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Is Sex Really the Root of All Evil?

shart attack said:
Yeah, well, sorry, but the story to which you're referring wasn't even in the 18th chapter of Genesis, but the 19th.

The 18th Chapter of Genesis merely sets the tone for what is to come, what is about to happen to Sodom, as Lot's brother Abraham is before God, pleading for Him to spare the city. And of course, anyone who's truly familiar with the story knows that God tells Abraham that if Abraham can find a mere 10 good people in the city who — despite the city's blessed avarice, its riches which are fortified from the world outside its walls, where the meek and the poor in both fiscality and spirit dwell — aren't haughty and mocking of God, that the Lord will spare Sodom from His wrath, and judgment.

Sodom was a brutally sick, jadedly wicked and most importantly, Godless place which (like America today) reaped all of God's blessings of health and wealth, but didn't in turn give God His proper thanks and glorification.

Think of Sodom not so much as a sexually sinful place, but more as a city filled with jaded, spoiled, entitled brats who didn't appreciate the true source of their wealth.

This is what the New Testament author Paul refers to in II Timothy 3:5 as "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof".

God doesn't like it when people aren't thankful to Him for the blessings He has given them.

The 19th Chapter of Genesis is the story of the actual destruction of Sodom.

And some of us don't need to Google that.

We know it because we actually read the Bible on a regular basis.
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So the website got the chapter wrong and I missed that fact. The point still remains that according to the JST, Lot did not offer his daughters to the men of Sodom. Congrats on having all the chapters memorized.
 
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laska said:
So the website got the chapter wrong and I missed that fact. The point still remains that according to the JST, Lot did not offer his daughters to the men of Sodom. Congrats on having all the chapters memorized.
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according to who again very clearly in genesis 19:8 he did

“Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! 8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

as for the OP. No sex is not the root of all evil. Satan is and always will be the root of all evil. he has marred the act of sex into something perverted instead of what it's intended use was.
 
ludin said:
according to who again very clearly in genesis 19:8 he did

“Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! 8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

as for the OP. No sex is not the root of all evil. Satan is and always will be the root of all evil. he has marred the act of sex into something perverted instead of what it's intended use was.
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I know that is what the Bible states but Joseph Smith, who I believe was a true prophet, did a re-translation of parts of the Bible because of the many translation errors in the text. In his re-translation the Lot's daughters verses was translated not what is in the current Bible: 8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”


But was rendered like this:

“Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, plead with my brethren that I may not bring them out unto you; and ye shall not do unto them as seemeth good in your eyes; For God will not justify his servant in this thing.”


The following link gives some more examples from the Joseph Smith Translation and how it clarifies and resolves many Biblical inconsistencies and problems due to translation errors.
A Prophet Looks at Exodus through Deuteronomy: Insights from the Joseph Smith Translation - Ensign Feb. 1986 - ensign
 
Numbers 8 & 9 of the 13 Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:

8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

Articles of Faith 1:1-13*
 
Alyssa said:
I did. And saw nothing compelling. Neither did you put it in a forum where I would be allowed to respond freely. So thanks, but until you post evidence that the Bible is not faith-based, and until you post a thread in the philosophy forum where I would be allowed to rip your faith into jagged, unrecognizable pieces, there isn't much for us to discuss.
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I've re-created the following thread in the Philosophy Forum so we can argue the existence and/or non-existence of God, etc.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/philo...181918-evidence-bible-god.html#post1062712975

See you there. Eat your Wheaties first. :)
 
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