Christians only: Would God have destroyed this city?
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Yes I believe so. God also tell us that homosexuality is wrong so being peaceful does not excuse this.
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Well, I must tell you its quite disgusting and it's not natural!!!!\n\nSodom and Gommorah, cities which did exist, were rained on by God with fire and sulfur.  Yeah, that sounds like something God approves of.\n\n2 Corinthians 6: 9,10.  Along with drunkards, and fornicators, "men who lay down with men" will NOT inherit God's Kingdom
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NO He did not! If He had then He could not be the savior. Mat. 27:46; Mark 15:34; He asked God "... why hast THOU forsaken me?" He did not say that He (Jesus) had forsaken God.
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More than likely he was just there to bathe in the river anyway.Maybe some would argue about humbling himself before John the Baptist as a gesture of respect for him and what he did.Jesus had said that what you do to the least of these you do to me also.I don't have an issue with it. You're reading way too much into something without knowing the truth. This is a negative application you are applying so you're fishing in a toilet for excuses. Unless you had witnessed everything from that time without prejudice it's difficult to usually grasp it without faith. From the perspective of immortality one death on a cross to start a religion seems to be a safe bet.Mortals usually only understand living sacrifice as an example of faith or honor. A virgin woman represents an undefiled vessel or purity. Would it sound better to you if she was just the babysitter? This isn't a sitcom drama you know.
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That would be like atheists burning a town because somebody painted a cartoon of Charles Darwin. Yikes!
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Hmm, yeah, that's a very interesting point! Why not just trust "god" to protect him? Now, would that be a sin? Because if it was gods will for him to die, than he's preventing that from happening, right? but if god was "almighty" then he could give him a heart attack or something...but then if he's that powerful, why the need for bulletproof...round and round we go....I need chocolate!  :) smart question btw!
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!\nI think that sums it up in (in a nut shell) in this case at least.\nHe was a Christian by the way!!
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It also says that God is VERY angry.  The bible clearly describes how he brought plagues, floods, and firestorms to kill thousands of people.  He also had millions more killed in the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust.  In the Bible people are supposed to be stoned for violating any one of the hundred biblical laws.  If the church got its way then very few of us would still be alive.  It is a good thing they lost the power to execute people at will without any justification.  I hear the church is still bitter about that fact.
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:}\nWe would probably do no better than they did\nwe would probably even crucify Jesus all over again.
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Yeah, it's interesting, if you think about it. God can find a lover for some random lady in Oklahoma but he can't (or won't, whatever) prevent or stop disasters. Some crazy lady came on here earlier and tried to say that God DELIBERATELY didn't do anything about the Holocaust, because the Jews were wrong about Christ. Seriously, that kind of logic makes me shudder.
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AMEN! Can you imagine the good that could be done with all the money wasted on real estate, maintenance, utilities, buildings, etc. all in the name of Church.  What if we gave up all the buildings and met in smaller groups like in Acts 2.3 and 4?  What if we used all the money that saved and help the poor, the orphans, widows and perform the ministry of Jesus?  Wow, what a concept!
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I've never heard anyone blame God for anything.\n\nI think the general rule of thumb is that we (the opposition) generally wonder why, if God is all-loving, AND all-powerful, AND all-merciful, AND all-compassionate,etc... does he not step in to STOP (or at least intervene in) the 'destruction and unexplained deaths'. \n\nThere is no answer for that. The whole claim is perposterous!\nI think if anything good did happen - we would jump up and down looking for the 'God' behind it. But so far.... the well has been found to be dry and wanting.
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I am surprised by the amount of Christians that answered this question that apparently have not read their bible.  Yes it does say that in the bible, in the old testament in the laws that God gave to Moses.  Although it does give different scenarios like if the woman is raped inside the city she should be stoned to death because she should call out for help before it happens but if she is outside the city where there is no one to call for help, then she has committed no sin and should not be put to death.\n\nNo wonder people don't want to convert to Christianity when supposed Christians answer this way and apparently have not read what they claim to preach.
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Not a good idea.\n\nExtremist Religious Fanatics will come and blow it up.
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onefootnaked:  I'm absolutely certain that God intended for humans to not travel any faster than their legs or the legs of beasts of burden can carry them....   however, most of us use cars, trains, and airplanes for transportation.\n\nI'm fairly certain that God intended for humans to not build skyscrapers <even stopped people from doing it in the bible> yet every major city has them...  some of us even work inside them.\n\nI'm relatively certain that to be a Christian like Jesus described his followers, we should give away all that we have, leave our families behind, and just follow Christ....  however I have never met the person who did that.\n\nTo answer the question here, abomination, in the bible really means "things hated by god."  But it doesn't matter.  Many things are listed in the Bible as an abomination, yet nobody seems to care until gay people want to be left alone.\n\nThe apostle Paul said that christians shouldn't get married, that it was better if they could live celibate lives like he did.  But you don't notice any Christians trying to ban straight marriage.\n\nThe truth is it doesn't matter what the Bible says about homosexuality.  It says so many crazy things that even if it said in clear and precise language that "god hates fags." I wouldn't pay it much attention.\n\nIt's not about god or christianity.  It's about people loving people.  Anybody against people loving people doesn't matter.
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There's apparently a big debate about this. If you're part of an older church, then yeah, God would've given the smackdown before rapture. Newer churches take the view of the rapture occurring before the mayhem begins.
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Fair enough, now are you going to post all the acts of evil perpetrated in the name of Christianity.  See 34 AD to Present.\n\nNote: Big Pen, the answer was meant to be sarcastic, however, Christianity still has much to answer for.