Was everybody guilty in Sodom and Gomorrah?

Question

or does God accept a certain amount of collateral damage,(children etc.).

Answer 1

as the story goes, nobody but Lot and his kin were innocent, but I doubt whether infants were counted and I'm certain women were not counted, since in biblical times they were not considered much.
So according to the way these ancients saw it nobody was innocent, but recounting it today would probably yield a lot of innocents.

Answer 2

Everyone was guilty except for Lot and his two daughters.

There was no collateral damage. I recommend reading Genesis 18:22-33 that speaks about God's judgement against Sodom and Gomorrah. The main point of that passage of scripture is that "it is unthinkable of [God]...to put to death the righteous man with the wicked one".

Children are affected by the course of their parents, and parents are warned that their bad course in life can affect their offspring unto the third and fourth generation. (Ex. 20:5, 6) Parents are commanded to instruct their children in God’s way, and those in Sodom and Gomorrah who refused to heed the divine instruction and warning brought destruction upon themselves and their small children. (Deut. 6:6, 7; Eph. 6:4) According to justice God can leave such children dead, for, as Ezekiel showed, all die in their iniquity. (Ezek. 3:17-19; 33:1-6) Parents should remember that their wrong course unfavorably affects their children and may bring their offspring to destruction at Armageddon, just as a right course on the part of parents may put their small children in the way of preservation during Armageddon and opportunity for eternal life in the new world to follow.

God values all life. In fact, not only does God value human life, but he also values the life of animals (Matthew 10:29-31). Therefore God wants all, young and old, infants and the elderly to attain salvation. (2 Peter 3:9)

Answer 3

Short answer: no.

Long answer: Not everyone had to be guilty in Sodom and Gomorrah for 'God' to decide to make an example of them. In other words, simply a preponderance of wickedness (anything over 51% of a person's actions) was cause enough for them to be destroyed.

As for the aspect of collateral damage, a OT scholar would be more akin to proscribe to the saying "Kill them all, let God sort them out." In other words, 'guilt by association' would be reason enough for them to excuse any 'collateral damage' that might have occured.

However, this goes against Jesus' own teachings

"Are not two sparrows sold for next to nothing? Yet not a single sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent."

In other words, God can/will allow a momentary injustice to occur, the innocent to suffer along with the guilty, but such 'suffering' becomes, for lack of a better term, credit-worthy for the innocent.

In other words, if God bulldozes your house, God pays fair market value, and more, for it.

Answer 4

Everyone except Lot and his family.

Children in places like Sodom and Gomorrah were probably better off being with God, because if they were spared they'd have probably grown up to be wicked just like their parents, given the environment they were in.

You're looking at this from the perspective of children always automatically being innocent and without sin, which isn't always the case. The bottom line - God knows what He is doing.

Answer 5

Well, following the Bible, every single person was guilty.

But on what facts are based the story of Sodom and Gomorrah ?

Like Jericho ? Or Noah's Ark and Gilgamesh Odissey ?

Answer 6

Well, according to the bible... god must be responsible for an awful lot of collateral damage.

That flood was supposed to have wiped everyone out - including the children - and animals (not the ones that went two by two - the rest of the species).

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So, working on your theory phantom, would you murder all the babies in Afghanistan just in case they grew up to support the Taliban?

Nice guy!

Answer 7

God would of saved Sodom and Gomorah if they had preached the word like God told them to.

So the lesson is, listen to God, if he tells you to do something and who knows, you may save many lives.

*H*

Answer 8

According to the Bible, we are all guilty. In that sense our present existence is an act of God's grace.

Answer 9

god's all for collateral damage actually. i mean, he did flood the whole damn world, even though there's no possible way EVERY single person it in was evil

Answer 10

eum.. by the way, wat happened to the island did it was it really flooded??