Featured Does God judge and comdemn Sodom For Sins, or for gay lifestyles?

It seems to me that pride was the main issue here. After all, it's mentioned more than once. "Had pride" and "they were haughty". AND they did detestable things. In Jude, it says they practiced immorality. But it doesn't say they were destroyed because of it.

Sodom was destroyed because of general wickedness, not because of one sin. Yes, that sin is mentioned to show how wicked they were, but not to be construed as the only reason they were destroyed.

 

How do we know which was primary?

Look at the Ezekiel passage - Ezekiel 16:49-50
Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

Pride
Fullness of food and abundance of idleness - but did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy
Haughty
Abomination

This was the iniquity of Sodom

 

Excellent - I am surprised there is any question when the scriptures are so clear

 

Do you have scriptural evidence?

 

There simply is no Scriptural basis for you to keep saying this. If there were no righteous people, are we to assume that every man, woman and child in that town were gay and indulging in gay sex and not a single person there was committing nongay fornication and adultery?

When things get out of control, it's usually everything as was demonstrated before the flood.

In part. But there is no Sciptural basis to say that was the primary reason or the only reason.

 

That's why I keep saying there is another motive because Scripture is surely clear on this.

 

Her post shot you down, dude. You're in denile, and I'm not speaking of a river in Egypt.

 

Look at the nature of the destruction. Rewind to the days of Noah, and fast forward to A.D. 72 in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Take gander at the frescoes being restored.

(Posted before I was done.)

Now look at the nature of the judgments on pride and idolatry. What city in Canaan did God through nature destroy? Look at the pride and idolatry of Israel and Judah and the manner in which it was judged.

 

You obviously see something that no one else does. Her post complements what I mentioned from Scripture. There were no righteous people there and that clearly complements the additional Scripture that Scarlett posted.

But like I said, an ulterior motive is at hand.

 

You mean beside Jude?

In your activity here, yes.

 

Just one verse that says God primarily judged Sodom for homosexuality please?

Ezekiel specifically says exactly why Sodom was judged. Where specifically does it list homosexuality.

No one denies that was one of the many sins, just looking for any indication it was primary.

If any sin was primary Ezekiel seems to say it was pride and, interestingly enough, neglecting the poor.

Why not harp on that sin?

 

Jud 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

 

2Pe 2:6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked

 

Even there you have to admit if shares the stage with all sexual immorality.

And you still can't just ignore Ezekiel who specifies the causes as causes.

The Jude passage illustrates the sin of the angels, that is why sexual sins of all sorts are used there.