definitely includes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. History and archaeology confirm these same conditions. Josephus, who wrote around A.D. 99-100, said that the Sodomites “hated strangers and abused themselves with sodomitical practices.”
Boswell the writer says that Lot was following local customs in offering his daughters to appease the angry mob. “No doubt the surrender of his daughters was simply the most tempting bribe Lot could offer on the spur of the moment to appease the hostile crowd . . This action, almost unthinkable in modern Western society, was consonant with the very low status of female children at the time . . .” But what Lot did was not right. Just because Lot offered his daughters to them in accordance with local customs does not mean that his action was morally acceptable in God’s sight. It is much more probable that Lot’s offer was motivated by the thought that however wrong rape is, homosexual rape was even worse. Lot’s offer was simply what he thought to be the lesser of two evils.
V. HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE MOSAIC LAW
VI. THE INJUNCTIONS IN THE LAW
God’s command concerning homosexuality is clear: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination” (Lev 18:22). This is expanded in Leviticus 20:13. “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.”[i] These passages are set in the context of God’s judgment on sexual crimes and are an expansion of the seventh commandment.
Moses was not trying to establish an exhaustive code on the subject of sexuality; rather he was dealing with certain gross offenses of the seventh commandment that were common in the nations