Posted on 05/15/2004 9:00:00 AM PDT by AskStPhilomena
Bump.
There was homosexuality everywhere in the Middle East. Sodom was singled out for destruction for violating core tenants of human kindness to strangers.
Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They conveniently leave off the following
Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
I agree we can say they were inhospitable if you want to call wanting to sodomize visitors could be called inhospitable
Gen 19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Gen 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Sodom because the key word for abominations and God tied it to the unfaithfulness of Israel and their sin .
Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
The Jews knew and understood the sins of Sodom . They did not try to sugar coat them
2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds;)
Unlawful is not selfishness or thoughtfulness. Those sins follow hedonism they are not the totality of it
Hear Paul in Romans speak to the sin
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 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:
Rom 1:27 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.
Rom 1:28 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;
Jude explains further
Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jud 1:8 Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
This can not be taught in Canadian Churches because of a new law. That nation will be brought for judgment before God some day for that
1Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Not according to the rest of the bible it wasn't. Jude 7. Leviticus. 1 Corinthians etc.
The law was given that people who engaged in homosexual behavior were to be killed. There was no atonement for this, you killed them on sight. I personally believe that God's reason was so the infection wouldn't spread
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