Turning the Truth of God Into a LieWhen discussing Romans 1:26-27 Rev. Dr. Mel White does not quote the text but merely comments on it thusly,
“the Apostle Paul describes non-Jewish women who exchange ‘natural use for unnatural’ and non-Jewish men who ‘leave the natural use of women, working shame with each other.’”
To begin with, we note that Paul states that he is writing about, “all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men” (1:18) and not just non-Jews.
Rev. Dr. Mel White quotes Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Smedes who states [he is mistakenly referred to as “Louis”]:
“The homosexuals I know have not rejected God at all; they love God and they thank God for His grace and his gifts. How, then, could they have been abandoned to homosexuality as a punishment for refusing to acknowledge God?…They did not change from one orientation to another; they just discovered that they were homosexual. It would be unnatural for most homosexuals to have heterosexual sex.”
Even though Rev. Dr. Mel White refers to two verses in the first chapter of Romans, let us look at a few more for the sake of context:
“Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed 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 toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error” (Romans 1:21-27).
It seems that Rev. Dr. Lewis Smedes was correct in an odd way. He claimed that the homosexuals he knows have not rejected God but it would seem that they did in fact know God but then did not glorify Him as God (as He is) but became vain and developed foolish, darkened hearts. In professing to be wise and explaining away the Bible’s teachings and the nature of sexuality, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man. This is why God gave them up to uncleanness and due to the lusts of their hearts they dishonored their own bodies by changing the truth of God into a lie. Thus, God gave them up to dishonorable affections which is when women changed the natural into the un-natural. Also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness.
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Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Smedes
The fact that homosexual fornication was occurring proves that these people had actually forsaken the true God and were worshipping a god that they had created for themselves-after their own likeness. This is what Rev. Dr. Mel White and the “Christian-Homosexual” movement are doing today, inventing a god who will never judge them but who will approve of what they decide for themselves as being right, moral, normal, and natural.
Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Smedes adds to the homosexual activist’s attempt to explain away the extremely clear teaching in Romans by stating that homosexuals do not change from being heterosexuals into homosexuals.1 This may be why he employs the term “most” in his conclusion when he reasons thusly, “It would be unnatural for most homosexuals to have heterosexual sex.” The problem for him, and many others who try very hard to confuse this text, is that it clearly states that when men leave that which is natural, which is their sexuality towards women, they burn with lust toward one another. Males with males is the shameful act of changing a natural act to that which is inherently unnatural. It is God who determined what is natural and not individuals nor what we think we have been since birth (or cognizance). When did God establish this natural order, which He proclaimed to be very good? In the creation and His placing together in the garden one man and one woman-this is natural.