Why did God destroy Sodom & Gomorrah ?

[Apple Sky]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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[ozso]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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I think scripture makes it perfectly clear why God destroyed S&G, and anything beyond that requires reading into scripture what's not there.

Why are nephilim such a fascination with folks? Humans exist. Angels exist. Why are possible human angel hybrids so tantalizing?

 

[Apple Sky]

Why are nephilim such a fascination? Humans exist. Angels exist. Why are possible human angel hybrids so tantalizing?

Because of the giants they produced & if you don't believe there were giants take a look at some of the artifacts they have found they have found skeletons & all sorts.

Here is one such artifact.

 

[ozso]

Because of the giants they produced & if you don't believe there were giants take a look at some of the artifacts they have found they have found skeletons & all sorts.

Here is one such artifact.

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Sure giants exist. Here's one:

Who needs big swords as evidence of giants when there's Robert Wadlow? Why aren't people fascinated with giants totally gaga over him? Probably because there's nothing mystical about him. Since he was so entirely real, he's nothing more than just a really tall dude.

 

[Apple Sky]

Who needs big swords as evidence of giants when there's Robert Wadlow? Why aren't people fascinated with giants totally gaga over him? Probably because there's nothing mystical about him. Since he was so entirely real, he's nothing more than just a really tall dude.

I'd like to see hold & fight with the sword pictured above.

 

[ozso]

I'd like to see hold & fight with the sword pictured above.

That's a ceremonial claymore on display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. I'm afraid there's nothing mysterious about it. It has a full history. It didn't belong to an ancient mysterious giant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/s/InWUvzYHT8

 

[Apple Sky]

That's a ceremonial claymore on display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. I'm afraid there's nothing mysterious about it. It has a full history. It didn't belong to an ancient mysterious giant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/s/InWUvzYHT8

It doesn't say it didn't belong to a giant.
Where was it made & who made it ?

This large bearing sword, with its leather scabbard, belonged to the Sempills of Elliestoun. It was used for ceremonial purposes only. The sword is two and a half metres long. To help with the carrying of the sword, the pommel has a knob which fitted into a pouch in the front of a leather strap worn by the holder. The pommel and the quillons are made of brass, the blade of steel.

 

[ozso]

It doesn't say it didn't belong to a giant.
Where was it made & who made it ?

This large bearing sword, with its leather scabbard, belonged to the Sempills of Elliestoun. It was used for ceremonial purposes only. The sword is two and a half metres long. To help with the carrying of the sword, the pommel has a knob which fitted into a pouch in the front of a leather strap worn by the holder. The pommel and the quillons are made of brass, the blade of steel.

I think if it had been made for a giant to use as a regular sword that would be mentioned in the history of it. But it's just a showpiece. I've seen tiny swords too. But there's no reason to believe they were made for gnomes.

 

[Apple Sky]

I think if it had been made for a giant to use as a regular sword that would be mentioned in the history of it.

Of course, it wouldn't, this is a part of history they are always trying to cover up.

I've seen tiny swords too. But there's no reason to believe they were made for gnomes.

There are Pygmies up north

 

[ozso]

Of course, it wouldn't, this is a part of history they are always trying to cover up.

How long were nephilim giants around for? Because that sword is clearly a medieval claymore. It was most likely made in the 15th century.

There are Pygmies up north

The average height of a pygmy is 4'11" which isn't amazingly small. There's many actors who are/were smaller than that.

The sword in the image I posted would have been for someone around 15 inches tall if it was a real combat sword.

 

[Apple Sky]

The average height of a pygmy is 4'11" which isn't amazingly small. There's many actors who are/were smaller than that.

The sword in the image I posted would have been for someone around 15 inches tall if it was a real combat sword.

Only kidding

 

[ozso]

Only kidding

I know. The bouncy smilie gave it away. While my posts might read as serious, they're often whimsical in nature when it comes to topics like this.

Anyways I do think giants existed and still do, but I don’t think that particular sword belonged to one. However I suppose it depends on what size giants are being considered. Some depictions of giants have them at like 50 feet tall. Whereas I'd say anyone over 7 feet tall can be called a giant.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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The Ezekiel answer comes to mind.

 

[RandyPNW]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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I think the Niphilim legends are just that--legends, including *Christian* legends. The fact Christians preserved the notion of giants produced by sexual relations between angels and women do not make it true.

The changes that took place in history in the books of Enoch do not render anything definite for me. I'm not really knowledgeable about them regardless--I have little interest in legends and tales, which seem to be what they are. Angels and men have little in common, physically, other than appearances. I doubt angels and human beings can have intimate physical relations, let alone produce hybrid children.

Sodom and Gomorrah were an early example of God's hostility towards rebellion against His moral laws by men. As the Law of Moses later pointed out, homosexuality was condemnable.

And the fact God turned it over to unbridled violence is an indicator of how "blessed" God considered sodomy. Both homosexuality and the violence it led to was condemned by God as something He was unwilling to bless with peace.

It was a form of rebellion against His laws, and not an example of Man working together with God and His Word. And such rebellion God gives over to the anarchy of human spirits, hearts, and deeds, leading to violence and murder.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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Lot was found righteous along with his family. This is the whole point , not the possible presence of Nephilim, that there was a remnant to be saved. Also, there is a whole backstory on this.
The conversation between God and Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18:16-33.
In this passage, God tells Abraham that He is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness. Abraham pleads with God to spare the cities, and God agrees to do so if He can find even ten righteous people there. Abraham continues to bargain with God, eventually reducing the number of righteous people needed to save the cities to just one. However, in the end, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, sparing only Lot and his family.

Blessings

 

[Apple Sky]

Anyways I do think giants existed and still do,

I reckon these tall dudes we see today are throw backs from the Nephilim blood lines & it wouldn't surprise me if these tall people are RH Negative the blood type that most royals have (blue blood).

“Fee-fi-fo-fum,. I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead,. I'll grind his bones to make my bread.”

 

[Apple Sky]

The Ezekiel answer comes to mind.

And what is that ?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Not one good person could be found in Sodom & Gomorrah, so what defines a bad person ?

I reckon God wanted to destroy these two cities in order to rid the earth of the remnants of the Nephilim blood lines just as Joshua did.

What do you guys think ?

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Scripture tells us why,

"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it." - Ezekiel 16:49-50

In Genesis the story of Sodom and its destruction is the opposite of the story of Abraham welcoming strangers. When the angels visited Abraham, Abraham welcomed them and prepared an elaborate feast; when the angels went to Sodom they were accosted by a violent mob that wanted to rape them.

The Sodomites are presented as the antithesis of how God's people are to behave. The accosting of the visitors was evidence of Sodom's wickedness, of the way the Sodomites mistreated the hungry, the poor, the needy, and the stranger. By contrast Abraham showed hospitality, feeding the strangers who came to him.

When we look at how Israel was to treat visitors, treat the poor, the hungry, the needy, we see that God's priority was to offer hospitality and welfare. To abuse the poor, to abuse the poor, to abuse the orphan and the widow, to abuse the foreigner are things which regularly incur God's wrath throughout the Old Testament and are frequently presented as being as abhorrent as idolatry. These are an abomination to God.

We can see, again, in the New Testament where the Lord Jesus said that those cities in Judea who reject His disciples will face a harsher judgment than Sodom. And Jesus in Matthew 25 says that how the least are treated--the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned, the stranger--is how we treat Him. And we face Judgment based on how we treat the least of these.

Sodom is an extreme example of absolute wretchedness, of a society that practiced evil to such an extent that they would go out of their way to violate strangers in the most abhorrent and violent manner. A society so wicked that, even after Abraham pleaded to spare the people were there just a handful of righteous men, there remained none. And so God removed them, as Ezekiel says.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[o_mlly]

I'll join the speculations. God so loved the people of Sodom and Gomorrah that He acted to end the evil imputed to their souls in their immoral acts.

 

[BPPLEE]

Lot was found righteous along with his family. This is the whole point , not the possible presence of Nephilim, that there was a remnant to be saved. Also, there is a whole backstory on this.
The conversation between God and Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18:16-33.
In this passage, God tells Abraham that He is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness. Abraham pleads with God to spare the cities, and God agrees to do so if He can find even ten righteous people there. Abraham continues to bargain with God, eventually reducing the number of righteous people needed to save the cities to just one. However, in the end, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, sparing only Lot and his family.

Blessings

I thought it started at 50 and was negotiated down to 10