--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/26/06 6:17:40 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > According to the Bible, they didn't want to have to > share their prosperity with every stranger who came > along. > > I suspect they could have found other means, but rape > was a pretty effective threat, and, as I said, a common > means of doing so at that time. > > Plus which, they probably would have enjoyed the actual > intimidation and humiliation of the strangers. > > Rape generally--including heterosexual rape--is not > about sex but about power. > > I re read the story of Lot and found nothing about the people of > Sodom not wanting to share their prosperity with anybody.
"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it." (Ezekiel 16:49-50) In other words, the "abominations" were secondary. In becoming arrogant and selfish, they separated themselves from God and *as a result* descended into immorality. Question for you: Which do you think is more immoral, being homosexual, or raping strangers? Perhaps just the opposite. The > crowd expected they Angels share themselves with the men and boys of Sodom > while staying in their city. In fact the two angels that came were traveling > and only intended to spend the night in the town square and Lot insisted they > come to his home where he prepared a feast for them and they would be able to > leave in the morning and be on their way as early as they wanted. In fact > when the crowd demanded to "know" or have sex with the two angels and Lot > refused and offered his virgin daughters instead, the crowd became furious and > told Lot he was an outsider living among them and had no right to tell them > what they could have or not have. The point of the story was God had been told > the people of Sodom and Gomorra were wicked in every way and He wanted to see > for himself. Now I'll agree,that depriving hospitality to traveling strangers > could have been looked upon as wicked or unkind but remember, they were > wicked in every way. And Laviticus 18:22 describes homosexuality as an > abomination in the eyes of God. Also it says else where in the Bible that God took the > land that he gave to the Jews away from other people that had defiled > themselves through such behaviors. And God commanded that Jews not do the same > things or he would take the land from them. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
