Seeing as we are right at the beginning of a month-long “celebration” of sin, debauchery, stupidity, and human excess, that the Western “elites” call – ironically enough – “Pride Month”, it is probably worth going back to Scripture to understand exactly how God views that kind of crap:
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
— Genesis 19:23-29, English Standard Version
For those who are foolish enough to think that God destroyed Sodom purely because the inhabitants refused to provide shelter and hospitality to two of His angels in disguise – the following video should help disabuse you of this particularly stupid notion:
And here is the passage in Jude referred to as the explanation, in the New Testament, for the destruction of Sodom:
5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved[c] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,[d] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
— Jude 1:5-7, English Standard Version
The answer from Scripture is absolutely clear: God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities, because of persistent, rampant, extremely perverse, and disgusting sexual immorality of the absolute worst kind.
Those who celebrate “Pride Month” as some sort of “sexual liberation”, or think that “love is love”, ought to keep those passages in mind. God is not mocked. He WILL destroy those who give in to their own hedonistic passions.
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i have serious questions about the supposed “righteousness” of Lot.
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1 – the text is quite clear that the habits of the men of Sodom were well established, clearly prior to visitation of the angels with Abraham. why is it assumed that Lot did not experience the exact same welcome and hospitality with which the angels were greeted?
2 – Lot’s response in the moment says a great deal. yes, Lot knew enough to recognize the angels when he saw them. but he ALSO KNEW that the only chance of dissuading the mob was to throw his daughters to them. is this the act of a righteous man?
3 – post destruction, Lot fathers children on BOTH of his daughters. at their instigation, true. but Lot was the one who chose to get drunk. once again, where is the “righteousness”.
4 – there was no reason for Lot and his daughters to be hiding in the mountain at all. Lot had already begged for Zoar to be spared, the angels had granted his request AND LOT HAD ALREADY ENTERED Zoar. it was not until AFTER Sodom and the rest of the cities of the plain had been destroyed, excepting Zoar, that Lot then hid in the mountains with his daughters. what is Lot hiding from? the judgment has already passed. sounds an awful lot like Lot had knew that he was guilty to me.
5 – Lot’s wife clearly yearned for the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, otherwise she would not have been turned into a pillar of salt.
the upshot being, that i’m pretty sure that God would not have counted Lot himself amongst the 10 righteous men necessary to spare Sodom.
despite whatever Peter and the rabbis might have thought of Lot.