“It’s only natural!” You’ve probably heard someone say that at some time in your life. The Encarta Dictionary presents the definition of natural as, “present in or produced by nature, rather than being artificial or created by people.”
The world in which we live is quietly doing away with any such definition. It only makes sense when you understand that our world has rejected the One who created nature, God. Rejecting God leaves one with accepting what man creates as being equally important to creation.
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For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. Romans 1:26 - 27 (NKJV)
The “reason” he was speaking about, was mentioned in the previous verse and refers to those “who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”
Rejecting God is rejecting the One who created nature and instead accepting man’s perversion of the natural.
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