>>19575816>>19575812Jewish and Christian scholars have always said that the main sin of the Sodomites—the reason God destroyed the city—was homosexual behavior. In 19.5, the Sodomites see the angels as men, and surrounding Lot's house, they ask him to let them have intercourse with them. When they called out to Lot, "Bring them out here, let us know them!", the Hebrew word for "to know" (jadah) means sexual intercourse. That's how it is, e.g. also in Genesis 4:25, where this word refers to the sexual relationship between Adam and Eve. Lot even offered two virgin daughters instead of the guests, but the men of Sodom rejected this offer because they valued homosexual sex more than heterosexual sex (Genesis 19:8-9). Today, however, some homosexual activists and homoideologists promote the idea that Sodom's sin was simply a refusal to receive hospitality. Although the lack of hospitality is also a sin, here it was clearly the homosexual behavior of the Sodomites that provoked God's anger, and because of this he destroyed the city. For more, we only have to look at the Scriptures' own interpretation of the sin of Sodom. Genesis 13:13 and 18:20 show that the Sodomites were very wicked and sinful even before the alleged sin of "lack of hospitality". This was because the sodomites were homosexuals and not because they did not like guests. Ezekiel says that the people of Sodom "have done a terrible thing" (Ezekiel 16:50), a phrase that refers to sinful homosexual and heterosexual behavior. Although Ezekiel does refer to the lack of hospitality, saying that the people of Sodom "did not take care of the poor and the needy" (Ezekiel 16:49), so both homosexual acts and the lack of hospitality may have contributed to the destruction of Sodom, but the first, the it had to be a much greater sin, the "horrible thing" that ultimately provoked divine wrath.
