I don’t believe God removed an innate revulsion to engage in wickedness, people choose either to follow God and His Commandments or they choose to disobey Him. He gave us free will.
I don’t believe God removed an innate revulsion to engage in wickedness, people choose either to follow God and His Commandments or they choose to disobey Him. He gave us free will.
No doubt He gave us free will and we use that to follow or reject Him. What I'm talking about is something different, an innate sense of disgust at certain things or behaviors.
Think about it, why do some things smell bad to us? What would make our brains recoil in disgust at the smell of something (or someone) putrid whereas we enjoy the odor of a rose? That putrid thing is almost always bad for us and it's as if we know at a base (subconscious) level to avoid it. There's a built-in inhibition there (from God) that goes beyond merely knowing right from wrong. The same thing applies to behavior, there are some we recoil in disgust at versus those that make us happy when we see them.
The verses Fred quoted, "Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another." implies God did something that removed their God-given inhibitions. In the context of the text He did this as punishment for their wickedness.
I don’t believe God removed an innate revulsion to engage in wickedness, people choose either to follow God and His Commandments or they choose to disobey Him. He gave us free will.
No doubt He gave us free will and we use that to follow or reject Him. What I'm talking about is something different, an innate sense of disgust at certain things or behaviors.
Think about it, why do some things smell bad to us? What would make our brains recoil in disgust at the smell of something (or someone) putrid whereas we enjoy the odor of a rose? That putrid thing is almost always bad for us and it's as if we know at a base (subconscious) level to avoid it. There's a built-in inhibition there (from God) that goes beyond merely knowing right from wrong. The same thing applies to behavior, there are some we recoil in disgust at versus those that make us happy when we see them.
The verses Fred quoted, "Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another." implies God did something that removed their God-given inhibitions. In the context of the text He did this as punishment for their wickedness.