Before Lot and his guests can lie down, all the men of Sodom surround the house — both young and old, from every part of the city. The universality is the point: all the men, young and old, every quarter of the city. The sin of Sodom is not the sin of a fringe; it is the sin of the entire population. Ezekiel 16:49–50 adds dimensions: pride, gluttony, indifference to the poor, and detestable practices. The mob at Lot's door is the outward expression of a city's comprehensive moral collapse. Romans 1:32 describes the last stage of moral descent: not only doing evil but approving of those who practice it. Sodom's problem is not that some men are wicked; it is that the entire community celebrates and participates in wickedness. The application: the cultural normalization of what God has declared wrong is the condition this verse describes. The question is not whether a few do evil but whether the community approves.

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