Sodom and Gomorrah—Repeated Today (but not how people think)
The real sin of Sodom and Gomorrah according to the Scriptures – Ezekiel 16:49 “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.”
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Dr. David A. Palmer; your self-proclaimed definitive interpretation of Sodom and Gomorrah boxes God’s message. To claim God’s judgment excludes sexual immorality is to claim you alone hold exclusive knowledge of God. And dear sir, that knowledge you do not have. Yes, love the sinner and hate the sin, but also lean not on your own understanding.
Unless you experienced a culture of pervasive sexual immorality, then you have not experienced the violence, intolerance, and hatred of that community. If you want to see such abuse, you need only look to Toronto, Canada and what is occurring with Pastor David Lynn. There, the self-righteous and self-idolaters of the LGBTQIA+ community assaulted Pastor David. Lynn. The pervasive culture of sexual immorality promotes self-abuse and to respond violently against the Word of God. In that violent response is often sexual gestures and threats of rape. They brand God’s elect that are born-again in the Holy Spirit as a hate group. If you want to see true evil and blasphemy against God, go preach on a street corner during a Gay Pride event and tell them that God rejects the sin of sexual immorality. And if you truly love the LGBTQIA+ community, go preach on the street corner during a Gay Pride event and tell them that regardless of their sin, God loves them, so much so that he sent his one and only Son, not to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Respectfully,
Mr. Martin Braun
John 3:19 (KJV)
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Proverbs 3:5-6 King James Version (KJV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Matthew 23:8-12 (NIV)
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.