DOES JUDE 7 TEACH THAT DESTRUCTION OF SODOM & GOMORRAH WAS THE ACTUAL PUNISHMENT OF ETERNAL FIRE?
Updated – 10/23/09 We read in Jude 7: Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. This verse appears to clearly teach that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah about 4,000 years ago was the actual suffering of the punishment of eternal fire. However, a poor translation of a word in Jude 7 results in the conclusion that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah about 4,000 years was the suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. As we will see an accurate translation is that this destruction indicates that they are subject to the vengeance of eternal fire. The Greek word translated suffering in this verse appears to teach that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah about 4,000 years was the actual suffering of the vengeance of eternal fire. However, suffering is a misleading translation of the Greek word used in this verse; upec
