Was Sodom and Gomorrah?

Question

Really about Sin Sexual Acts?

Or was it about them being selfish and not giving the poor?

I am watching the History Channel ..............lol

I know it was Sexual Acts I can't believe the History Channel is leading people in a wrong direction

I always thought my son watcin this channel more then cartoon was a good thing but I should of watch it before now.

Answer 1

It was a city in which people were doing acts of sodomy and were living in a whole bunch of evil ways! God bless!

Answer 2

"Classical Jewish texts do not specifically indicate that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because the inhabitants were homosexual. Rather, they were destroyed because the inhabitants were generally depraved and uncompromisingly greedy. Rabbinic writings affirm that the primary crimes of the Sodomites were terrible and repeated economic crimes, both against each other and outsiders.

A rabbinic tradition, described in the Mishnah, postulates that the sin of Sodom was related to property: Sodomites believed that "what is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours" (Abot), which is interpreted as a lack of compassion. Another rabbinic tradition is that these two wealthy cities treated visitors in a sadistic fashion. One example is the story of the "bed" that guests to Sodom were forced to sleep in: if they were too short they were stretched to fit it, and if they were too tall, they were cut up.(compare Procrustes)

The Talmud also recounts the incident of a young girl (some sources say it was a daughter of Lot) who gave some bread to a poor man who had entered the city. When the townspeople discovered her act of kindness, they smeared her body with honey and hung her from the city wall until she was stung to death by bees. (Sanhedrin 109a) It is this gruesome event (and her scream, in particular), the Talmud concludes, that are alluded to in the verse that heralds the city’s destruction: "So Hashem said, ‘Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah has become great, and because their sin has been very grave, I will descend and see…"

Answer 3

SODOM AND GOMORRAH DESPISE GOVERNMENT
[ UNLAWFUL TO THE LAW OF THE LAND GOD AND MAN ].

If ten [ 10 ] righteous persons found nothing would be destroyed. Even angels did not have the right of self morals. Jude 7,8; Jude 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. Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. SODOM AND GOMORRAH MAJORITY HAD NO RESPECT FOR THE LAWS OF THE LAND. The way they treated the visiting angels is evident the had no respect for anyone. 2Pet.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; 2Pet.2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 2Pet.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;) 2Pet. 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 2Pet.2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. THERE WILL BE A JUDGEMENT DAY: Heb.9:27; 2Cor.5:10; Rom.14:9-12; 1Cor.6:3,4 [ Judges ]; Jude 6;
Matt.10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Matt.10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. JUDGEMENT DAY: Matt.12:36; Philip.2:5.9-12; Acts 24:15; John 5:26-29; Dan.12:2; Psm.49:14; 104:29,30; 115:15-17; 146:3,4;

Source(s):

KJV Bible 1611.

Answer 4

Sexual sin, When GOD was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham asked if He would spare his nephew Lot who was living in the city of Sodom. GOD said He would, He sent two angels to get Lot and his family out and after Lot welcomed the 2 angels into his house, some men of the city came and told Lot "Give us the visitors so we may have sexual relations with them." And after they were struck blind the men still tried to get into Lot's house. They stopped only after they tired of trying to find the door.

Answer 5

Yes, these cities were destroyed due to sexual immorality which is exactly what Jude (in the New Testament) says:

"And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness fo the judgment of the great day; AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND THE CITIES AROUND THEM IN A SIMILAR MANNER TO THESE, HAVING GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND GONE AFTER STRANGE FLESH."

Answer 6

Yeah the history channel is pushing it today.
Sodom & Gamorrah was about discourtesy, I guess, but
I do not get the big deal. So the men of Sodom wanted to know the traveling strangers: what's so wrong with wanting to met folks from an other place. It is a bit nosey, but Lot could have just made introductions and let it go at that. I do not get why he gave them his daughter. Was she meant to make introductions?

Answer 7

That's nothing according to Hollywood, when Stewart Granger played Lot, it was destroyed because of slavery.

My favorite was when some experts said that the red sea parted for Moses because of an earthquake in the Med. sea.

and that the blood in the Nile was red clay.


I always say the book is better than the movie.

Answer 8

They were wicked...It wasn't the sex acts themselves (the homophobes like to point to this as why homosexuality is a sin).

The men weren't homosexual, they were a rape gang. That night they weren't interested in his daughters, they wanted the cute new guys they just saw. (They were angels folks, I assume they weren't ugly).

The place was just nasty, kinda like the back alley's of Vegas, after dark...You know, the stuff they don't put on the travelogues.

It was a whole bunch of stuff, allegedly, that led to the smiting...

And YHVH can do some mean smiting.

The sex sin is what usually gets the American conservative Christian up in arms, since they are so repressed, so that's what the preachers dwell on, play to the crowd, ya know. Nothing gets a congregation feeling "holier than thou" faster than telling them how a party got busted.

It was alot of nastiness, not just the sex, just a part of it.

Answer 9

the gay men of Sodom are destroyed because of lacking hospitality and being selfish
lacking hospitality:they had been eager to "know" their guest's penis and anus.
being selfish:they wanted to have 1000 lovers so they spent a lot of money on their appearance such as clothing,made up,hairs...
there was no money left to help the poor

Answer 10

Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed because of their wickedness which included sexual immorality and homosexuality

Answer 11

yes

Genesis 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:

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.

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