10 Mistakes People Make with Sodom and Gomorrah (plus 1 bonus)

Lightning fast read meant to make you think…

10 Mistakes People Make with Sodom and Gomorrah (plus 1 bonus):

1. Dismiss the story as just a myth, fairy tale or allegory.
2. Overlook that Jesus Christ Himself confirmed the cities’ existence (“It was the same as happened in the days of Lot”). (Luke 17:28-29)
3. Are blind to how the people there similarly used a common phrase/approach of our day to stave/put off detractors, “Stop judging me.” (Genesis 19:9)
4. Miss that prayer was being offered for their rescue. (Genesis 18:23-33)
5. Rationalize the grievous sin that was ongoing and expanding in Sodom and Gomorrah and accept it as okay today. (Genesis 18:20-21)
6. Overlook that the righteous (via faith in Jesus Christ) escaped the wrath of God (Lot and his two daughters). (Genesis 19:12-22; 1 John 1:9)
7. Don’t realize that the condemnation came not so much for homosexuality, etc, but for unbelief (a refusal to believe in God is the root out of which all sin springs forth).
8. Forget that Lot’s wife lost her life, too (though she had fled Sodom and Gomorrah, “worldly passions” still found a place inside of her). (Genesis 19:26; Luke 17:32-33)
9. Think that God “had it out to get them” (He can only give people what they choose for themselves, nothing more, nothing less). (2 Peter 3:9)
10. Don’t realize the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is meant to be an example of what will happen to the ungodly. (2 Peter 2:6)

BONUS Overlook that the sin there was being promoted among and had infected the children. (Genesis 19:4-5)

(The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah picture above in the public domain: click here.)

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