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I believe the reason people remember Sodom & Gomorrah for the sexual immorality may be due to:
(1) The account in Genesis 19 where the men of the town wanted to have relations with the two angels that were spending the night at Lot's house.
(2) The word sodomy creates a huge link to Sodom & Gomorrah.
So yes, the traditional interpretation as you ...
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It's actually both. Bear with me; I'll explain.
In the first half of Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel seems to be referring to a human man.
Ezekiel 28:1-10 (ESV)
1The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD:
"Because your heart is proud,
and you have ...
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That's a very good question, and the answer is, we really don't know. We have a single reference in Genesis to widespread practice of sexual immorality, but remember that this is based on one single event that took place after God had already decided to destroy it. What we do know is that not even ten righteous people could be found in the entire region.
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Ezekiel 20:25 is not referring to any laws which God had decreed, but the laws which the people had made on their own. Since the people would not follow God's laws, he left them to their own laws. For instance, the NLT says "I gave them over to worthless decrees and regulations that would not lead to life."
The laws he is referring to here are the ones ...
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Great question!
First let's take in the whole chapter. In chapter 20 God is speaking to Ezekiel of the story of how he chose Israel.
God tells how gave them good rules, to take away the idols of the other nations from their midst and they would continually disobey. Read Exodus and see how many times they fudge up.
"*We should notice this, again, about ...
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