What was the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah ? | GotQuestions.org

What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? And what does the Sodom and Gomorrah story tell us about Christianity and Homosexuality and Homosexuality in the Bible. In this video, Pastor Nelson with Bible Munch looks at Genesis 18, Genesis 19 along with other related passages to discover what the Sodom and Gomorrah sin was and what we can learn from the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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[@umothebeliever]

I Finally understand ✨ This is Really a Touchy topic which we as people and Believers we run away from these days. may Good Help us

[@ConsidertheCrows]

Touchy to those who are perishing.

[@valleytruthers3827]

@@ConsidertheCrows Perhaps you both should repent, and stop worshiping the created rather than the creator.

[@bernardjackson6594]

Rebellion to the utterly wicked world is obedience to God

[@debrawolfrunninghorses77emma]

Excellent video

[@phil2768]

I find it interesting how some people (mainly pro LGBTQ) continue to try to say it has nothing to do with homosexuality when it clearly does and trying to change various meanings in the Bible to try and make it as if homosexuality isn't even a sin, which it clearly is. Btw, I'm not religious and believe everyone can live how they choose (so long as it doesn't harm others).

[@christerry1773]

I don’t deny the stories correlation to homosexuality. I deny it because of how utterly ridiculous it is. Sitting aside the fact that God already destroyed the world one time. Now just a couple of cities and all of its inhabitants, sparing a few people as long as they don’t look back.??? And the biblical version for these cities is the only possibility for its demise. It couldn’t possibly be any form of natural disaster, combined by errors in transplanting the same story from generation to generation?? I mean come on people!!

[@quitpmoforgood687]

Yes they continue to change things to fit their agenda just as predicted.

[@romandaigle455]

Homosexuality is a violation against the other person involved but a violation against the doer of it. It does hurt everyone involved.

[@deuteronomy6411]

Well what does Sodomy mean ? There’s your answer

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

The word Sodomy is a man-made term from the understanding of Genesis 19 being about male homosexuality, though many males "sodomize" their wives or women as well, if you are going to use that term. I lived in Israel for 10 years for both the Church of England and the Tel- Aviv Hilton as a chef, and I had to learn Hebrew to do my job efficiently. This also helped me to read the Bible in it's original language, such as with the story of Sodom (S'dom) in Genesis 19. I have often noticed how English translators would choose a certain word when often Hebrew was wider in meaning to have had a choice of more than one word to get the fullest understanding, as Hebrew uses a lot of "root words" in that the same consonants can appear in a related word that would give a set of words a backround logical link that would not apply in English. For instance the word sun is SHEMESH, meaning to SERVE the earth with light. Other Biblical words are linked by the 3-letter root consonants SHIN-MEM-SHIM (Sh-M-Sh), such as SHAMASH for "deacon" meaning "servant," or one who "serves" in the Church, yet no one would connect these in English, so some Hebrew sentences make deeper sense with this knowledge, such as "His name will be called 'Jesus' for He will save His people from their sins." This makes no sense whatsoever to an English reader, but in the Hebrew it uses the words, "His Name will be called YESHUA for He will YOSHEA His people from their sins," and so the reader connects the Saviour's Name (which means "salvation" anyway) to the word "save" in the sentence. Hebrew names have meaning, such as SHIMSHON ("Samson") having the same root as SHEMESH & SHAMASH from the root meaning to SERVE, but also ostensibly "shining one" with the close connection to the word for the sun ("shemesh"). Furthermore the polite word for "toilet" or "bathroom" in Hebrew is BEIT SHIMUSH, with the same Sh-M-Sh root, meaning "House of Services." Now in English you would never connect the sun with a deacon, with Samson and a toilet! Yet, they all link together beautifully and sensibly in the Hebrew language. Hebrew grammar is also very different to English and it is rather a 'chauvinistic' language always using the likes of male plurals to include females too. For instance BOY = YELED, GIRL = YELDAH, CHILDREN (BOYS & GIRLS) = YELEDIM (MALE PLURAL), and GIRLS ONLY (FEMALE PLURAL) = YELEDOT. If there are 99 boys and 1 girl it is still male plural YELEDIM, and if it is 100 boys it is male plural YELEDIM. If it is 100 girls it is YELEDOT female plural, but if it is 99 girls and 1 boy it becomes YELEDIM, male plural. This is used throughout the Bible, such as with "sons of God," "men of Galilee," "men of Jerusalem" etc when talking about mixed sex groups of people. Even the translated "Children of Israel" is actually the male plural "sons of Israel" in Hebrew (B'NEI ISRAEL), not "children" (YELEDIM), but the translators wanted to avoid "sons" only. The same is used in Genesis 19 where Lot's house in vs 4 is surrounded by "men" of the city. The word for "men" here (and "men" can be "geverim" or "b'nei adam") is the more general term "anashim" from the root word "anush" meaning "human," not solely men. With the male plurals of Hebrew the "men" has the possibility of including females, as throughout the Bible, and the use of the "human" linked root renders this word to mean more clearly PEOPLE, which I know is an everyday word for people in modern Israel today ("ANASHIM"). English readers read "men" and assume homosexuality. But the same verse also uses the English word PEOPLE "from every quarter" and not "men" which backs up the clear meaning of "anashim" being "people," a mixed sex crowd, bent on sexually molesting the angelic visitors in a frenzied orgy of lust, where the city had embraced every form of depravity, such as the likes of adultery, fornication, orgies, incest, paedolphilia, voyeurism, bestiality and every kind of perversion imaginable that the city was slated for destruction even BEFORE this incident (Gen 18, God said to Abraham), and homosexuality and lesbianism would also have been present within the city/cities. The word "PEOPLE" used in this second instance (in the same verse) is the SINGULAR word for people ("AM") such as in "AM ISRAEL" ("People of Israel"), whereas ANASHIM is the plural usage for a crowd of individuals. Both are used and both represent a mixed sex crowd. Thus it makes more sense for Lot to offer his 2 daughters rather than to a group of male homosexuals! Also if it were only this incident that enraged God then Gomorrah should have been spared, but both were so depraved they had previously been slated for destruction, whether this incident had occurred or not, as the angels had come to rescue Lot, but the incident is just a proof of the unbridled passions, sins & behaviour that had overtaken the "people" of the city. Therefore "Sodomy" is a man-made term based on a limited understanding of the grammar in the text, and from which many preachers wax eloquent about homosexuality (only) and "Sodomites." The Bible does condemn homosexuality clearly in both Old and New Testaments, so this is not some kind of revisionism to deny what is elsewhere proscribed in Scripture, but it is correcting an historical error that has caused many man-made doctrines to be believed. The Biblical meaning of a "Sodomite" is simply a citizen of Sodom, just as a "Jerusalemite" is a citizen of Jerusalem. Many will not accept any of the above due to denominational teachings.

[@datprawn4850]

Then would you mind helping me understand woman homosexuality, because it's only mentioned in the New Testament in Romans 1:26 KJV, but is absent in the Old Testament.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

@@datprawn4850 What do you want to understand about it? It is the same as male homosexuality, only with women being attracted to women, i.e. lesbianism. What is there to 'understand'? The New Testament mentions it, but the "Old" Testament doesn't. Paul obviously encountered this being a Roman citizen who knew the freer lifestyles outside of the confines of Israel and imposed his Jewish morality onto what he had seen going on. Old Testament Israel was more of a Patriarchal and chauvinistic society where outlets for women were much less likely, plus with the strict religious system such behaviour between women was perhaps not such a common occurance as some of the other sexual sins listed. As for 'understanding' it, that is in the sphere of personal dimension, not of doctrine.

[@tinaludlow9767]

I agree with you 100%, Thank you for sharing... God be with you. 🙏🙏🙏

[@jcampbell6822]

Wasn't just sexual immorality. It was also a lack of respect and manners.

[@freespiritpearl89]

I'm surprised he didn't mention that. They hate gay men so much 😔

[@priyankagangwar1799]

Praise the lord 🙏

[@Lukeydookee]

I find it interesting that pride is stated first in the list of the sins of Sodom, in Ezekiel 16:49, followed by; fullness of bread, abundance of idleness, and neglect of the poor. Proverbs 30:8,9 says, "...feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD?" Human experience demonstrates that when we have an abundance of things above our needs we become prideful, ungrateful, turn from the fear of God, and indulge ourselves in all manner of carnal pleasures until we are sotted with them, having lost all perspective of what it means to be content, and even the meaning of life itself. It's also important to observe that though the unnatural sexual act (later to be known as sodomy) is not stated in the Ezekiel list, it was a product of their 'pride'. I think pride was the root cause of many of their sins, as it has always been with the rest of mankind, including us today. Also, their pride seems to be a result of having "fulness of bread", but it shouldn't have been an inevitable consequence. For, instead of being thankful to God for their abundance of provisions, and distributing the excess to the poor and needy, they glutted themselves, and then further degenerated into unbridled lust, resulting in sexual perversion, or "filthy behaviour" as stated by the apostle Peter (2Peter 2:7). I believe sexual sin is an inevitable consequence of pride though, and it is most salient that the modern 'Pride' movement is characterised, amongst other things, by apparent complete sexual license.

[@michaelmorris6575]

Great teaching! Thanks for sharing.

[@mic44lee44]

Sin Is Judged By Our Holy God and He Has His Wrath On Detestable Things and Let It Be An Example and A Guide To Stay Away and Ask The Holy Spirit For His Leadership and Guidance and Pray To Jesus Christ For Forgiveness ❤

[@maryloulongenbaugh7069]

Concise. Excellent teaching and presentation. Thank you for a comprehensive look at the topic.

[@IOrganic.]

Blessed ✋🏻

[@juanmarinez6162]

Thank you

[@SKUNKOFFICIALLC]

JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!!!!!

[@refonmiah211]

Jesus is lord what do you mean?

[@abdulh8958]

He is prophet from god

[@peggyvorse1461]

Is there a Chinese symbol, sometimes I just don’t like it cause I figured it’s associated with paganism.

[@eddiem1155]

✞

[@zackmac5917]

@@refonmiah211 The Lord of Lords and the King of Kings The titles only attributed to God. Jesus Christ is Lord of Lord and Kings of Kings, the one and only Son of God, equal with God, and was with God from the beginning before all creation. The Logos. All things were created through Jesus. Jesus and the Father are one. That's what is meant by Lord. Jesus is the Lord, just as the Father is the Lord. The Father has given the Son all things and a name above every name. His name.

[@LuciferCrowOfficial]

Imagine watching this on pride month

[@kenzeetwo]

Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire”. Having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh: Jude refers to the account in Genesis 19, where the homosexual conduct of the men of Sodom is described. Eze_16:49 tells us of other sins of Sodom: 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. Sexual depravity was not their only sin, but it was certainly among their sins, and Jude makes this plain.

[@isaiasacuna8695]

I don’t! I don’t run away from it. I won’t disrespect them especially if they are my coworkers because they could get you fired and ruin your career. But I will say and tell them, I don’t agree with you and your lifestyle” and I wouldn’t want any of my family members to be part of that lifestyle. That’s how I believe, that’s how I feel about it and that is my opinion on it. So we must agree to disagree, you do you. Go ahead and knock yourself out in your lifestyle. If you ever need my help for something? I’ll be here and try to help you as best I can.

[@jokerjapitana9379]

The sin of Sodom and Gamorrah is more than one. It's not just sin, but SINS.

[@refonmiah211]

But primarily it was homosexuality

[@jokerjapitana9379]

@@refonmiah211 Yup, it is. The no control of pervertion of flesh.

[@Thoralmir]

@@refonmiah211 That was more the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@refonmiah211]

Yes but at the end it all ended with the group of men who wanted to rape the two angels disguised as men am I wrong?

[@thecarlitosshow7687]

Its the worst sins of the worst.

[@Mims.Entertainment]

The one fact of those cities that no one seems to get about why it was necessary to totally destroy them was these two words: HIV AIDS. Otherwise, the whole part of that world would have died from it. The eighties was not the first time that came about, in my opinion.

[@independentpuppy7520]

Who was the leader of those cities? Confused because some people think it was a homosexual King. In the film I watched it was a bisexual Queen. Queen Bera. I also wonder why most people are against homosexual men but not lesbians. Surely god would be against both.

[@refonmiah211]

God is against both

[@joshuakohlmann9731]

No God worthy of worship is against either.

[@freespiritpearl89]

Because straight like lesbians. The bible is a man's book of fiction.

[@CoyKiyote]

Sooooo what was the sin?

[@77Friction]

The sin is sodomy, haughty attitude, unrepentance, not giving to poor and helping needy. The list continues.

[@craigcook6233]

@@77Frictionpeople kills me when when they put one sin higher than other sin. In Ezekiel 16 God called out the sins of sodom and gomorrah, What sin God called out first and what sin God called out last? God destroyed Sodom and gomorrah because how they treated the poor ad needy and we can talk about abomination all day but the fact is that wasn't the first sin God called outiu are right

[@deuteronomy6411]

@@craigcook6233 Bring out the men so we can KNOW them Mary about how can she give birth I have not KNOWN a man

[@craigcook6233]

@@deuteronomy6411 it was about violence in Ezekiel God spoke about why He destroyed Sodom and gomorrah read it

[@npzwane9331]

Homosexuality. Period

[@catgarza4947]

Why did God send the two angels to Sodom?

[@rachel183321]

I wanted to become gay but my Christian side is telling me no no no and no just because I look like a man doesn’t mean I am one and as a Christian I’m not allowed to be gay pray for me cause I feel the dark side coming for me I got rid of one demon alcoholism now the gay demon has entered my life I need help here people.

[@conb8274]

Excellent video teaching this!

[@RodMartinJr]

*_The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was very similar to the Sin which prompted Noah's Flood._* Genesis 6 is very unclear about the reasons for the Flood -- merely "wickedness, violence and corruption of flesh." These jeopardized God's Way upon the Earth. We have to ask, *_"What exactly is 'God's Way' upon the Earth?"_* And how did man jeopardize that Way? Corruption of Flesh is perhaps one of our better clues. And when we use the Holy Spirit to derive a biblical timeline, we find, in science, the *_Identity_* of the "daughters of men" who were the TARGET of the Flood. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯 REFERENCES: *_The Bible's Hidden Wisdom: God's Reason for Noah's Flood_* *_The Logical Christian_*

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[@aliciamcdonald7105]

Good attempt at explaining this but here are some questions for you. If God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah MAINLY for homosexuality ( according to you that is ), why did he not do this to the tribe of BENJAMIN who CLEARLY had among them those who lived the same way and the tribe of BENJAMIN knew this and obviously had NO PROBLEM with these men Judges 19. Not only did they not have a problem with these men who practiced homosexuality, they fought against their other brethren ( the other tribes of Israel) to protect them Judges 20. The tribe of Benjamin were practically destroyed ONLY AFTER they REFUSED to give up the men who essentially KILLED a man's wife by raping her whole night, for judgement. Why the inconsistency? Why did not God destroyed Jerusalem in similar fashion if as he says in Ezekiel 16 : 46 -52, she (Jerusalem) was more corrupted than Sodom and Samaria, were more abominable than either of them to the point that GOD HIMSELF deemed them to be more righteous than Jerusalem? WHY?

[@Lukeydookee]

I think that's a good question Alicia. Here's what I understand about it: though God certainly judged both Benjamin (almost to total destruction, as you pointed out), and Jerusalem on a number of occasions, He did not totally destroy (annihilate) either of them, though they deserved it as Sodom did, because of the promise he had made to them through Abraham (Psalm 105v7-12). God also refers to this promise further down in chapter 16 of Ezekiel, that you made reference to. Remember also that God didn't destroy all the inhabitants of Sodom, He spared Lot and his family.

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

@@Lukeydookee Good morning! Thanks for your response. I think you read my question wrong, I am asking why GOD DID NOT punish the tribe of Benjamin AT ALL and in NO WAY. It took the incident in Judges 19 BEFORE their actions were brought into focus and AGAIN it was not their 'HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE' that caused the wrath of their fellow brethren but what they did to the man's WIFE. So let me repeat, if we are agreeing that the MAIN sin for which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed was the sin of homosexuality, they WHY did not GOD destroy or punish the men of Gibeah and the tribe of Benjamin on a whole for this SAME THING. The answer for me is CLEAR but I know for most people who don't STUDY the bible and who DON'T KNOW GOD it wont.

[@emediongeshiet5812]

The tribe of Benjamin was almost wiped out for their heinous perverse attrocities by their brethren. There was a mass genoicde that almost ended in their total elimination. Mind you, the tribe of Benjamin at the time of the judges were proud of their sin and unrepentant.

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

@@emediongeshiet5812 Well I am not sure how to 'read' your comment. What exactly is your point and I do not mean that in an offensive way.

[@freespiritpearl89]

A man wrote the bible. Think about.😐

[@Elvengem]

Lot ,abraham's nephew knew his fellow city men that they were not fully homosexual. He said in genesis 19: 8Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.” The sin was not homosexuality but the sin of trying to have sex with angels. It says strange flesh in Jude 1:7. this was the sin of genesis 6:1 too where even angels were never to have relations with humans either.This time it was the vice versa.

[@ibelieveibelieve3215]

The outcry against Sodom was so grievous.. not the sin of Sodom was so grievous but the outcry against Sodom... why were the neighboring cities' outcrying against Sodom so grievous?. How was Sodom.oppressing those cities that their outcry was so grievous?

[@ibelieveibelieve3215]

Now, there are certain places which outcry against Godliness and their cities. How is this possible?

[@emediongeshiet5812]

The land cried out against them

[@JesusisGodandKingofkimgs]

Have you ever lied, stolen, used God's name in vain, looked wuth lust? if so you need to repent today and Believe in Jesus Christ to save you from Hell and go to heaven instead

[@rachelmathews6097]

With all the translations the Bible (especially Old Testament) I wouldn’t be surprised if it was never men and maybe just a mistranslation and assumptions 🤷

[@TomiAnneTimm]

You have not spoken of God the thing that is right, as God's servant king James had.

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[@paulbobier7857]

Sodom and Gomorrah (and all of the Cities of the Plains) are interesting and misunderstood. The Bible is not very specific about what set S&G's sins as much greater than the rest of the tribes and cities at that time. It must be far greater than just homosexuality or homosexual gang rape, as we know other tribes, cities and civilizations existed at this time, and they were also practicing this, but the Cities of the Plain were far worse than any other in God's sight and He chose to destroy them. We must look at this in terms ancient customs and worldviews, not according to modern ideals, so we can begin to understand the what that evil beyond all evil was, and we just don't have that knowledge anymore, not definitively. According to Leviticus, Moses instructs the Hebrews what is toevah, which is to be against practicing acts that the non-Hebrew world does. So we know homosexuality existed outside of S&G. And we know that this level of depravity will not exist to such a degree until the end times. We know their sexual perversions were completely sick, that they were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things, GREATER than any other place on earth; their outcry being so loud that God decided to destroy them forever.

[@harryhill6238]

has the west really ever changed?

[@UniversalMysticsOfChrist]

Wrong

[@brahimgadouche8071]

Of course homosexuality is not the only sin they did But who can did such big and horrible sin will did everthing wicked

[@joshuakohlmann9731]

Sodom isn't a real place: it symbolizes your lower mind. Literally the name means fire. Lot (whose name means "veil", the protector) represents that part of you which stands at the gate and guards the holy impulses (angels) within you. But the desires of the lower mind, represented by the men of the city, want to intercourse with the divine impulses and defile them, which is why Lot offers his two virgin daughters (pure desires) instead. They are then allowed to escape the destruction and ascend to the mountain, which means the higher consciousness. Or you could just read the story literally. But if you do, good luck when you get to the one virtuous man in the city offering to have his daughters raped and the daughters having sex with their father in a cave.

[@mikhailgayle261]

They made him drunk and they raped him. Lot didn’t even know what happened until u til they were with child.

[@nataliewalters2759]

No these were two cities Sodom and the other is Gomorrah.

[@famliy60]

​@@nataliewalters2759Let me tell you the craziest thing. Homosexuality was never a crime or considered a sin amongst women, so why would Ezekiel mention that? I believe it was really speaking about something else.

[@SpaceCityProjectz]

Maybe its in the name? Buttsex and gambling?

[@rogermansour6085]

Excellent Pastor Nelson. .I always quote Ezekiel 16:49-50. Also as the sins of Sodom Evangelist Roger Mansour

[@Airgunn]

It was really the Homosexuality and lust.

[@phuakiangee8626]

I believe the sins Sodom and Gomorrah was homosexuality.

[@kiranr2174]

Homosexuality makes our lives meaningless..

[@Blue_ocean66]

Answer: homosexuality

[@PapierDeutscher]

I don't think that homosexuality was the sin of Sodom & Gomorrha, but the sin of mixing humans with angels. The reason why god brought the flood, because of the Nephilim. Today homosexuality is pretty much normal and there's no judgememt. Jesus told us that the days of the endtimes will be the same like in Noahs days, means if we live in the endtimes, prepare to witness some kind of mixing with humans with fallen angels again.

[@steveshelton3081]

No it was all of it. Every sexual sin you can think of. Don't cherry pick it to fit your narrative. Also those weren't fallen angels. So no. There were no mixing of man and angels at Sodom. The men tried to have sex with them and the angels of the lord wasn't having it. That city was very perverted and homosexuality was very common. Orgies, you name it

[@PapierDeutscher]

@@Vesselglory The correct answer is what the bible tells us. Don't interpret your own opinion into the word of god: Jude 1:6-7: 6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling-these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

[@Vesselglory]

@@PapierDeutscher and sexual immorality means what exactly? Would homosexuality be encapsulated in that?

[@refonmiah211]

You didn’t understand the story did

[@Thoralmir]

@@Vesselglory The pursuit of sexual acts for simply the pleasure rather than the sacred means by which new humans are brought into the world.

[@freespiritpearl89]

That wasn't sodom and Gomorrah sins. Their sins was they didn't show hospitality to strangers.