Did Sodom and Gommorah deserve to get zapped?

[Dawnofhope]

I certainly don't see the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as literal, its a metaphor, its when we are in our lower carnal state, that we don't see what is truly within, when we are immersed in the senses of the body such as sex, we again forget our true inner Self, our connection to God.

There's certainly potential to go down a massive black hole with this story if we want to take it literally Thanks for the reality check!

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

They way I see it... if the supreme God of the universe felt that these people deserved to be consumed in fire, they deserved to be consumed in fire.

Why's that?

 

[allfoak]

The story is an allegory, it never happened.
God doesn't "zap" people.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

The story is an allegory, it never happened.
God doesn't "zap" people.

We can still talk about the morality of fictional events.

 

[allfoak]

We can still talk about the morality of fictional events.

That is not what i perceived to be happening.
Sorry

 

[ADigitalArtist]

God is just. You can't apply today's laws to thousands of years ago. Things that were considered normal such as slavery at one time are now considered wrongful and evil.

You can't impose today's standards on thousand year old cultures. God would be in a far better position than any of us to judge what was best for us then and now.

The records may not even be wholly authentic as there are only I think two incidents throughout 8 religions which mention things like this but even then God makes it clear He is punishing people for evil and wickedness.

You started by relating it to modern day, not me. And besides, if a moral entity is eternal and unchanging than their standards shouldn't change across time. Furtger, there is no justice in punishing the blameless (re: civilians, especially the in arguably innocent, like babies, mentally infirm, etc.) Regardless of how literal you take the stories, I find no valuable moral lessons in stories of genocide, of which there are at least four in the bible alone.

 

[Ingledsva]

Sodom and Gomorrah's supposed reason for being destroyed was that homosexuality was rampant. Also the word Sodom means the actual act of homosexual sex... I.E. someone was sodomized.

Actually it doesn't say their sin was homosexuality.

Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

The name of the city wasn't Sodom. It was sed-ome' from a root meaning to scorch; burnt, a volcanic or bituminous district. This tells us why the area is associated with fire and brimstone.

And Sodom-Sodomy is a later addition.

Ezekiel 16 says Jerusalem committed the same, and worse, crimes then Sodom, - SO, - if you believe the "Bible" Sodom story, - why wasn't Jerusalem destroyed like Sodom was supposedly destroyed?

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