I have heard a lot of people use the term reprobate in the past. I haven’t heard it in a while.
What does Christianity and the New Testament say that a reprobate is? I have been curios for a long time but I have been too lazy to look it up. Does anybody have some idea?
The word is used in Romans Chapter 1:26-32, "26 For this cause God
gave them up unto
vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30
Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful,
proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
31 Without
understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but
have pleasure in them that do them."
So, you can see that Reprobate mind is something that God gives free will to believe that they are not doing anything wrong when they commit sins against the commandments of God. Their minds change so that they can do what the righteous see as evil such as, Homosexual acts and behaviors. The LGBTQ use the idea that their affections relate to "love." But, in actuality, they do not. They relate to envy, proud boasters, haters of God and those that preach God. They believe in their minds they love one another when their actions and behaviors condemn the ones they claim to love, to hell. If a LGBTQ person actually "loved" someone, they would not be a part to entrapping that person into the bondage of eternal hell. Instead, they would be celibate and ask the person they "love" to also be celibate and not have sinful thoughts in their minds. Heterosexual plutonic friends do this with people of the same or different sex. We saw the outpouring of love in the NFL football game of the Bills and Bengals with Hamlin dying on the field. True love without sexual deviations. Even Paul taught it's best to be celibate than to lust after someone of the same or different sex. It's my belief that the "thorn" in Paul's side was same-sex attraction. But, Paul rose above the temptations and abstained from all sexual thoughts, acts and behaviors because of his conversion to Jesus Christ and His Gospel.
