10. The Sin of Sodomy

Jehovah Needs to Investigate

In speaking of the omniscience of Jehovah, the following, Genesis 18:22-33 speak volumes.

Here is a quote from a former post, Jehovah is tolerant, just and loving and it is only when humans prove themselves to be incorrigible that He finally takes action to reprimand, correct or even destroy those whom He has chosen for destruction. 

Sodom and the neighbouring cities had come to that point where destruction was called for.  Abraham pled with Jehovah not to destroy Sodom.   Abraham probably did this because his nephew, Lot and his family, lived in Sodom.

Abraham started off by saying, Suppose there are fifty righteous people in Sodom, would you still destroy it. Jehovah did not say, I know exactly how many there are and there are not fifty. He said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.  The Lord did not know!   Abraham's pleading continued all the way down to ten. Gen. 18:33.  At no point did Jehovah indicate that He knew how many, but He did say, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.

It just does not fulfil the demands of critical Bible study to simply say, well, it does not mean what it says; the Bible says that God did not know.

Mankind's Total Depravity

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord. Genesis 13:13. The Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave. Genesis 18:20.

The sin of sodomy, (abnormal sexual behaviour), obviously, gets its name from the name of the city of Sodom.  The Bible says that the men who practice such perversions are exceedingly wicked and sinful.  In our society even "the church": 

• which is to be the light of the world; 
• which is to provide moral guidance; 
• which is to speak out against sinful practices, 

for the most part, condones, or even practices that sin. 

Those few who speak out against it are labelled homophobic; which, by the way, is among the worst misnomers ever to be coined.  We are said to be narrow-minded and anti-social; actually, we are also called a lot worse. 

We take the stand we do, because, our guidebook, The Bible, tells us that practice is wrong and a sin.  So we, who uphold what the Bible teaches to be right are made to look like "the bad guys" because we do not condone the immoral actions of those who do.

Paul wrote about this in these words, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. Rom. 1:21-22. 

The whole mess would not seem so disgusting if those who practice it at least were not so blatantly proud of their degraded lifestyle.  Why do they need their degenerated, nude, pride parades just to show that they do not conform to the normal standard?

Billy Graham once said words to this effect: If God doesn't punish America for its sexual perversions, He will need to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for treating them unfairly.

We, who condemn the practice, are painted with a black brush because they should be ashamed of their disgusting lifestyle.  Isaiah 5:20-21+24 fits in here:

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,

And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Very plainly the Bible says,

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. Lev. 18:22.

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. Romans 1:27.

Anybody who tells me that he can be a child of God and live in perversion, live in the thick mire of our contemporary permissiveness, is not kidding anyone but himself.

These are passions of dishonor and disgrace and depravity—regardless of what public opinion is today. Perversion entered into Greek life, and it brought Greece down to the dust. Go over there and look at Greece today. The glory has passed away. Why? These were their sins.

That is what Rev. J.V. McGee wrote a few decades ago.   One can not help but wonder what his words would be now that that sin has so completely permeated our society.

The Believers Bible Study says Homosexuality is pictured by Paul not as the ultimate sin but as the ultimate distortion of God’s creative genius. When the human family indulges in sexual behavior antithetical to that for which they were biologically, psychologically, and emotionally designed, the “futile” imagination has so “darkened” the foolish heart (v. 21) that it is virtually impossible to view anything as God intended. To these awesome sins of homosexuality and sodomy, Paul applies six terms of evaluation: (1) “uncleanness” (v. 24), (2) “lusts” (v. 24), (3) “dishonor” (v. 24), (4) “vile passions” (v. 26), (5) “against nature” (v. 26), and (6) “shameful”.

Don't blame us, we didn't make the rules!

Neither did we decide on the punishment.

For a different view of Lot and Sodom go to:

http://spaceshiptheology.blogspot.com/2013/09/ee-cast-abraham-host.html