They assure me that God may have wrath, but it's not wrath for petty rules that have violated God. He's bigger than that. No, it's for Man's inhumanity to Man. The mind set on the flesh would call that reasonable. Jude says the Lord is coming "to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him" (Jude 1:15). So, who are you going to believe? The "reasonable" ones or Scripture?
They tell me that God did not punish Sodom and Gomorrah for sexual sin. It was for inhospitality. God said, "Behold, 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" (Ezek 16:49). "See," they tell me, "it was for not helping the poor and needy and not for sexual immorality, let alone homosexual behavior." But Jude, using Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of God's judgment, says they, "indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire [and] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire" (Jude 1:7). So they pit Scripture against Scripture and ignore one for the other. Who are you going to believe? The "quasi-biblical" ones, or Scripture?
Peter warned extensively about the false teachers (2 Peter 2) that Jesus promised (Matt 7:15-20) and John warned about (1 John 2:18-20) and Paul predicted (2 Tim 3:1-9). Paul followed his warning with a remedy. "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work" (2 Tim 3:16-17). Who are you going to believe?
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When I hear "Christians" talking like that, I get a sudden urge to get a whip and start overturning tables.
As a note to readers, when I point out that Jude says God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for sexual sin, that is not to say that there was no other reason. What we find is that one side says, "Ezekiel was right" with the requirement that Jude is, therefore, wrong. I specified that the wrong conclusion was to pit Scripture against Scripture and ignore one for the other. If you asked me why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, I'd tell you that it was for their rampant sin which included having much but not sharing and sexual sin -- specifically homosexual sin. Not "either/or," but "both/and." Until you can correlate Scripture with Scripture, you're not holding Scripture to a high view.
Seems I've read that in Ezekiel, there's the mention of "detestable things" which some say is a reference to the sexual sins committed there. I'll have to do research to back it up, but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
That's alright, we're free to ignore Scripture now. It's just a man-made book with no authority.
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