We Know What He Means

When we read the indictment of sin that Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote in Romans 1:26-31 (26 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: 27 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. 28 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; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:) we know what he means. We have no debate regarding the meaning of murder or covenant breaking. Backbiting and hating God are not in need of 21st century revisionism. Neither are the other sins listed there. Our individual responsibility is to believe what he has written and with care to avoid those sins in our lives or repent of them if they are a part of our lives already. Denominationally our responsibility is to declare that the scriptures are true, the activities listed here are sins, and to call to repentance those within (and without) our organizational fellowship to turn from those sins to live as God calls them to live.

You know what he means, don't you?