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  What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?
The LORD also informed Abraham that, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous..." Verses 22-33 record Abraham pleading with the LORD to have mercy on Sodom and Gomorrah because of the fact that Abraham's nephew, Lot, lived in Sodom.
While Sodom and Gomorrah were surely guilty of many other horrendous sins, homosexuality was the reason God poured fiery sulfur on the cities, completely destroying them and all of their inhabitants.
Sodom and Gomorrah serve as a powerful example of how God feels about sin in general, and homosexuality specifically.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah are represented by the constellation Hydra which crosses the equator dividing it in two.
The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities in the valley, and their inhabitants and crops were all destroyed.
Sodom and Gomorrah were Canaanite settlements that practiced cult prostitution consistent with their fertility religions.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah: Where it all began   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They ask Lot where the two male visitors (angels) are and tell Lot to bring them outside so that "we may know them." Lot begs the men of the city not to act so wickedly even offering up his two virgin daughters as a distraction (nice!) rather than have the men touch his guests.
Sodom and the neighboring city, of Gomorrah are destroyed.
The sin of Sodom was taken to be male homogenital acts, and the word sodomite became a word referring to someone who engages in anal sex.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah, according to the Old Testament (Genesis 18, 19), were two ancient cities in Palestine, near the Dead Sea.
With Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar, Sodom and Gomorrah formed the five "cities of the plain", all but the last-named of which are said to have been destroyed by brimstone and fire, perhaps accompanied by an earthquake, because of the indecency and perverse sexual practices of their inhabitants.
He sent two angels to Sodom, and they encountered Lot at the gates of the city.
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 Sodom & Gomorrah
Sodom was large enough that 50 people would be a small percentage of its population (Gen. 18:26), but small enough that its army, when combined with that of the neighboring 4 cities, was inferior to Abraham's army of 318 men (Gen. 14).
Sodom and Gomorrah and their accompanying cities are now flooded under the Southern end of the Dead Sea.
Sodom and Gomorrah, along with their accompanying cities of the plain were actually located above the valley of the Dead Sea in five elevated spots, each corresponding to a river/wadi.
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 The Meaning of Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom is a city which illustrates what Paul describes in Romans Chapter One: a culture with blatant sexual immorality, promiscuity, violence and open debauchery.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities that were destroyed were therefore in the plain of Jordan, the vale of Siddim which was in the Salt Sea way back in Moses time.
'Behold,' says the prophet, 'this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Jude 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.
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 6. Sodom & Gomorrah
At the time Sodom and Gomorrah existed, we are told that where the Dead Sea now is, was a "vale" or valley that was full of "slime pits," meaning it oozed bitumen.
Sodom and Gomorrah and their fate was not a fairy tale.
Kyle described the area of Sodom and Gomorrah perfectly, except he called the ashen remains, "marl," which is an earthy deposit used as fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the sins of their inhabitants Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim were destroyed by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven" (Genesis 13:13; 18:20; 19:24, 29; Hosea 11:8).
Sodom was one of a group of five towns, the Pentapolis (Wisdom 10:6): Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela -- also called Zoar (Genesis 19:22).
The historical existence of Sodom and Gomorrah is still in dispute by archaeologists, with most believing they never existed, some believing they are now under the Dead Sea, and others claiming that they have been found (under other names) in the region to the southeast of the Dead Sea.
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 Daily Bible Study - Gomorrah
Gomorrah was the name of an ancient city in Judea that is always mentioned in the Holy Bible with Sodom.
The English name Gomorrah is derived from the New Testament Greek name for the city, pronounced gom-or-rah-haw which itself was derived from the more ancient Old Testament Hebrew name for the city, pronounced am-oh-raw which meant a heap, from agricultural usage meaning a heap of grain or a heap of manure.
The location of Gomorrah is thought by many to have been on a plain that is today submerged by the southern half of the Dead Sea (shown in the photo).
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 Did Sodom and Gomorrah Really Exist?
Sodom and Gomorrah, however, were a part of a larger agricultural confederation of cities which were known as the cities of the plain.
The grapes of Sodom and Gomorrah are referred to in Deuteronomy 32:32 and the sin of Sodom mentioned in Ezekiel 16:49 was that they were over-fed.
Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, Deuteronomy 29:23; Hosea 11:8.
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 Sodom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sodom (Final Fight), a character from Street Fighter and Final Fight
"Sodom, South Georgia", a song by Iron and Wine
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, a 1975 film by Pasolini based on Sade's book
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sodom and Gomorrha
Sodom, a city of Pentapolis (Wisdom 10:6; Genesis 14:2): Sodom, Gomorrha, Adama, Seboim, and Bala -- later called Segor (Genesis 19:22).
Since then, their names are synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's just wrath (Deuteronomy 29:23; 32:32; Isaiah 1:10 sqq.
The Septuagint rendering katestrephe (Genesis 19:25) probably led to the erroneous opinion that the destruction of Sodom was accompanied by great upheavals of the earth, and even to the formation of the Dead Sea.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14130a.htm   (201 words)

  
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The location of the cities Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the sources of debate among biblical archeologists and geologists alike.
There are those like Ron and Mary Nell Wyatt that believe that Sodom and Gomorrah are located near the Dead Sea and the ruins have been located, while others such as Graham Harris believe the cities were built right at the edge of the sea and the ruins are to be found underwater.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go-mor'rah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
geology.wcedu.pima.edu /~hgluski/webpag2.html   (736 words)

  
 Sodom and Gomorrah
Modern history revisionists have even used the Sodom example to name the act of sodomy (sexual intercourse involving anal or oral copulation) as a means of identifying the latter as the most heinous of crimes.
In the context of history, however, Sodom and Gomorrah, were not wholly different from Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Basically, Sodom and Gomorrah were bombed into oblivion with the use of nuclear or atomic weaponry.
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 Lesson: Sodom and Gomorrah
Abraham was such a man. And he is the central character in the powerful story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the thirteen programs in the Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible series.
God did hate the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but they hated God by sinning against him, sinning against themselves, and sinning against other people.
www.ebibleteacher.com /children/lessons/OT/Genesis/SodomGomorrah.htm   (628 words)

  
 Sodom and Gomorrah
The traditional explanation for the supernatural destruction of the ancient cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19, has been God's displeasure and wrath against the sin of homosexuality.
However, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were very unhospitable to those less fortunate than themselves, and there is strong Biblical evidence that this is why God destroyed them.
I tell you the truth, it will be bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town." While it is not stated directly, the issue they are talking about here is inhospitality, and Jesus refers to Sodom and Gomorrah as past references.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
On the western side of the Dead Sea lie the remains of two ashen cities, one at the base of Mt. Masada, and the other at the base of Mt. Sodom.
Several oxydized bronze spearheads were found and even a skeleton that had completely turned to ash was found in Sodom.
II Peter 2:6 "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly".
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace
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.
www.throneofgod.com /Sodom/sg.html   (439 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sodom & Gomorrah: Video: Stewart Granger,Pier Angeli,Stanley Baker,Rossana Podestà,Rik Battaglia,Giacomo ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah embodied all these human failings and were a natural for the Hollywood film makers to latch on to as subject material once the "sword and sandal", movie craze gripped Hollywood in the late 1950's and early 60's.
However complications begin when they discover that their neighbours across the river are the notorius twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah who are ruled by Queen Bera (Anouk Aimee) with the often not welcome assistance of her treacherous brother Astaroth (Stanley Baker).
If there was one theme that is highlighted in "Sodom and Gomorrah", it is the clash of cultures and sets of ideals and the emotions that it often sets off.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven: and he overthrown those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities and that, which grew upon the ground.
And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of the furnace.
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 Bible Study - The Destruction Of Sodom
The location of Sodom, along with Gomorrah and the other "cities of the plain" is subject to speculation.
What is known for certain is that it was somewhere east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the area of the Dead Sea, also known as the The Salt Sea.
The entire story of Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis chapters 18 and 19, along with numerous other references throughout the Bible.
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 Sodom & Gomorrah
Above at left is brimstone with a burned, hardened shell that has the unburned sulfur inside, and next to it is brimstone without a burned shell.
Gomorrah is located at the base of Masada, and in 1998, additional formations were found in Jordan on the opposite of the Dead Sea from Gomorrah in the Lisan Peninsula, including a large cemetery area containing 1,000,000 graves.
A spear head and a cache of burned gold which is now gold salts, burned bones, jars, and tile have also been found by others who have visited the cities.
www.arkdiscovery.com /sodom_&_gomorrah.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah were corrupted with fornication and homosexuality, and they were boasting of it!
It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
and Sodom was destroyed by a rain of fire and sulfur from the heavens (Gn.19:24).
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 Sodom and Gomorrah
Abraham and Lot were so wealthy that they had to separate because the land could not support both of them with all their family members, herds, and workers in one place Lot chose to move his family to the twin cities.
Neither the tribe of Benjamin nor the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were punished because of homosexuality.
What the men of Sodom were going to do to the angels in Genesis was what the men of Gibeah did to the traveler's concubine in Judges.
www.christiangay.com /he_loves/sodom.htm   (2818 words)

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