God's Wrath Against Mankind
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
We learn from St. Paul that man needs God...Man can be wicked and suppress the truth...
God can be clearly seen by looking around and seeing the world and what is in it...The creation of the world and its intelligent design, shows that there is an Intelligent Designer behind it all...Men can look around and see the sky, the sun, the moon, the grass, the seasons, the beauty and complex design of all nature and things...We are without excuse when we look around and think on the creation (of the designed world)...We are either here by God, who created us, or we are here by the circumstances of random events...St. Paul makes it clear how he feels about this and how he tells us we are without excuse, with the creation and God's plan...The divine design of the smallest of things, such as the molecule, atom to the stars and universe(s) above point to a Divine Designer...
Sin entered the world with Adam and Eve and has separated us from God...Sin makes us harder to find God, because of this separation...Sin separates...God gives us free will and man has made idols and worshipped other Gods...Other sinful desires of sexual impurity are discussed by St. Paul...The lusts of man and woman are strong...We are responsible for what we choose to do with our desires and feelings...