I had several interesting thoughts when looking into Sodom and Gomorrah. Within the past year at my church at home we had explored this story and other stories that some biblical scholars have interpreted to have a stance on homosexuality. This deep dive put to rest any uncertainties I’ve had regarding the issues. I think that groups that denounce homosexuality, specifically in a biblical sense, are really only looking at the scripture at face value. When we look at the organizations described in the article about Sodom and Gomorrah and the internet I see a lot of problems with them. The biggest of these problems is that they seem to be looking for something in the Bible that agrees with the formulations that they have come up with, generally speaking the opinion that they straight out don’t like gay people whether it’s blatant or not, rather than truly trying to interpret what the text means. With all the parables and proverbs in the Bible we know that the authors were not strangers to figurative and sometimes vague writing and it seems to me that these people really don’t want to know the true word of God but rather back their own opinions using his text.
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