Why were these people destroyed? This is an honest question not one to mock you. I just don't understand it when christian gays say that homosexuality was not condemned in the bible, and I would like to hear your point of view.
2007-01-12 08:03:14 · 10 answers · asked by Christine5 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sodom and Gomorrah is not just based on the "homosexual" events that went on that night. Every form of corrupted sex was taking place. Why is it that Christians focus only on the "homosexual" acts from that story? Did you know that there are only 12 places in the Bible it speaks of men laying with men, four of those 12 places mentions the woman. How many times do we read about adultery in God's Holy Word? I think it is time Christians better read the entire message and stop extracting only what they want from God's Word. Its time Christians look at the person and not their sins. Remember, pointing a finger at someone else, you have three pointing back at your self.
Let us come together and pray with those from the lifestyle of homosexuality, just like we pray with those from the heterosexual lifestyle that practices (known and unknown) adultery.
2007-01-12 08:12:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The story has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. Just because an English word invented thousands of years later that is associated with gay sex sounds kinda like the name of one of the cities, people have invented an association between the two, but the King James Version includes no such association. Just as there were no references to homosexuality in the New Testament until later versions, when they started breeding like rabbits.
As I recall, the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah include a man who refused to hand over his daughter to a group of (presumably heterosexual) men to be raped, thus violating the laws of hospitality. Women are, after all, possessions not unlike cattle and gold, per the Bible, and you can even sell your daughter into slavery if she gets out of line.
2007-01-12 08:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by kena2mi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing like "christian gay".
1. Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,..."
Effeminate = a person that acts as a female in the homosexual intercourse
Abusers of themselves with mankind = a person that acts as male in the homosexual intercourse
And what is a solution?
1. Cor. 6:11
"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
It says, "such were", not "such are" some of you. In order for a homosexual person to become a christian he needs to get sanctified and justified - leaving that sinful homosexual practice and mindset, and the Lord will give a new life to him.
2007-01-12 08:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by CyberPastor 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, the men of sodom did not have sex with men, they had sex with women who their father lied and told them were virgins.
Second, both cities were said to have been destroyed for all manner of "evil" acts of the citizens including, but not limited to, working on the sabbath and eating prohibited foods.
And last, since no homosexual sex actually occurred in the story of Lot, it is hardly a condemnation of homosexuality, is it?
2007-01-12 08:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by jenn_smithson 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree with you. I think we should love the person but not their sin. There are many verses which condemn homosexuality.
In Genesis 19:1-29 the cities of Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because the people were so wicked. The men of the city wanted to have sex with other men. So God's judgement on the city was to destroy it by raining down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Leviticus 18:22 (speaking to men in Israel) "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable."
Leviticus 20:13 "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
Romans 1:26-27 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
1 Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders...will inhereit the kingdom of God."
1 Corinthians 6:13 "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."
1 Timothy 1:8-10 "We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers."
2007-01-12 08:08:56 · answer #5 · answered by cnm 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The story was taken from a sumarian text that predates the bible in any manner. It said the people were evil. It did not say that they were gay. Also, Lot gave his daughters to the mobs to be raped so that his guests would be safe. Not the type of man I would want as a father. Also, his daughters got him drunk and raped him, incest, just so they could have sex and have children. Not the best of families.
2007-01-12 08:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We have this in the Qu'ran as well
[027:054] And (remember) Lût (Lot)! When he said to his people. Do you commit Al-Fâhishah (evil, great sin, every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy) while you see (one another doing evil without any screen)?"
[027:055] "Do you practise your lusts on men instead of women? Nay, but you are a people who behave senselessly."
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(V.27:54) i.e. the town of Sodom in Palestine - the place where the Dead Sea is now. [See the Book of History by Ibn Kathir 'The stories of the Prophets']
God destroyed these people they were the first homosexual community.
2007-01-12 08:10:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN. You can not be gay and be a Christian.
Men having sex with men it is not natural and against all creation. Sex its a part of procreation not recreation.
What I don't understand is why they allow sexually un-stable people who can not have kids, to adopt.
2007-01-12 08:13:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Homosexuality is immoral and unGODly.
Jesus is the truth, the way and the life!
"Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One"
(Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad)
2007-01-12 08:08:13 · answer #9 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
You can't be gay and a Christian, for homosexuality is a sin, and to be a Christian you have to give up your sinful ways and follow Jesus.
2007-01-12 08:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 6⤊ 5⤋