[SIZE=-1]"As Taught by the Jewish Scholars since Moses", isn't an answer that will cut it, and is false. To even THINK that all those people were homosexual is absurd, and only a small portion of the population is homosexual in the first place.
Your commentary does not refute the facts. Post some verses that refute this:
Ezekiel 16:49,50 says, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen" (NIV).
That is THE ONLY reference IN the Bible to the sin of Sodom. Show me a verse that says otherwise!
I don't even need articles to refute your idle commentary.[/SIZE]
WRONG! Ezekiel is
NOT the only reference in the Bible to the sin of Sodom! See Jude 7.
Nobody ever claimed that every single human being, in Sodom and Gomorrah, except Lot and his family, were homosexual. That does NOT preclude God from destroying a city, a neighborhood, or a nation. that openly permitted and encourgaged, what in God's eyes was, abominable sexual perversions, whether every person actively participated, or not.
OBTW where does Ezekiel say "
this [, only this and nothing else] was the sin of your sister Sodom?" There is no verse anywhere in the Bible that contradicts any other verse, but there are verses which complement other verses. For example, Jude 7 complements Ezekiel.
Your cut/pastes from homosexual websites do
NOT, and will
NEVER, refute 3000 years +/- of Jewish scholarship, regardless how you, and they, selectively misquote and pervert the scripture!
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.
Jud 1:7 ως 5613 ADV σοδομα 4670 N-NPN και 2532 CONJ γομορρα 1116 N-NSF και 2532 CONJ αι 3588 T-NPF περι 4012 PREP αυτας 846 P-APF πολεις 4172 N-NPF τον 3588 T-ASM ομοιον 3664 A-ASM τουτοις 5125 D-DPM τροπον 5158 N-ASM εκπορνευσασαι 1608 V-AAP-NPF και 2532 CONJ απελθουσαι 565 V-2AAP-NPF οπισω 3694 ADV σαρκος 4561 N-GSF ετερας 2087 A-GSF προκεινται4295 V-PNI-3P δειγμα1164 N-ASN πυρος4442 N-GSN αιωνιου166 A-GSN δικην1349 N-ASF υπεχουσαι5254 V-PAP-NPF
The verbs translated “
giving themselves over to fornication” i.e.
εκπορνευσασαι and “
going after,” i.e.
απελθουσαι are AAP and 2AAP, respectively, aorist, active, participles, an action began in the past, continuing into the future.
God knew about the cumulative sins, the “outlaw porn,
[SIZE=+1]*[/SIZE]” of Sodom when he was talking with Abraham, at Mamre, before he went down to Sodom. Gen 13:13, Gen 18:20-26, The perverts of Sodom were prevented from doing anything against the angels, by blindness, and certainly did not do anything with any flesh afterward. Gen 19:24ff.
Robertson Word Pictures in the N.T. -- Jud 1:7 {Even as} (\ως\). Just "as." The third instance (Jude passes by the deluge) in Jude, the cities of the plain. {The cities about them} (\hai peri autas poleis\). These were also included, Admah and Zeboiim (De 29:23; Ho 11:8). Zoar, the other city, was spared. {In like manner} (\ton homoion tropon\). Adverbial accusative (cf. \ως\). Like the fallen angels. {Having given themselves over to fornication} (\ekporneusasai\). First aorist active participle feminine plural of \ekporneu“\, late and rare compound (perfective use of \ek\, [SIZE=+1]*[/SIZE] outside the moral law), only here in N.T., but in LXX (Ge 38:24; Ex 34:15f., etc.).