The Restoration of Sodom

Christians (& others) are upset about the upcoming Gay Pride event to be held in June at the Dead Sea .   According to Ezekiel, Sodom & Gomorrah will be restored .    According to Matthew , hey will rise up in the Judgment to testify against those to whom much more was given & from whom much is consequently required.   The churches have ignored Romans 1:18 - 32 for over 1000 years.     God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness & unrighteousness of men who have, since the dawn of time, routinely, chronically, systematically, & systemically suppressed the truth about God’s INVISIBLE attributes & supplanted that truth via substituting their own VISIBLE attributes &/or others drawn from the created order then reasoning accordingly as to theology, philosophy, & ethics.   The only road to the term “natural”    in Romans 1:26 - 27 meaning “heteronormative” & “unnatural” meaning “hom...
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Tackling Tradition 74: Levitcus 21:9 & 20:13

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.  (Leviticus 21:9, ESV)


If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them (Leviticus 20:13, ESV)


Village Skeptics will sometimes use these & similar texts as evidence that God is misogynistic homophobe.  Others use the text of Leviticus 20:13 to justify the persecution & execution of homosexuals. 


Nothing could be further from the truth. 

In the case of Leviticus 21:9, yes this sounds misogynistic & brutal.  “See how this destroys women?” says the Village Skeptic.   


The people in the original audience & both their immediate forebears,  & many generations that followed, lived in a polytheistic world in which women were used as cultic prostitutes.  Men (Leviticus 20:13) were known to do temple prostitution & similar activities too. 


Laws like these are designed to protect both women & men from exploitation by kings, warlords, & priests.    Turning a son or daughter into a temple prostitute could carry a heavy price.   When you think about it, God, as the Suzerain Creator-Deliverer is, in a sense, holding the sons & daughters among His people hostage (figuratively).   


We are created in God’s own image. We are supposed to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, & strength first, then all others next, then ourselves. God here is gambling that the men in control of Hebrew society will love & value their children enough not to exploit them through turning them into cultic prostitutes.     Far from devaluing human life, these laws are meant to be deterrents to temple prostitution & similar activities.   They are there to protect & preserve children in general as well as adults.  


O LORD, Hear Our Prayer(s) —- especially in regards to human trafficking, prostitution, witchcraft, sorcery, & the abuse of children & their (and other) angels & animals. 

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