Jesus tells us in Matthew 10:14-15 that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality.

“Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement than for that city.”

Jude, verse 7, is one of the verses used in an attempt to prove that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was homosexuality.

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering vengeance of eternal fire.”

Note: There are three Greek words that are used for fornication in the New Testament.

Porneia appears 26 times in the New Testament and is used of “illicit sexual intercourse”.

Porneuo appears 7 times in the New Testament and means to indulge unlawful lust (of either sex) or to practice idolatry.

Ekporneuo appears once in the New Testament and that one appearance is in Jude, verse 7. The word “implies excessive indulgence”.

We already know by Ezekiel 16:49-50 that the inhabitants of Sodom had abundant food and careless ease. By allowing scripture to interpret scripture, we know that the fornication referred to by Jude was not of a sexual nature.

Now, what does Jude mean by strange flesh?

The Greek word for strange is heteros which means other or different. It also means another, one not of the same nature, form, class, kind, different.

The Greek word for flesh is sarx.

Therefore the term “strange flesh” in the Greek is heteros sarx which means “different flesh.” The word heterosexual is derived from the Greek word heteros and the late Latin word sexualis.

The strange flesh being referred to in Jude 7 is “angel flesh”. The two men whom the crowd wanted to rape were angels. Human beings are of the same flesh.

By studying the verses related to the account of Sodom and Gomorrah, it becomes clear that the destruction of these two cities had nothing to do with sexual orientation. The Bible tells us that the people of Sodom were greedy, arrogant, selfish, gluttons, inhospitable, rapists, violent and idolaters. To say that the sin of Sodom was homosexuality is a stretch and scripture does not back up that conclusion.

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