Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
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Jude 1:7
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Examined in Scripture Analysis
Contradictions (3)
Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
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Is it wrong to have sex outside of marriage?
The Torah (Exod 20:14, Deut 5:18) and the New Testament (Acts 15:20, 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13, 6:18, 10:8, 2 Cor 12:21, Gal 5:19-21, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5-6, 1 Thess 4:3, Heb 13:4, Jude 7) repeatedly condemn fornication and adultery. But Hosea 1:2 and 3:1 have YHWH commanding the prophet Hosea to take a "wife of whoredoms" and later to love an adulteress — God explicitly commanding the act his own law forbids.
Critical scholarship: Leans toward reconciliation.
Law & ethics
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Does hell exist?
The Bible offers four mutually incompatible afterlife schemes. The apocalyptic strand (Daniel 12, Matthew, Mark, Luke, 2 Thessalonians, Hebrews, Jude, Revelation) describes eternal conscious torment.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
Theology
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What was Sodom's sin?
The Bible names at least six different sins as the reason Sodom was destroyed: same-sex intercourse (Leviticus 18:22 read into Ezekiel 16:50), inhospitality (Matthew 10, Luke 10, Wisdom 19:13), seeking sex with angels and 'strange flesh' (Genesis 19, Jude 7), pride and neglect of the poor (Isaiah 1, Ezekiel 16:49), adultery and lying (Jeremiah 23:14), and generic ungodliness (2 Peter 2). The 'homosexuality' reading is a late interpretive overlay that the Hebrew Bible's own internal cross-references don't support.
Critical scholarship: Usually considered reconciled.
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