。 二）讲将顺性的用处变换为逆性的用处，欲火攻心，彼此贪恋； 女人与女人， 男人与男人，犯里同性念羞耻的罪孽，不是神所预想的计划，就在自己身上受这妄为当得的报应， 如爱滋病与其他性病。新约圣经很清楚的表明对同性念的立场。它不但是个犯罪的行为，而且是个对神创世律法直接挑战的行为。 Two examples of their sinful acts are quoted here: 1) Exchanging truth for a lie, worshiping created things than the Creator God Himself. 2) Exchanging the natural way of having sex with unnatural, women with women and men with men, doing shameful and sinful things with one another, those things that God did not intend to be done. What was the consequence? - Suffering within themselves the penalty they deserved, aids, HIV, and other sex-related sicknesses. So the New Testament was very clear in condemning homosexuality, as not just a sinful act but also one that directly challenges God’s creative law and order.
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