PetroniusMaximus wrote: “Read Genesis chapter 19 carefully and compare it to the current situation. There is something about the “andromen” that exceeds a simple desire to live an ‘alternative lifestyle.’”
Since Genesis is my favorite book of the Bible, I’ve re-read it many times.
The problem Lot was having is not that the Sodomites were andromen. If that was his problem he would have offered them young males, rather than his daughter, to get them to leave the angels alone. That he offered his daughter is scriptural proof that the crime of sodomy is not same-sex pairing but rape.
“The problem Lot was having is not that the Sodomites were andromen”.
50sDad said it better that I, but what I am getting at is that in the Genesis passages the crowd of Sodomites takes on a life of it’s own. It’s almost like a ravenous beast. It won’t listen to reason and it won’t be thwarted until it gets what it wants - the satisfaction of it’s lust. If violence is necessary, then so be it.
“Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them... “
This is the collective nature of the sodomites/andromen. That same nature is evident in their collective actions in the current day and may become more so as events progress.
The Bible describes that collective nature as demonic.