Chapter 2: Those Infamous Cities
Genesis 19 records God’s
judgment upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. (We get the term sodomy from the type of sin most
associated with them.) DeYoung answers the revisionists who suggest that what
led to the cities’ destruction by God was not homosexuality, but violence and
social injustice. He documents how
Scripture itself (in Ezekiel 16 and Jude) and second century Jewish
literature support
the traditional understanding of Genesis 19. God's wrath may have fallen upon Sodom and Gomorrah for many sins, but certainly homosexual practice was at the rotten center of it all.
the traditional understanding of Genesis 19. God's wrath may have fallen upon Sodom and Gomorrah for many sins, but certainly homosexual practice was at the rotten center of it all.
A quote: Sodom and Gomorrah were guilty
of a great many sins; we don’t have to prove that homosexual practices was the
only sin to show that it was one of them. (p. 38)
