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! Introduction:
An In-depth Study on Homosexuality*
It seems that they believe in homosexuality and are now trying to have the Bible approve it, rather than letting the Bible speak.
So often, what does that have to do with the passage or CONTEXT!
 
*/Why Study:/*
1.     Bills in the California Legislature:
16 Bills this year
a few one vote shy of passing
AB 257: Up to 50k for lawsuits against business plus call it an official civil right
AB 1059 Private insurances forced to cover these partners as a family
AB 310 Prohibit Church from non-hiring practices~/ audit to prove no discrimination in past!
2.
More writings by Evangelicals supporting this practice
3.     Be ready to give a defense of the truth, speaking the truth in Love.
4.     Society has been duped in believing that 10% of the population is gay
-The Kinsey Report of 1948 established that falsehood
-Reality is 1 ½ to 2%
-The University of Chicago National Opinion Research Corporation set it at 7~/10 of 1%
 
 
 
I.
*Gen 18:16-19:29 Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:4ff)*
 
A.
Three Homosexual Views
1.     Dr Hart:
 
*/“The key issue, why did God destroy the two cities.
The common assumption is homosexuality.
Three other sound possibilities: 1.
The general wickedness mentioned in the previous chapter.
2.
Attempted rape of the guests, and   3.
Inhospitality.
The last is Biblical scholarship’s generally preferred interpretation today.
Sodom is used as a symbol of evil in dozens of subsequent Scripture references.
In none of these passages is homosexuality named as one of its sins;  Inhospitality is or pride greed and neglect of the poor.
Englishman D Sherwin Bailey argues the same way in Homosexuality in the Western Christian tradition as does John Boswell in Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality.”  /*(He is a Yale University Professor) 
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2.     The last two texts argues that the men wanted to interrogate the visitors, “know them” (yada), because they thought they were spies.
3.
Or: The sin was gang rape and not homosexuality, in a broader sense they were inhospitable.
II.
*Why did God destroy the cities????*
A.   Gen 18:20
1.
The outcry was great and they were extremely wicked.
2.     There were not even ten righteous people in the city, and if you take Lot’s family as six people, there were not even four others who were righteous.
3.
These people were totally depraved and irredeemable.
4.     Lot’s influence was extremely limited.
B.
Gen 18:16-19 A Lesson for Righteousness for Abraham
1.     God was going to raise up a nation which would be a holy nation.
C.    2 Peter 2:6-10
1.     Notice the things mentioned:
a.      example for the ungodly (vs 6)
b.     filthy conduct (vs 7)
c.      tormented his righteous soul of the things he saw and heard (vs 8)
d.     walk according to the flesh (sensual) in the lust of uncleanness (vs 19)
 
D.
Jude 7
1.
Notice these terms:
a.      given over to sexual immorality
b.     gone after strange flesh
c.      set forth as an example
 
2.
Some see this as angels who had sex with women in Gen 6.
 
 
III.
*Response to the Homosexual Position*
A.   Interrogation
1.     Sexual act- Lot was ready to give over his daughter.
2.     He said they did no know a many yet (19:8) surely does not mean they have not interrogated a man yet!!!!
3.     Homosexuals- From young and old from all over the quarters and then even when blinded they persisted.
-This shows they were totally given over to a lifestyle and enslaved to sexual sins.
*The Term Yeda*
*1.     **“yeda”- to know is determined on the context:*
*a.     **Is Lot saying, don’t do this wicked deed, interrogate my daughters.*
*b.     **He mentions they are virgins (19:8).*
*c.      **He mentions they have not yet known a man, is he saying they haven’t yet interrogated a man up to this point.*
*d.     **Gen 4:1 yeda- have sexual relations*
B.    Gang Rape, thus Inhospitality
1.     God was going to judge them before this point, not for this incident of sexual perversion.
2.     He said their cry has come up before me continually (18:20).
3.     Would God annihilate two cities for bad manners, nowhere in the Scriptures is Inhospitality a capitol crime, but homosexuality is.
Would God destroy these cities for a non-capitol crime of Inhospitality and not destroy it for a capitol crime of homosexuality.
4.     To say they were inhospitable is to say the least, it is true they were inhospitable, but they were much more than that.
To say they were inhospitable is to say accuse a man who is driving drunk, 110 miles an hour down a 25 mile an hour street right when the children are walking home as a bad driver!!!
5.     Would God destroy two cities for being inhospitable.
The Use of Ezekiel 16:49
1.     Context:
a.
You must look at verse 50 as well!!!!
b.     Do you think God would kill for not taking care of the poor when you have abundance.
c.
It was an abomination.
IV.
*Additional Passages*
A.   Lev 18:20 & 20:13
B.    The Homosexual View by Dr Hart:
 
*/“Leviticus is not generally go for our moral instruction.
Most Christians have probably never read it or even had bits of it read to them at worship.
It is the central thesis of Paul that Jesus has freed us from the Law.
Leviticus is that book of the Law which specifically to do with cult (sacrifice, ritual, priesthood, purity), it is in this regard that it touches on homosexuality.
The Hebrew word “toavah” is a cultic and not a moral term.
The English abomination means abhorrent, loathsome, unspeakably bad.
“Toavah” does not mean that at all it means ritually unclean.
Eating pork is “toavah,” having sex with a menstruating women is “toavah.”
You cannot come to worship after doing these things until you have been purified.
Nor does the naming of the death penalty  mark homosexuality as particularly heinous.
Also punishable by death in the Law is disobedience to parents, no age specified, picking up sticks on the Sabbath, adultery and many other actions.”
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