Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Castrated males and homosexuals are very distinct: one does not have sex with the same gender and the other does (but actually it is sodomy not sex).Brother, you omitted verse 7 of 2 Peter (i.e. 2 Peter 2:7) it sheds light on 2 Peter 6 and provides proper context and helps to clarify what the sin of the Sodomites actually was.
[B]2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked.
Would you agree with me that sodomy or homosexuality is filthy Nellinator? I believe that this was the chief sin based on the context of Genesis 18 and 2 Peter 2:7. There were other lawless deeds (based on 2 Peter 2:8) but I believe that the context suggests that homosexuality was chief among those lawless deeds that were committed by the Sodomites; hence, the term sodomy.
Furthermore, brother Ezekiel does not at all contradict what I have maintained at the outset: homosexuality is an abomination.
Ezekiel 16: 49-50
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, 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 good." [/B]
By referencing the Matthew verse I am trying to show that homosexuality does not necessarily condemn someone.
As for 2 Peter 2:7, there are many filthy deeds one can do. In fact, all sin is filthy before God. Greed (guilty), pride (guilty), murder, rape (another they were guilty of), foul language, etc. So, yes, although homosexuality would fit the description as a sin, this verse does not pinpoint it as a sin.
I never called it a contradiction. The Ezekiel passage does not rule out homosexuality as one of their sins, but it does show that it was not worthy of mention specifically as one of the sins.
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
[b]Genesis 18:20-21
And the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,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.”
Genesis 19:5
And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.”
Genesis 19:7-8
and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!
See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Genesis 19:13
For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.
Genesis 19:15
When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” [/B]
The city was already condemned before the people tried to rape the angels, so it only goes to show that is was a sin, not a primary one.