Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
In this video, I'm going to be explaining the word Sodomite in the King James Bible. Now let
me just start out by saying this. I believe that the King James Bible is the Word of God
without error. I believe it is a perfect translation from the original Hebrew and Greek
scriptures and it's been around for over 400 years. It's been proven over and over again to be
reliable, trustworthy, accurate, and this should really come as no surprise
since it was translated by 54 top scholars over the course of seven years and these men
were fluent in many languages. They were far higher in their learning than a lot of the
so-called scholars of today. They didn't just know Hebrew. They knew Arabic. They knew Aramaic. I
mean they were expert in all of those Semitic languages. They were expert in many modern
and ancient languages and so the King James Bible is God's gift to us as English-speaking people.
God has preserved his word for us today in the English-speaking world through the King James
Bible. So I just want to make it clear where I stand on that. Now when we think about the word
Sodomite, it obviously is derived from the name of the city of Sodom and Sodom was a place that
was destroyed by God for their abominations and wickedness and we know of course that the
major sin that characterized that story was that they were men who lusted after other men. They
were men who desired to lay with other men and so they were wiped out and from then on this word
Sodomite came to be used about homosexuals because it was a reference to that city. That was the
example of what God did to punish that sin. So homosexuals are known as Sodomites. So obviously
when we look at the word Sodomite, we know it's derived from that city and that Bible story.
So there are a lot of people who believe that this is a mistake in the King James Bible and that
it shouldn't really be a Sodomite there but that it should be a male prostitute. Okay and I'm going
to prove why they're wrong about that in this video. Now let me start out by going to the
scripture in Deuteronomy 23 where this misunderstanding is coming from. Deuteronomy
23 verse 17 says this, there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel nor a Sodomite of the sons
of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the
Lord thy God for any vow for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. So in this
verse we have the whore and the Sodomite and then the next verse we have the whore and the dog. So
dog and Sodomite are being used interchangeably. The Sodomite and the dog are obviously the same
person. I'm going to explain a little bit later why dogs are referring to Sodomites and why that's
so important but because the whore and the Sodomite are put side by side here this has
mistakenly led people to believe that the Sodomite is just the male version of a whore. It's just a
male prostitute and so a lot of the modern Bible versions instead of saying Sodomite here they'll
say male prostitute and everywhere that the King James says Sodomite they'll put a male prostitute.
Now back in the Hebrew the words look very similar okay and this is where the mistake comes from
okay. So the Sodomite is this Hebrew word Kadesh and this is Kadeshah for the whore okay. So
basically one appears to be the female version of the other. So here's the mistake people who don't
know Hebrew they don't speak Hebrew let alone being an expert in Hebrew like the men who
translate the King James Bible they just look at this and just jump to a conclusion that says
oh it's the same thing you know one's male one's female but it's the same thing and then they go
off and think that it's male prostitute instead of Sodomite okay. I'm going to prove that wrong
but let me just show you an illustration from Spanish okay to show that their logic is flawed.
Now the words I'm going to show you in Spanish I'm not going to say them out loud because
most people probably would consider these cuss words in Spanish you know you go to different
parts of the world and different things are cuss words in different parts of the world or not
and also in the Spanish world different things mean different things in different parts of the
world but I'm going to go by the understanding that I have of these two words in Spanish
based on their usage in many countries in South America and also many people that I've spoken to
from Mexico and South America who confirmed what these words mean for me and I'm not going to say
them out loud because I don't want to offend anyone but I wrote them down here on this paper
and I put a little star to censor it here but these two words in Spanish again one is the same
as the other except just the o and the a so one's masculine one's feminine so again people would
look at this and say oh you know it's the same word one's masculine one's feminine but when we
look at this example in Spanish we find that actually this word right here is referring to
a prostitute okay the feminine version this is a whore but this word right here is referring to
a homo it's referring to a sodomite okay so what we have here is actually the exact equivalent with
what we have in Hebrew okay two words that are the same other than being a masculine and a
feminine version but they don't mean the same thing okay now if you were growing up in the
Spanish-speaking world where these words are used in this way then basically you would know that
this is a prostitute now this is not a sodomite this is not a female sodomite or lesbian or
anything like that no this is just a prostitute okay and then this up here is a homo now this
guy's not necessarily selling anything now of course many sodomites many homos do sell their
bodies there's no question about that okay but this right here is just a homo it's not necessarily
one who's selling anything and this right here is a whore and that doesn't make her a lesbian
or a reprobate or a sodomite okay so again somebody who didn't know Spanish could just
jump to conclusions about what these words mean just like somebody who doesn't know Hebrew is
going to jump to conclusions by seeing the similarity of these words but that doesn't
make it so so the Kadesh is a sodomite and Kadeshah is a whore okay let me prove this
to you further from the bible okay um in the verse itself sodomite is interchanged with dog
well think about what a dog is okay a dog is a dirty animal the bible talks about dogs will
eat their own vomit we know that dogs will eat excrement and do other disgusting things okay
well think about this does a dog sell anything no but a dog will pretty much hump anything
and we've all seen dogs that are in heat or dogs that get around other dogs that are in heat
where they'll hump somebody's leg they'll they'll hump anything they'll hump a tree they'll hump you
know a male a female dog whatever okay so this is why God is using dog to describe a sodomite
now if a sodomite were just only one who sells his body then it wouldn't make any sense to compare
him to a dog because there's no comparison whereas if a sodomite is referring to a homo
well then comparisons abound okay but not only that if we go to the next time the word sodomite
is used first kings 14 24 the bible says there were also sodomites in the land and they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which the lord cast out before the children of
israel now think about this what were the abominations that caused the lord
to cast out the caninites out of the land well the bible tells us in leviticus chapter 18
in leviticus 20 god goes through those sins and he explains that it was men lying with mankind
it was man lying with a beast and he lists all these perversions but he doesn't mention anything
about them selling their bodies or you know because of prostitution the land is spewing
them out or they're being kicked out of land no god cast them out of the land because of the
abomination of the perversions that they committed so according to first kings 14 24 the sodomites
are those who do according to the abominations of the caninites those who did according to the
abominations of sodom okay so the bible is quite correct here the king james version is quite
correct to put sodomite here because that's what these perverts are called okay it's not
a prostitute it's a pervert okay let me read the next scripture here first kings 15 12 and he took
away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made first kings
2246 and the remnant of the sodomites which remained in the days of his father asa he took
out of the land second kings 23 7 and he break down the houses of the sodomites that were by the
house of the lord where the women wove hangings for the grove so when we see the new modern bible
versions taking out the word sodomite and instead going with the word male prostitute or cult
prostitute or shrine prostitute what that's telling us is that basically they don't really
know the hebrew language correctly they don't really know the bible well enough to realize
that it's not a prostitute it's a sodomite it's a homo okay and what they're doing is basically
just looking at this with their rudimentary hebrew knowledge and just saying oh those really look
similar and just going with that and just running with that like if a spanish speaker just
automatically assume when he's in argentina or whatever that well this must be a male prostitute
or this must be a lesbian or you know and and mixing up these two words or mixing up these two
words look i'm gonna go with what the king james translators have translated as sodomite it makes
more sense it fits the context of committing the abominations that cause them to be cast out
of the land in canin that caused sodom to be destroyed and also being like unto it dog that
fits so we don't want to go with this false teaching that says hey actually it's just a
prostitute and look why are these modern scholars teaching this because they want to defend homos
and try to make it out that well it's not the fact that it's a man with a man it's the fact
that they're selling it that's the problem okay that's what's behind this new so-called scholarship
to try to get the word sodomite out of the bible and then also we don't want to make the opposite
mistake and think that a whore is somehow referring to a reprobate or a lesbian or something
like that as the female version of the sodomite that's ridiculous because we know that jesus
christ of course reached many whores with the gospel in his days so they clearly weren't
reprobates the publicans and the harlots believed in christ in many cases and many
prostitutes got saved and of course there are prostitutes who are lesbians that are reprobates
but not all of them are and the bible clearly shows us examples where they're not and in fact
you know tamar who uh was the one who lay with her father-in-law okay um in that story in genesis
chapter number uh 38 i believe it is you know this word is used to describe when tamar's by the side
of the road pretending to be a prostitute paying to be a whore okay that has nothing to do with her
being a reprobate or lesbian you know that's a false teaching and so anyway i just wanted to
make sure that you understood that the king james bible is correct when it uses the word sodomite
what the word sodomite means why it's there and don't let these kind of arguments try to
spin your mind and look this is just a cautionary tale for people going back to greek and hebrew in
general when they don't know the language okay because you can come up with wrong conclusions
you know uh you look at words and sometimes they they look like a word you know and you can think
oh i know what this means it's called a false friend for example in german the word gift
you know oh i know what that means no no the word gift in german actually means poison
it's not a present that you get okay or for example there's the german word actuel and and
when you hear the word actuel in german if you don't know german that well you might think it
means actual but actually actuel means current so if i said mine actuel de frau i'd be saying
my current wife that that would make it sound like i had other wives you know before or after
okay uh whereas you know it doesn't mean yeah this is actually my wife you know so you could
you could say the wrong thing there if you didn't know what that word meant or how about the spanish
word effectivo you might see the word effectivo and just think oh that means effective no if
effectivo means cash okay how about the spanish word embarazada which means pregnant you might
look at that and think oh it just means embarrassed but actually embarazada means pregnant okay and we
could go on and on all the different examples and and you know bible examples like for example when
the bible says that they go after strange flesh you know in greek the the word strange there
is the word etero so so you could say oh they went after hetero flesh so the men in sauda were
actually straight so you could get all kinds of stupid doctrines by going back to the greek and
hebrew when you don't know the language or how about when the bible says that god's going to make
of abraham a great nation you know what the word for nation is that hebrew goi so he's going to
make abraham into a great goi define irony what am i trying to say here i'm trying to say that
if you don't know greek and if you don't know hebrew then don't try to form conclusions based on
what you see in these languages because you don't know the language and don't listen to these so
called scholars who barely know the language or took a few semesters of the language and are
trying to pull the wool over your eyes and trick you into rejecting the king james version look
go with what the king james bible says you speak english you're fluent in english i'm fluent in
english let's talk about what the king james bible says and don't let people use a foreign language
to try to contradict what the king james is saying okay because the king james bible was
translated by 54 scholars that are way smarter than these bozos who try to go back to the greek
and hebrew to change what the bible is saying okay and the king james bible has been around for over
400 years it's been tested tried we've seen the fruit of it okay these bozo johnny come lately
scholars who want to change what the bible means all the time and take out hell and take out
sodomite take out damnation and take out all these different things you know i wouldn't trust them at
all okay because their scholarship leaves something to be desired and many times they
have a wicked agenda even to defend homos or whoever else anyway i hope this video was helpful
god bless you have a great day