Originally posted by Nineveh
: sigh :
I object to HR misreperesenting what happened at Sodom, what part of this are you not understanding?
I've read the Bible, therefore I know that the sin of Sodom was not sexual orientation.
Gn 13:13 "Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD." But it does not say why.
In Gn 18 Abraham bargains with God that if only 10 good people could be found, the city would be spared.
Note that before ANYTHING happened at Lot's
THIS occured: "But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old,
all the people to the last man
bold emphasis mine
The Bible is full of references to Sodom and often compares contemporary situations to Sodom, condemning current situations and people for doing what Sodom had done.
NONE of the comparisons ever mention anything of a homosexual or homo-erotic nature.
These Scriptues are:
Deuteronomy 29:23; 32:32;
Judges 19 & 20;
Isaiah 1:9-11;
3:9; "Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it." partiality not sexuality.
13:19;
Jeremiah 5:1;
23:14; " But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomor'rah." adultery and lies, not homosexuality.
49:18;
50:40;
Ezekiel 16:49-50; "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them, when I saw it."
Zephaniah 2:9;
Amos 4:11;
Lamentations 2:6;
Hosea 11:8;
Wisdom 10:6;
19:13-17; "The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they(Egypt) justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they(Egypt) practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers. Others(Sodom) had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these(Egypt) made slaves of guests who were their benefactors. And not only so but, while punishment of some sort will come upon the former(Sodom) for having received strangers with hostility, the latter(Egypt), having first received them with festal celebrations, afterward afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights. They(Egypt) were stricken also with loss of sight just as were those(Sodom) at the door of the righteous man when, surrounded by yawning darkness, all of them tried to find the way through their own doors."
place names added for clarity. Problem: hostility, inhospitality--not a word about sexuality.
Sirach 16:8-11; ""He did not spare the neighbors of Lot, whom he loathed on account of their arrogance...." arrogance not homosexuality.
III Maccabees 2:5;
Revelation 11:8;
Matthew 10:7-15;
11:20-24;
Luke 9:54;
10:12; " "But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town." Inhospitality, not sexuality.
Romans 9:29;
II Peter 2:6;
Jude 1:7.
These passages list many wrongs: murder, hatred, hostility, lack of hospitality--but never homosexuality.
Many of these wrong behaviors attributed to Sodom are the same attitudes and actions demonstrated towards gay people in modern society and in certain Christian circles.
Now for the next question, why are you attending a church that openly promotes homosexuality?
