Why God's angry?
For the truth about God is known to us instinctively. God has put this knowledge in our hearts. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. We can clearly see his invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature. So we have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.
Yes, we knew God, but we wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And we began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that our minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wish, we became utter fools instead. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, we worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or simply human with mere talent that came from God. Some of us made even things that is worthless and pretend to be worship-able.
So God let us go ahead and do whatever shameful things our hearts desired. As a result, we did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. Instead of believing what we knew was the truth about God, we deliberately chose to believe lies. So we worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever.
"We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves." - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French mathematician, physicist and religion philosopher)
That is why God abandoned us to our shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men and women did shameful things with each other men, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty such as AIDS and any other diseases, is richly deserved to them.
When we refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned us to our evil minds and let us do things that should never be done. Our lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior gossip, slanderers, backstabber, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.We are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedience to their parents. We refuse to understand, break our promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. We are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet we go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, we encourage others to do them, too.
God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful wicked people who push the truth away from themselves.
Source from Romans 1:18-32
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