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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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. Furthermore, since they did
not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God [God is
beyond that], He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
what ought not to be done. (Romans, 1:24-28)

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the king-
dom of God [paradise]? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexu-
ally immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes
nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor
drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the king-
dom of God [paradise]? (1 Corinthians, 6:9-10)

If He [God] condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by
burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is
going to happen to the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a right-
eous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless
men (for that righteous man, living among them day after
day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless
deeds he saw and heard) if this is so, then the Lord knows how
to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous
for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire
of the sinful nature and despise authority. (2 Peter, 2:6-10)

For certain men whose condemnation was written... have se-
cretly slipped in among you... Though you already know all

this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered His people
out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe... In

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