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02/20/10(Sat)23:06:34 No.7595810http://www.biblebaptistpublications.org/homosexuality.html
>How do we know for certain that sodomy is a sin?
>Because God's word declares it to be a sin, over
and over again. One of the first times "Sodom" occurs in the Bible God
sends us a sound warning: "But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
before the LORD exceedingly." (Gen. 13:13) In Genesis 18:20, we are told
that the sin of Sodom is "very grievous." Then in Genesis 19:4-7 we
read of a case where the Sodomites seek sexual relations with a total
stranger! Shortly after this incident, God destroys their entire city
because He couldn't find even ten righteous people dwelling there.
>Later, in the book of Leviticus, some very sharp
warnings are given about sodomy. Leviticus 18:22 says, "Thou shalt not
lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Then Leviticus
20:13 says, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them." Webster defines an "abomination"
as "extreme hatred" and "detestation." That's how God feels about
sodomites.
>Hundreds of years
later we read that sodomites are in the land and they are committing
"abominations" (1 Kings 14:24). King Asa, a good king over Judah, did
"that which was right in the eyes of the Lord" when he "took away the
sodomites out of the land" (1 Kings 15:11-12). Several years later there
were still some sodomites left in the land, so King Jehoshaphat, the
son of King Asa, also did that which was RIGHT in the eyes of the Lord
by taking the sodomites OUT of the land (1 Kings 22:43-46). We also read
that King Josiah did the "right" thing when he "brake down the houses
of the sodomites" (2 Kings 22:2; 23:7). |