Izdaari said:
You think you're just quoting the Bible and not expressing an opinion here? No, it doesn't interpret itself; just like reading anything else, it depends on the reader for understanding. You're giving your interpretation of the Bible and your opinion.
So far as why Sodom was destroyed: Read what Jeremiah, Isaiah and Ezekiel said about it. Hint: They don't seem to agree with you. Sure enough, they do lambaste Sodom and Gomorrah for wickedness, but the wickedness they refer to is lack of empathy, lack of hospitality, failure to care for widows and orphans, cruelty and injustice. They barely even mention sexual sin of any sort. That's why "sodomy" is a misnomer; the "sins of Sodom" are not what you think they are.
I have read every verse in the Bible multiple times. And I believe every verse in the Bible. You are woefully mistaken if you believe that the sin of sodomy is not a sexually deviant behavior. God destroyed the city because "the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly." They were wicked. They were sinners. The Lord destroyed them. Simple facts, yes?. God was there and He is the One who destroyed them so His explanation is the record I will believe:
Genesis 19:4-8 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?
bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now,
I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and
do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only
unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
**SEXUAL SIN**
Genesis 19:13 For we will destroy this place,
because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
Genesis 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. For we will destroy this place,
because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
DID YOU NOTICE THE CRY OF THE MEN OF SODOM IN VERSE 5?--- "And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them." The voices of the men of the city (v.4)-- young men, old men; from every quarter, cried out to do an abominable act against other men.
And God calls men who do such vile acts.....
1 Kings 14:24 And there were also
sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
Since you failed to note the CONTEXT of Ezekiel 16, you completely missed to whom God was speaking:
**Ezekiel 16:2,3 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
**Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
**Ezekiel 16:28, 29 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
**Ezekiel 16:45,46 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand:
and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
**Ezekiel 16:49 Behold,
this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Why would you pull verse 49 out of context and claim that the sins being committed by the people of Jerusalem during Ezekiel's time were being committed by the people of Sodom
who had already been destroyed? 
