Gentiles for their general infidelity." Boswell claims that the reference to homosexuality is merely used as an analogy to sin. Boswell's third claim is that, "what is even more important, the persons Paul condemns are manifestly not homosexual: what he derogates are homosexual acts committed by apparently heterosexual persons." Finally he states that, "there is, however, no clear condemnation of homosexual acts in the verses in question" (Boswell, 107-110).
Hays, on the other hand, attacks Boswell's claims. Hays states that these points are "exegetically insupportable" (187). In order to convince the readers of his own assessment Hays will perform another exegesis of Romans 1:26-27 and then in light of his exegesis he will in turn display to his readers the problems that he sees with Boswell's interpretation and how it is inadequate and insupportable. "Paul is not warning his readers that they will incur the wrath of God if they do the things
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