Man rejected God, so God rejected man. Man decided he wanted to set his own standards, to live his own way, so that is precisely what God gave to us. So God gave man over to sexual impurity, and sexual impurity was rife in the Greek and Roman world. Man lives under God's protection, even the most ardent atheists actually lives under God's protection. But from time to time God removes that protection and lets man receive the consequences of his choices, and the results are horrific.
Man exchanged the truth for a lie. So why are sexual sins so prevalent in what Paul says here? One is no doubt the prevalence of them in Paul's day, but there is more to it than that. Sexual sins are different from other sins. In 1 Cor 6:12-19 Paul says they are different, because they affect our innermost being. When the church talks about sexual morality the worlds gets on its high horse asking why the church is not concerning itself about world poverty instead of worrying about what people do with their bodies? This is the most stupid of arguments, and is stupid on two levels. First, the church does not say we need to focus on sexual sin at the expense of helping the poor, it is not saying it won't bother feeding the poor because it is going to have a debate on sexuality. Secondly, ask yourself this. How much unhappiness and pain is caused by relationships going wrong, by people being exploited for sex, by people being unfaithful in sex, by people taking advantage of each others in sex? What we "do with our bodies" does matter.
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