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the text, we see that the people wanted
their own pleasures and their own way. They
rejected the truth of God. One writer says,
"Here is traced to practical tendency of
heathenism, not an innocent and harmless
system but as resulting with the most gross
and shameful acts of depravity.”
So what does it mean when the Bible
says that God gave them up? We'll find
similar expressions all through the Old
Testament and New Testament. It basically
means that this is God's judgment, a judicial
act. They're declared guilty and God abandons
them; in other words, He pulls away His
restraints and leaves them to their own
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