Over the centuries, the language as a means of communication has undergone many changes. Many of the words disappeared from spoken slang or were replaced by others. Some, such as "sodomy," have become a book concept that can only be found in church literature.
What does sodomy mean?
This is a historical term, originally used to refer to various forms of sexual deviant behavior . This concept was applied to any manifestations of sexuality, not for the purpose of conceiving a child. In sources of a legal nature, so-called and called any unnatural intimate relationships. Those who are interested in what it means sodomite, you can answer that this man is extremely sexually immoral, vicious and cruel. This name is given to him in Christian theology.
The sin of sodomy
The bible mentions the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, whose inhabitants were wicked people who lived in debauchery. For this God was angry with them and decided to exterminate them. About this one righteous Lot - the inhabitant of those places was informed by his uncle Abraham. On the night in the house of Lot were sent two pilgrims, who are angels. The inhabitants of the city began to demand meeting with the travelers to get in touch with them. Lot's warnings that this would lead to the wrath of God were ignored, and as a result, the sin of the inhabitants of Sodom led to the fact that only ashes remained from the cities, and Lot and his family managed to escape.
Love for sodomy
Between the 6th and 11th century, European residents used the term "sodomy" to refer to any prohibited sexual intercourse, including the extramarital and premarital relationship between a man and a woman. Inquisitors of the concept of debauchery and sodomy used already in relation to the sodomized people, as in Russia in the pre-Petrine era. Then, cases of sexual contacts between members of the stronger sex among the nobility increased. Rich merchants even hired themselves boys for sexual gratification.
- Currently, sodomites are those who prefer anal sex and mating with animals.
- In some sources this concept is identified with bestiality.
- Every oral satisfaction with both its own and the opposite sex falls under this definition.
- More often anal sodomy as a term is used in relation to homosexuals.
Fighting sodomites
Over the centuries, the government has been fighting the depraved immoral people. Sin of Sodom at one time experienced the inhabitants of Russia in the 15th century, when sodomites practically seized power in the state, taking the post of metropolitan and getting ready to the king. The great ascetic Joseph of Volotsk rose to the defense and his sodomites were overthrown with his prayers. With the spread of this threat of sexual perverts, criminal laws have been prosecuted and laws against the detractors, that is pedophiles, continue to operate today. But there are also necrophils, gerontophiles, zoophiles, etc.
Holy Fathers of Sodomy
The patristic tradition in this respect clearly and clearly makes it clear that any manifestations of same-sex relationships and all kinds of perversions are not approved by the church. The prelates John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, the blessed Augustine and others speak of the sinfulness of such ties and condemn them. However, in the New Testament, such apostates are not even called upon to repent: "The unrighteous one still does untruth; the unclean still be filthy; Let the righteous man do righteousness yet, and let the saint be illuminated again. " (Rev. 22:11).
Sodomy in the ROC is condemned, but the foundations of the social concept are considered only as homosexuality and transsexualism in this capacity. Sodomites of gays are called to repentance, and transsexuals who decide to change their sex are accused of "rebellion against the creator" and are also called to repent, to atone for sin by prayer and fasting, by reading the Holy Scripture. Only Christian communication with a confessor and believing people will help to take the right path.