--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/26/06 6:48:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Christ. What Christ is saying is that the people of a town that > refuses his message > > are in far worse condition because the message was offered and > rejected > > where as it was never offered to the Sodomites who never rejected > it. > > Of course, but why did Jesus choose Sodom for the > comparison? He didn't just pick it out of a hat; > > Exactly! Are there any other towns other than Sodom and Gomorra > that were totally destroyed by God with fire and brimstone > mentioned in the Bible? It was the ideal example that Jesus was > trying to impress on his disciples. God's judgemnet.
That was certainly a factor: This is how God punishes people who are so arrogant they are deaf to God's Word. But the Hebrew Scriptures are full of tales of such punishments of one unpleasant, violent sort or another. Jesus chose the destruction of Sodom because it worked in three respects: a punishment meted out to a *town*, the comparative severity of the punishment, *and* the specific sin for which it was punished. If you want to insist that Sodom was punished for the the sin of homosexuality, the force of the analogy is greatly weakened because the sins wouldn't be similar. Jesus was nothing if not precise in his analogies and metaphors. That's why they're so powerful. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
