Why were sodom and gomorrah destroyed?

Answer 1

In Genesis chapter 18, God told Abraham:

"Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know." (Genesis 18:20-21)

At this point He does not give the details of their sin but only that because of their wickedness people were crying out to Him. It is not until Ezekiel chapter 16 that we find out what Sodom did that was worthy of death.


Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. (Ezekiel 16:49)

God destroyed Sodom on behalf of the oppressed. Sodom's prosperity had caused them to grow prideful and neglect the poor and needy.


We might have expected God to judge them so harshly had they committed more heinous crimes. But the truth is, all of us are worthy of the same judgment.


Ezekiel 18:20 bluntly declares, "The soul who sins shall die." Romans 3:23 brings it closer to home: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."


And again:


None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. (Romans 3:10-12)
But there is a solution. Though we all fall under condemnation just like Sodom and Gomorrah:


The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it -- the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. (Romans 3:21-25a)

The righteousness that God requires has been made available to us apart from the law even though the law bears witness to it. The way to be righteous before God is to simply believe in Jesus Christ. Just as all have sinned, all may receive righteousness as a gift because God made Jesus to be a propitiation by His blood.


What this means is, "for our sake" God made Jesus "to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Corinthians 5:21) The sacrifice of Jesus Christ satisfies God's righteous anger against our sin. If we believe Him, we will escape the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah just as Lot did.

Answer 2

"...'Because THE CRY of Sodom and Gomorrah IS GREAT, and because THEIR SIN IS VERY GRIEVOUS..." (Gen.18:20)

The "cry" of Sodom and Gomorrah's "grievoussin" [which is 'disobedience to God's Laws' - I John 3:4] still cries out to God from among the unrepentant nations of the world today. And Judgment Day is coming upon all the world; so, "the reason why Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed is":

"...Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with sexual immorality and every other kind of sexual perversion. THOSE CITIES were destroyed by fire and ARE A WARNING OF THE ETERNAL FIRE THAT WILL PUNISH ALL WHO ARE EVIL." (Jude 1:7 NLT New Living Translation)

The nations of the world remain ignorant of the fact that God will open the books of His Revealed Word[...the Bible, which so few have read... and fewer yet believe...] in the Judgment, to SHOW [in court] THE ENTIRE WORLD THE DAMINING TESTIMONY OF THE WORKS OF THEIR SINS [see Rev.20:12]... and Sodom and Gomorrah is but one case history recorded in The Bible that testifies against us.

Answer 3

The people living in Gomorrah and Sodom were very evil and immoral people so god destroyed it with brimstone.

Answer 4

Sodom and Gomorrah , were two cities where the people were evil and ilmoral. So god destroyed the cities brimstone.