What, EXACTLY, according to the Bible, was the sins of Sodom?

Question

In the story of Sodom, in the book of Genesis, it never stated the sins of sodom. Obviously the entire city couldn't have been homosexual, or God wouldn't have needed to destroy them, as they would have all died out for lack of procreation. The Genesis story only stated that the sins were so great that God felt the need to destroy them. What were those sins?
Please don't tell me about the men of the city wanting to "know" the angles...
Lot, the 'hero' of the story, offered his own daughters to be gang raped by those same men. Why would he offer homosexuals two virgin daughters? Not to mention, Lot was supposedly the only righteous man in the city, but after the city's destruction, he had incestuous relations with both daughters. So, sexual perversion couldn't have been the reason... God must have known what was gonna happen when Lot and his daughters made it out of the city alive... I assume with that knowledge, if sexual perversion were the deciding factory, he...

He would have left Lot and his daughters in the city to be destroyed along with all the others.

With all that in mind, please tell me what the Bible says the sins of Sodom were?

I don't want to know what you heard it was... or what you have been told it was, I want to know what the BIBLE says it was.

So far, nobody has told me what the Bible says the sins were...

If you really believe all this, please tell me where, in the Bible, it says that.

I know we have all heard all this before, but I'm looking for SCRIPTURE, not rumor

I did not say they wanted to rape the angels.... I said don't tell me that... try again.

the long post has a very good understanding of the story, but I'm looking for the actual REASON god destroyed and entire city.
There is a scripture that states EXACTLY what the sins of Sodom were.

The specific sin DOES matter... it seemed important enough to God.

BTW, I didn't ask for every verse in the Bible that mentions greivous sin or the word sodom, I want to know EXACTLY what the ENTIRE city of sodom did that required that all men, women, and children had to be destroyed. What, in God's opinion is so bad to deserve that?

Sister Fire: Interesting scriptures... and there was a mention of lot and the city being sinful... but that's not a specific list of the sins

Everybody else who has listed numerous rumors of what the sins were didn't tell me book, chapter, and verse where the Bible said it... I know that's what preachers say... and that we have all been told to believe that, but if the Bible doesn't say it, then I don't believe it. Everything else is blasphemy because it is claiming God said something he didn't say.

Rufus: Saying "according to the bible" doesn't make it true. I know we have all been told that, where does the bible say that?

Mystic: facinating opinion, but you failed to tell me WHERE it says all that.

I know that is what people say, I want to know WHERE the BIBLE says it.

I can't believe out of all the us Christians here nobody knows where the Bible says EXACTLY what the sins of Sodom were.

I guess nobody really knows. LOL
After all the nonsense, this is the answer.
When it comes time for a "best answer," I will delete the question because nobody got it right.
Ezekiel 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.

16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

and all this time your preachers have been telling you that it was sexual imorality and homosexuality that God hates so much. Guess your preachers don't actually read the good book, huh?
Don't listen to what they have to say just because they say they have the answers. Read the Bible for yourself and learn what it says. If you don't KNOW what it has to say, you can be lied to. That is how "Satan" gets the saints, you know.

Answer 1

This is a bit long, so please bear with me... This is from a report I made while doing an independent study of the Bible, and I think you might find this to be very interesting.


Some consider the sin of Sodom to be same-gender sex, although we are not told in Genesis what Sodom's sins were, only that they were so great that God determined to destroy the city. On the evening before its destruction he sent two angels, in disguise as men, to the city to lead Lot and his family out early the next day. Hospitable Lot invited them to spend the night at his house. During the evening the men of the city surrounded the house and demanded of Lot that he bring the two men out so that they could [19:5]

King James Version: "know them."
Revised Standard Version: "know them."
New International Version: "have sex with them."

When Lot refused to bring his guests out, the men of the city were about to break his door down when the angels struck them all blind and the mob dispersed. The next day Lot and his family were led out of Sodom, and the city was destroyed by fire and brimstone from heaven.

The Hebrew verb used here, "yadha," "to know," is used 943 times in the Old Testament and only ten times clearly to mean "have sex," then it always means heterosexual sex. The word normally used for homosexual sex is "shakhabh." Many scholars believe that in Gen. 19:5 yadha means "know" in the sense of "get acquainted with" (the city's men may have wondered if these were enemy spies or they might have sensed the city's impending doom and been concerned with what these strangers were doing there) and have several arguments for this, including Sodom's being used as an example of great sin numerous times in the Old and New Testaments with nothing ever said about same-sex sex, and the context of Jesus' references to Sodom (Luke 10:10-13) which seems to imply lack of hospitality as the sin.

Other scholars think it was the common practice of showing dominance over and humiliating outsiders by forcing them to take the part of a (an inferior) woman in a same-gender rape.

Others think it means "have sex," and point to Lot's offering his two virgin daughters to the crowd if sex is what they want, if they will just leave his guests alone. If this is the right interpretation, it is clearly about violent, criminal, gang rape, something always condemnable.

Another thought is expressed by Religion Professor David L. Bartlett: "This story is certainly an unlikely starting point for a `biblical' understanding of sexual ethics. While the attempted homosexual rape by the men of Sodom is explicitly condemned, the offer by Lot to hand his two virgin daughters over to the violent and lecherous inhabitants of Sodom is related without a word of judgment."

Conservative theologian Richard Hays also says, "The notorious story of Sodom and Gomorrah--often cited in connection with homosexuality--is actually irrelevant to the topic."

Answer 2

The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were according to the Bible, those more terrible sins that could be made and that it was the cause that God destroyed them.
In that hypothesis: why not to think that the sins that were made by the sodomites were the worst which are indicated in the Bible, such as the lack of Love to the neighbor, the lack of Charity, the abuse to the slaves or free clerks, the lacks of respect on the norms and on the older, etc.... and mainly and in first places of the scale, the lack of a God's Love superior to which feels for any other thing, this means: love more to the spirituality that to the materiality; not to lie taking as witness to the own God, this means: not to try to deceive doing the maximum pressure to get it leaning in the points more vulnerable of who will suffer the deceit; not to be at rest in the holy days, this means: not to be given to oneself and the other ones the rest that the work requires to recover the lost forces and to dedicate a time to the less materialistic thoughts... ... ?
The Bible doesn't say anything concretely on this respect, but It says what the worst sins are, and It indicates that the sodomites were punished because they made them.
Maybe it is an enough one indicative, since the Bible doesn't say anything that it is more specific.

Answer 3

All the men were obsessed that all men be exactly alike, they did not go after angels, it was to them men.
The soul of Lot was vexed to the very core, he was attempting to change them and with wemon the effections are more natural to God fearing people 2Pet.6-9
[Matt.10:15]; Jesus said, they would repent faster than Jerusalem.
They were just on the wrong track with lawlessness or unlawful deeds as the scripture says, making everyone miserable.
Eleven tribes of Israel went up against the tribe of Benjamin in the time of Judges for the same thing, they almost wiped them out as Sodom and Gomorrrah was an example to the rest, that these unlawful deeds must be dealt with.
Judges 19:22; They did take his concubine and she died before morning. It is a grusome story, but he did get the attention of the Eleven tribes and they ended this.

Several places in the bible, the prophets remind the people of unlawful deeds by saying they are like Sodom and Gomorrah.

I do not want the sexual or religious practices of the majority forced upon me. These were taking advantage of everyone, brainwashing them to be unlawful.

We are required always to adhere to the law of the land, he discussed it with Abraham Gen.18:28-32; and if he found ten righteous. he would spare all.

Answer 4

According to the Bible, homosexuality and adultery were the sins of Sodom. It means that people loved or found pleasure in sexual activities which is absolutely against God. In other words, the people were totally against God and His commandments. Premarital sex is wrong. The people gradually involved in this type of activities which slowly increased to tremendous level even God could'nt stand to it.
When the angels came, the people only wanted them and not those two girls. You see, they were that wicked.
And Lot wanted to give his own girls to those wicked men and spare the men of God because he knew they were angels. He would have thought better to spare these men then his own dauhters.
In other words people were so against God. Except Lot and his family everybody were wicked and never feared God.
Sins like murder, cheatings, envy etc would had had been there but engaged a lot themselves in sexual activities. That is why , the Bible talks mainly about it.
Now I have tried to explain what I could. If this still is not what u r expecting for, sorry.I hope u understood it.

Answer 5

Sin is sin, it does not matter what kind it is. But in Sodom and Gomorrah, the committed all kinds of sins that you can imagine from infidelity, sexual immorality to stealing and killing. And this got out of hand just like the Israelites when they were coming out of Egypt , they started worshiping idles when Moses went to the hill Bring down the Ten Commandments. So is the same with Sodom, people kept on sinning and God wanted to teach us a lesson.

Answer 6

These passages which I didn't copy and paste may help you out. go to biblegateway.com and you can look up a topical search of Sodom and one of the entries is the wickedness of Sodom, it talks about them reveling in sin and helping evildoers, not to mention the sexual sins.

Genesis 13:13;
Genesis 19:4-13;
Deuteronomy 32:32;
Isaiah 3:9;
Jeremiah 23:14

Answer 7

you just described how the people of the city behaved. if a stranger showed up in town, the locals would want to rape them - man or woman. that was the city's morals. can you imagine visiting a place like that today? the sins of perversion and lack of care for other people would have spread into every facet of the society, so it was not one but many sins - the biggest being a lack of interest or respect in God.

Answer 8

Jordan1call
the main sin according to the three holy books
SIN OF Homosexuality
Than sin is no body say to the sinner you are a sinner you must
reject and stop doing this
In words
In act but..........act of authority not personal act
stooping every act of doing, re help doing , spreading such bad things and behavior.

Answer 9

Sorry, but the Bible doesn't say exactly.

http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichment/brush_excerpts/brush_20030924.shtml

That explains what people can infer from the text. And the story of Lot and the angels seems to the be the only one they have to go on in the Bible.

Answer 10

The information given about the sin is that it is "exceedingly grievous" which isn't very specific.

i.e "20And the Lord said, Because the shriek [of the sins] of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is exceedingly grievous,

21I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether [as vilely and wickedly] as is the cry of it which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."