What was the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Stand to Reason ^ | 05/11/2010 | Greg Koukl

[DManA]

The nature of the sin is less important than the CONSEQUENCES of that sin.

[GSP.FAN]

They did’nt recycle?

[ConorMacNessa]

Sodomy, wasn't it?

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[SeekAndFind]

Sodomy, wasn't it?

Why not Gomorhy?

[ConorMacNessa]

Good question.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"If one looks hard enough, he can find "biblical" support for reincarnation, Eastern religions, Jesus as a guru, divorce for any reason, and flying saucers"

That's not true. Only if they take parts out of context & intentionally twist the words of God just as Satan did

[Jedidah]

No particular sin exists alone, but rather in the company of encouraging companions.

The root of Lot’s problem was that he chose to live among an evil and idolatrous people, none of them “righteous.”

“Righteous” is a broad term. Trying to narrow it down to a particular sin is impossible. There is no doubt, however, for any serious student of the Word, that homosexuality (to foreverafter be known as “Sodomy”) was the last straw.

[WayneS]

Does this tie in to the apparent islamic belief that you’re not a homosexual if YOU are the one “doing it” to the other guy?

[SeekAndFind]

The nature of the sin is less important than the CONSEQUENCES of that sin.

Speaking of consequences, I believe one of the consequences is sin will drive you into personal and COMMUNAL perversion.

It starts with a few and then suddenly the entire community gets infected.

I was jsut reading the story of Sodom and Gommorah again and it struck me how perverted the people in that city have become. Angels disguised themselves as men and visited Lot and his family. A group of men in the city, knowing that these strangers were there banged on Lot's door and DEMANDED THAT THEY BE TAKEN OUT SO THAT THEY COULD RAPE THEM ( yes RAPE THEM )! What sort of perverted people would think this way ?

And notice Lot's response -- he actually valued hospitality to his guess above his own daughters telling these men to rape his daughters instead !! ( this is the nephew of Abraham mind you !). These men actually REFUSED to rape the women and INSISTED that the strangers be brought out. Luckily, these "men" were actually angels and they were able to blind these perverts.

Note that this is not the first time such peversion occurred. Reading further in the Bible, we have the Book of Judges ( one of the rated R books of the Old Testament ).

In the last three chapters, we have a Levite and his wife planning to go back to their tribe and having to stop one night in a town in the tribe of Benjamin. They were offered lodging by a man. Guess what ? IT HAPPENED AGAIN, in Israel at that !! The men of the town demanded that the Levite be brought to them so that he can be raped.

I'm not going to go into all the gory ( yes I said gory ) details of the story, suffice it to say that this incident caused a civil war in Israel and almost caused the extinction of the tribe of Benjamin.

If one thinks that sexual perversion is only pervasive in today's Hollywood culture, all one has to do is read the Bible to conclude that perversion has always existed from the beginning of history.

[ArrogantBustard]

Yes, and I bet that the author of this piece is a sodomite.

[WayneS]

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them."

Seems pretty cut a dried to me.

I CERTAINLY do not interpret that to mean that the "men of Sodom" were inviting the newcomers out for a night of drinking Harp Ale and throwing darts at the local Irish pub.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: No particular sin exists alone, but rather in the company of encouraging companions.

Speaking of encouraging companions, I believe one of the consequences is sin will drive you into personal and COMMUNAL perversion.

It starts with a few and then suddenly the entire community gets infected.

I was jsut reading the story of Sodom and Gommorah again and it struck me how perverted the people in that city have become. Angels disguised themselves as men and visited Lot and his family. A group of men in the city, knowing that these strangers were there banged on Lot’s door and DEMANDED THAT THEY BE TAKEN OUT SO THAT THEY COULD RAPE THEM ( yes RAPE THEM )! What sort of perverted people would think this way ?

And notice Lot’s response — he actually valued hospitality to his guess above his own daughters telling these men to rape his daughters instead !! ( this is the nephew of Abraham mind you !). These men actually REFUSED to rape the women and INSISTED that the strangers be brought out. Luckily, these “men” were actually angels and they were able to blind these perverts.

Note that this is not the first time such peversion occurred. Reading further in the Bible, we have the Book of Judges ( one of the rated R books of the Old Testament ).

In the last three chapters, we have a Levite and his wife planning to go back to their tribe and having to stop one night in a town in the tribe of Benjamin. They were offered lodging by a man. Guess what ? IT HAPPENED AGAIN, in Israel at that !! The men of the town demanded that the Levite be brought to them so that he can be raped.

I’m not going to go into all the gory ( yes I said gory ) details of the story, suffice it to say that this incident caused a civil war in Israel and almost caused the extinction of the tribe of Benjamin.

If one thinks that sexual perversion is only pervasive in today’s Hollywood culture, all one has to do is read the Bible to conclude that perversion has always existed from the beginning of history.

[achilles2000]

John Boswell was a sodomite “academic” at Yale who deliberately set out to confuse this issue. This analysis is only “news” to liberals who are trying to break down resistance to acceptance of the sodomite lifestyle. Oh, yes, Boswell finally got it in the end. He died of AIDS.

To put a fine point on it, Boswell’s work isn’t scholarship; it is sodomite propaganda of the most destructive sort.

Here you can learn a bit about how academic sodomites have tried to undermine biblical teaching about the sodomite lifestyle: http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BL04F01

[WayneS]

Yes.

I think that might be why the author put the word “biblical” in quotes.

[DManA]

It does seem pretty clear to me what the sin of the Sodomites was. It amuses me to watch the pretzels liberals tie themselves into to show it was something else. My favorite is that the sin was a lack of hospitality.

[WayneS]

...got it in the end...

Good one!

[ArrogantBustard]

Oh, yes, Boswell finally got it in the end.

[ snicker ]

[SeekAndFind]

The New Living Translation uses the following words which modern English speakers can understand :

But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house. 5 They shouted to Lot,

“Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

[RichInOC]

Fascinating. So if you said in jest that the Sodomites wanted to do yada yada yada with the angels, you really wouldn’t be wrong.