Have you forgotton what GOD did to SODOM and GOMORRAH and WHY?
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He provided a warning before his judgement, and made arrangement to preserve the faithful. Sounds familiar!
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Genesis 13:13\n\n13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.\n\nGenesis 19:4-13\n\n4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."\n\n 6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."\n\n 9 "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.\n\n 10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.\n\n 12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."\n\n\nBasically they were all homosexuals and God burned them to the ground.
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Your question is what lessons are learned from the story of Lot. I know that there are some gross situations here, but let me explain my take on this story. I am a Christian though not an expert and have been listening to this story all of my life. Lot chose the well watered plains of Sodom and Gamorrah - he was given a choice, and he chose the "easy" path instead of following God's plan. He went into the cities and became involved in the sinful atmosphere of these cities (knowing that God would not approve). He had raised his family there, so when God had had enough and sent the angels to warn Lot to get out, he had a very hard time convincing his family (let alone others) that they needed to leave. When Lot offered his daughters in lieu of the angels, Lot knew God would punish him for allowing any acts of homosexuality to take place (it is an abomination to God). Lot had sinned by not following God, and the sin followed him throughout the remainder of his life - this teaches me that when you sin (even though God firgives sin), the effects of that sin hurt you personally, it hurts your family (wife and daughters), and it destroys your testimony before others (especially the unsaved whom we are trying to live an example for). If you trace all of the descendants of Lot (even the descendants of his daughters) you find no outstanding people living for God. The original sin of Lot's turn from God by going into the cities and sin, provided a direction for the outcome of all the other happenings in his life. He never regained control of his life, and, as a result, was never used of God for the furtherance of God's work. Lot was human just like you and I, and if it weren't for the grace of God, I could be in the same boat. Any time we turn from God's ways and direction, we are sinning, and we will reap the results of what we have sewn.
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Both. God made man, man forgot God, man uses God as a convenient excuse for his desires/actions.
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God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I believe He did this to sear their souls with the knowledge that He exists. Just as we all have a sinful nature, we also all know that God exists. If a person has not been told the truth, they have to interpret this understanding in their own way... hence idols and cults and religions that worship all kinds of things.\n\nEven an athiest calls out to God in moments of terror.
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Abram had this hot wife.  Then he took her to Egypt and said that she was his sister.  The lord got his panties in a bunch over this and inflicted diseases on the Pharaoh of Egypt and his people.  the Pharaoh kicked Abram and his hot wife out of Egypt.\n\nIf you read into it. You'll see how the lord inflicts misery on his people for the most trivial of things.  It is another example that shows that god is a man-made creation.
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Moses may have been hallucinating from lack of water and food up on the mountain when he chisled out the ten commandments and "Talked with God". People in those sorts of states very often don't make much sense...
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The first thing Noah did after the flood was to get drunk. No it didn’t work.\n\nGod wiped out every evil on the planet with a great flood, or did he?..\n\nWell somehow evil managed to slip through. Was it a stowaway? Maybe Mr. evil was hiding among the giraffes and hippopotamuses.\n\nAnyway God did make a few mistakes…\n\n1) Created man (he repented for that one in Genesis and I forgive him)\n2) Caused a worldwide flood (surely there must have been a few babies among all the evil people. He hasn’t repent for that one so I can’t help him)
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No where, actually.\n\nLook... most people, even priests and pastors, misinterpret the passages about homosexuality.\n\nThe story of Sodom and Gomorrah? That's a warning against rape and inhospitality. The reason for Sodom's destruction is made clear in Ezekiel 16:48-50. According to Ezekiel, the sins of Sodom were pride, laziness, being inhospitable, neglecting the needs of the poor, greed, and idolatry (the worshipping of idols). Nothing about homosexuality is mentioned.\n\nLeviticus? Those passages were part of the Holiness Code which has been done away with and is no longer binding to modern-day Christians (or anyone else for that matter).\n\n1 Corinthians? Mistranslation - the word malakee in this passage is used elsewhere in the Bible to mean someone who lacks discipline or one who is morally weak, and never is it used in reference to sexuality or gender.\n\n1 Timothy? Also a mistranslation. 1 Timothy was an admonishment against male prostitution, not committed, loving same sex relationships.\n\nRomans? In the passage the Greek words physin and paraphysin have been translated to mean natural and unnatural respectively. Contrary to popular belief, the word paraphysin does not mean "to go against the laws of nature", but rather implies action which is uncharacteristic for that person. An example of the word paraphysin is used in Romans 11:24, where God acts in an uncharacteristic (paraphysin) way to accept the Gentiles. When the scripture is understood correctly, it seems to imply that it would be unnatural for heterosexuals to live as homosexuals, and for homosexuals to live as heterosexuals.
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In deciding that, consider Moses, who couldn't enter the Promise Land as a result of just one sin.  The question is whether his sin was what he did, or thinking that because of all the good he did that one sin wouldn't count?  Never assume to know what God may or may not think of something.
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Where do you come up with this stuff?! You're hilarious! Does God scream, "Oh Me! Oh Me!"?
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That list of all the Bible parts listed as "the thinking of God" is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.\nBible is full of contradictions. \nThe Ancient Testament says also that killing in the name of God is right.\nIs good also to have sex with your daughter or your son.\n\nChrist never said anything of that. We are Cristians.\n\nYou should study some antropology before telling other people that they're living in sin. In ancient times it was a shame to give away your sperma without having a child.\n\nLove is never a sin. Sex connected to love is never a sin. Sex is not a sin.\nVIOLENCE is sin!
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Read Numbers 16.  God opened the ground and swallowed Korah, his followers and their families.  He also sent fire from the sky to kill the rest of the 250.  You would think the rest of the Israelites learned their lesson...but they complained and whined the very next day and God sent a plague of death sweeping across the camps until Aaron atoned for their sins.
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god murdered his bastard(no offense meant... check the dictionary) son... \n\nthe bible god is a middle eastern old wart that has an iq of 66
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If you're referring to Sodom and Gomorrah, that just wiped out a couple of cities that incurred divine wrath. it didn't wipe out sin.
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It's no mystery.  The old testament covers Jewish morality.  Start with the ten commandments, for example.  You know Jewish morality already, you just don't realize it.
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I'm sorry I thought I made it clear.\nYES.\nThanks to the intercession of Moses God repented and did not destroy the children of Israel.