BELIAL, The Wicked Ruler

BELIAL, The Wicked Ruler

stating that every person involved in these sins should be put to death. Thank God for His mercy. There is salvation offered to all. Jesus died and shed His blood for sin. Those who repent and accept His sacrifices will receive deliverance and forgiveness of sin. However, the judgment of God does come to those who, through a hard and impenitent heart, will not repent (Romans 2:5). Regardless of what the secular media tries to tell us concerning homosexuality and lesbianism, these are perversions and are under the judgment of God. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Romans 1:26-27 The Phillips translation says, "disgraceful passions". The Knox version says, "passions which brought dishonor to themselves." The Conybeare translation says, "men with men working abomination." Webster's definition of abomination is "extreme disgust and hatred, loathing." To loathe means to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance, to detest. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28 Reprobate spirits also operate with homosexuality and perversion. The dictionary definition of reprobate is "rejected as worthless, morally abandoned, depraved." You will recall that the definition of Belial is WORTHLESSNESS. When something is reprobate it has been judged by God as worthless and, therefore, rejected. The Revised Standard version

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