that was the PRIMARy sin listed though, and again, it is the ONLY sin that satan has done a great sales job in getting many pastors and churches to now accept as ok to do once saved, "Just do in within biblical guideleines of 1 man for 1 man, in a commited marriage!"
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.
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
the sexual perversion God judged was NOT adultary/fornication though, it was men lusting after other men, women after other women, exhanging the order god made for satanic order, and THAT brought down the wrath of God!
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.
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.
yes, Jude and peter and Genesis passage shows us that God judged them for sins, that they were commiting sexual perversions, as going after 'strange flesh"
So?
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that [e]the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, [f]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after [g]strange flesh, are exhibited as an [h]example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
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