[Amanah]

Originally Posted by coksiw

I found this in the article and just threw me off:

"Whereas the Old Testament tends to describe the sin of Sodom in terms of injustice and inhospitality, later apocryphal writings (notably Jubilees) emphasis sexual immorality."

That's not true. Those that say that, are usually trying to make an argument in favor of Homosexuality as not a sin. They usually quote Ezekiel 16, but the always forget to quote the entire pericope:


[Eze 16:48-50 NKJV]
48 "[As] I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.


Then comes the typical verse used for that argument:
49 "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.

But they always forget this:
50 "And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw [fit].

The obvious:
[Lev 18:22 NKJV] 22 'You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It [is] an abomination.

Curiously, the Hebrew word for abomination in this passage in Ezekiel is the same as the passage in Leviticus.

The sin of Sodom and Gomorah started with pride out of abundance of food, and ended with Homosexuality. They are all sin, and the later is even an abomination.

Very important point