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(1)The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. (2)"My Lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning."
"No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."
(3)But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. (4)Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom both young and old surrounded the house. (5)They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
(6)Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him (7)and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. (8)Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
(9)"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
(10)But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
(11)Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
(Jude 6 & 7; 2 Peter 2: 4 & 68)
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If the men of Sodom were all homosexual, how could there be young and old present? Someone must have been having heterosexual relations on the side or there wouldn't be young men present.
If the men of Sodom were homosexual, why would Lot offer his two daughters? Wouldn't it have made more sense to offer his two future sons-in-law?
These two questions, although not
terribly important in and of themselves, do raise another interesting question.
If the men of the town were not all gay (Scripture never indicates they were and from a social and historical point of view it is hard to believe they could have all been gay.), why would they have attempted to do this kind of thing? The
Bible offers no clues as to the motive.
However, there are two possible motives that may be construed from history and Scripture. These are my own thoughts and so need to be viewed in that light. I
claim no special revelation or insight.
In Genesis 14 we find a war taking
place. To make a long story short, the bad cities attacked the good cities and defeated them. They plundered the good cities and carried off the people. Now,
included among the good cities (at that time), was Sodom. Sodom's people, including Lot, were kidnapped. Abram (soon to be known as Abraham) went after the bad guys, defeated them and rescued the people. Sodom should have been grateful... and was for a time.
In Genesis 14:2123 we find
the following exchange:
(21)The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."
(22)But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and
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earth, and have taken an oath(23)that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich.'