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ย @nadiar.7788ย God never told Solomon to have multiple wives, but he did ask him what he did want, and he said he wanted wisdom, and as a result he was the known as the wisest man on earth, and seemingly with that God-given wisdom he accumulated a whole host of females! ๐
On the other hand, one could view it that it was the females that caused him to lose that wisdom! God never told millions of Gentile denominational Christians to hold a day on the first day of the working week to venerate the resurrection either, but men will do as THEY see fit.
If God's Son is the SAME yesterday, today and forever, how come His holy given Name, YESHUA, which means "salvation," has CHANGED COMPLETELY into the man-made transmogrified name "Jesus" which He would never have heard in His lifetime? Men will do as THEY see fit. ๐
God's Commandments are righteous and everlasting, yet I know that countless professing Christians totally disregard the Fourth Commandment concerning keeping the SEVENTH DAY holy as the Sabbath of the LORD, which even Yeshua said was "made for MAN," and which He reiterated in the New Testament by saying it was "LAWFUL to do good on the SABBATH."
I do recall Sodom & Gomorrah ("S'DOM & AMORAH") and most Christians misapply the story to be an exclusively male homosexual plot, and thus even words like "Sodomy" and "Sodomite" have entered the English vocabulary as words to describe gay people, often very pejoratively by self-righteous Christian ministers and by heterosexual homophobes within "straight" society.
This all stems down to one small word in Genesis 19:4 where the English Bibles read that "MEN" surrounded Lot's house wanting to carnally "know" the two angels who had come there.
However, Hebrew is a very chauvinistic language, and plurals are always written exclusively as MALE, unless it is a group of ONLY FEMALES, then the word will be spelt as a FEMALE PLURAL.
However, for gatherings of BOTH MALES AND FEMALES, the group would be described as MALE, as in this instance as "MEN," which in some cases could be ONLY MEN, but we can only know from context, and so we must look for it in the passage. There are different words for "MEN"/"MAN" in Hebrew, such as ADAM, GEVERIM, ISH, and ANASHIM, all with differing roots giving them different nuances. The word used here is ANASHIM, which is related to root word ANUSH, meaning "HUMAN," not just strictly "male," but more accurately describes "PEOPLE."
But this "MEN" anomaly gets repeated throughout Scripture when describing MIXED-SEX groups of people as "MEN," such as "men of Jerusalem" at the Day of Pentecost in Acts, and "men of Galilee" when the angels addressed the crowd after the Ascension on the Mount of Olives.
These were not "men only" events, even though the word "men" is used and rendered so in English. The same applies when the New Testament refers to "sons of God," it does not mean that no women will get to heaven or receive salvation. We come across this male plural in the Bible.
However, this is DOUBLY backed up in the Sodom verse (19:4) as it ALSO has the SINGULAR word for "PEOPLE," in English when it cites "PEOPLE from every quarter" (of the city), and not only "MEN"!
However, narrow-minded bigotted people will not want to hear this truth. This is the small Hebrew word "AM," as in "AM ISRAEL" or the "PEOPLE OF ISRAEL," so even if you insist that the word ANASHIM is 100% "MEN" (even though it is not elsewhere in Scripture), this secondary usage of the word "PEOPLE" clearly proves that this was an event concerning "PEOPLE," and not just a gathering of exclusively male homosexuals. Why would Lot offer his daughters to a crowd of homosexuals?! ๐ค
Rather, the fate of Sodom (and Gomorrah, for it was not linked to the event at Lot's house) was decided by God in the PREVIOUS CHAPTER when Abraham bargains with God on behalf of his nephew Lot to save the cities, but it was revealed that there were not even 5 righteous people in the two cities (apart from Abraham's relatives) and so their fate was sealed. It was already PREDETERMINED before this incident outside Lot's house. If it was only concerning that, then God owes Gomorrah an apology, for they were not even involved in it. ๐
The truth is that the whole city (or both cities) were corrupt and depraved, and although I am sure homosexuality and lesbianism was practised there alongside every other kind of sexual deviation, such as adultery, fornication, lust, orgies, incest, voyeurism, bestiality etc etc.
This crowd were bent on sexually molesting these two angelic visitors that Jude mentions as going after "strange flesh." The Hebrew grammar shows that this is a MIXED-SEX gathering.
So, you ask me to recall Sodom & Gomorrah, and I do, but not in the same exclusively homosexual way that most Gentile Christians do, who are focussed only on the word "men."
That in know way lessens the gravity of where the Bible proscribes homosexuality in both the Old and New Testaments, so it is not a "get out clause," but just an honest reading of the text.
I spent time explaining this to my father, who replied, "I still prefer it the old way"! ๐
Man-made influence holds strong, even over the authority and truth of Scripture, which is why Yeshua said that the TRADITIONS OF MEN make the Word of God of none-effect.
Thus is true here of the intetpretation of Sodom, of cancelling out the Sabbath of the LORD, in favour of the uncommanded "Sun"-day named after the SUN but not the SON, and replacing the Passover of the LORD, on which date Yeshua died and asked to remember His atoning DEATH, not ever His birth or resurrection, "as often as ye do this" i.e. celebrate Passover, not "do this as often as you like," which is basically what happens in most Gentile churches on their Roman "moveable" feast of "Easter," named after the pagan godess Eostre/Eastre with weekly and annual "Lord's Suppers" being held at breakfast time when it is illegal normally to drink wine.
God may not change, but Christians have changed much about Him and His Word in order to fit into their own doctrine. At the Name of YESHUA every knee shall bow, but who will know it? ๐คฏ
Shavua tov - have a good week! ๐ค
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