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To: Bob434

God destroyed two cities because of wanton fornication, a lot of which was homosexual in nature....making it exclusively homosexual may feel right but it is Biblically wrong to leave out the rest. Any idea of why it wasn’t in the 10 Commandments? Neither do I, bu tit wasn’t because God didn’t know it would occur - or was occurring at the time.


14 posted on 07/04/2018 3:54:07 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: trebb

[[bu tit wasn’t because God didn’t know it would occur - or was occurring at the time]]

Wow- really?

God gave very explicit rules about what would happen to homosexuals who lived in such wickedness, and the city was so full of such wickedness- among others, that He destroyed the cities

“Third, Jude cinched the matter in his allusion to the sin of Sodom. He said that Sodom and her sister cities had “given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh” (Jude 7). “Given themselves over to sexual immorality” is a translation of the compound word ekporneusasai, which combines the verb porneuo (to commit illicit sexual intercourse) with the preposition ek (out of). The attachment of the prepositional prefix indicates intensification, i.e., that the men of Sodom possessed “a lust that gluts itself ” (Thayer, 1977, p. 199). Their sexual appetites had been permitted to take them beyond the range of normal sexual activity. The idea of force or coercion is not inherent in the word. “Strange” refers to “one not of the same nature, form, class, kind” (Thayer, p. 254), and so pertains to the indulgence of passions that are “contrary to nature” (Barnes, 1949, p. 393)—“a departure from the laws of nature in the impurities practiced” (Salmond, 1950, 22:7). The frequent allusion to “nature” by scholars is interesting in view of the fact that Scripture elsewhere links same-sex relations with that which is “against nature” (Romans 1:26-27) or unnatural, i.e., out of harmony with the original arrangement of nature by God (e.g., Genesis 1:27; 2:22; Matthew 19:4-6).”

“Ezekiel, though mentioning the additional sins listed above, nevertheless referred repeatedly to Sodom’s “abomination” (16:50; cf., vss. 43,47,51,52,58). Moses connected “abomination” with homosexual activity (Leviticus 18:22).”

https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=7&article=614

No Soddom and Ghomorrah were destroyed because of evident sexual relations- most of which were homosexual in nature- God made homosexuality a capital crime which invoked the death penalty as stated by that article. It was such an abomi9nation (again, the strongest condemnation available to describe the horrendous sin of homosexuality and other such deviant sins) that God condemned those who lived it to death

While Soddom and G were not destroyed exclusively for homosexuality- homosexuality played a major role in why they were destroyed- Lot even told the men not to ‘do this wicked thing’ to the men


16 posted on 07/04/2018 8:57:56 AM PDT by Bob434
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