Now we move from sexual sins to various ones related to hatred. Again this is a result of men rejecting the knowledge of God, so God gives them over to what they have chosen. Now in reading this section and preceding verses we need to realise that Paul is not saying everyone is like this all the time. He is not saying all of man's thinking is always futile, he is not saying that debauched sexual acts are all the man does, and nor is he saying slander, deceit murder etc are all that we do. He is highlighting the dark side of humanity. We were all created in the image of God, and we have all sinned. So in every person you find a mixture of remnants of the image of God and the results of sin, with the precise balance varying from one person to the next. But if we look at the world we see many of these things a lot of the time.
Moreover, not being content with just doing these things, men approve of those who do them. See how "clever" it is considered to tell lies, or to gain unfair advantage over others. Yet at the same time we know that such things are wrong. Again, we find a mixture in society. Society will lurch from being censorious one minute, to licentious the next. Yet at heart, all people have a sense of what is right and what is wrong.
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