Section 3
in resurrection. In a sense, Noah was the head of a new race. However, not long afterward the descendants of Noah also gave up God at Babel in Genesis 11. When they exchanged God for idols, the forsaking of God was complete. The giving up of God was not completed before the flood; it was completed afterward by the de scendants of Noah, who fell into idolatry.
Fornication followed idolatry. After Babel, Sodom emerged. Sodom was a city of fornica tion. In the English language we have the words sodomy and sodomites, which signify the most shameful acts of fornication. The inhabitants of Sodom violated their own nature and caused great confusion. At the time of Genesis 19, the human race, which had exchanged God for idols, had fallen into sodomy. As a result, every kind of wickedness burst forth.
This was the background of Romans 1. This chapter was written according to the history of the human fall: disapproving of holding God, ex changing God for idols, falling into fornication, and producing every kind of wickedness.
During the terrible process of the fall, mankind exchanged God for idols and completely aban doned Him. In return, God also forsook man kind. God seemed to say, "Since you have given