How come its ok for Lot to offer up his daughter to be raped in genesis 19:8?

Question

I don't think this passage is about homosexuality, but about protecting strangers by sacrificing your own interests? be interested to see people's answers.

Answer 1

God never asked Lot to offer up his daughters to the mob, nor did God condone such an offer. Point was Lot knew those strange visitors were righteous, and Lot wanted to protect them from the mob that wanted to rape those strange men. Not knowing they were angels sent to destroy that city because of the evil and sin.

Answer 2

Jews of the OT did not believe homosexuality to be an even worse sin than rape. (Where does she come up with these nutty ideas?) The OT like the New depicted women as either saintly or whores, with precious little distinction between the two. Ancient Jews believed that placing a Jewish man's "seed" anywhere except inside a woman was a terrible thing. You've heard that song "Every Sperm is Sacred", haven't you?

Read this - please [emphasis mine]:
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Traditional Judaism has seen - and continues to see - homosexuality as an abomination (Refer to Leviticus, chapter 18. Interestingly, neither the Torah nor the rabbinic tradition has much to say concerning lesbian relationships. IT IS THE MALE'S "SPILLING OF SEED" ANYWHERE OTHER THAN THE USUAL "PLACE" THAT IS SEEN AS A SIN. Many in the traditional community today will say that they accept the homosexual person as a Jew, but they cannot condone what they understand to be sinful behavior nor can they that say that homosexuality is on the same level as heterosexuality.

On the other hand, there are those, not all, who believe that the traditional laws against homosexuality originated in a more ritual context, since, FOR THE MOST PART, THE WORD "ABOMINATION" WAS APPLIED MORE IN THE RITUAL SPHERE OF LIFE THAN THE ETHICAL.

The Torah seems to see homosexual relations in a cultic context rather than something more parallel to the interpersonal context of heterosexual relationships.

Although the sin of Sodom and Gemmorah is apparently homosexuality, later Jewish tradition, including the Biblical prophets, makes no reference to homosexuality and see the sins of Sodom and Gemmorah as cruelty and lack of hospitality to the "stranger" - xenophobia, as it were.

Reform Judaism, for the most part, seems to view the traditional prohibitions against homosexuality as mores from a bygone age, mores now replaced with clearer understandings of the reality of gender orientation..."
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Answer 3

Be careful. Gen 19:8 doesn't tell us that homosexuality is okay. On the contrary, it very much tells us that it is NOT okay.

As bad as it is to see your daughter violated by a lusful mob, to the ancient Jews, a sexual violation of a homosexual nature was even worse. That's how bad they considered homosexuality to be.

In Gen 19:8, the violation of Lot's daughter was seen as the "lesser of two evils" -- but as the Bible tells us, the lustful mob of men were not interested in Lot's daughter. They were interested in the men in the house.

The city was destroyed by God shortly after.

Answer 4

Like all Gods words it can be used as an example in different ways.

One way, is certainly homosexuality. it shows that Lot was more willing to sacrifice his "virgin daughter" knowin "what that would do" to his daughter and her chances of a husband, which in those days was very important to him and his daughter. Lot knew that homosexuality was such an "abomination" to God, that he preferred to sacrifice his and his daughters dignity, pride, and respect.

Also, how sometimes people must do "things" that go against the "norm" to try and diffuse situations. Just imagine, the scene and what was going on. it was a mob of drunken, out-of-control, and angry people. I can imagine Lot being a lil' scared, stressed, and thinking quickly and the best he could, under the circumstances.

Answer 5

That's exactly it. Even today in parts of the world this rule still applies and has to do with the rule of thumb "if my family member were out in the world alone, how would I want them treated by strangers who welcomed them . . . " This was taken so seriously by Lot that he offered his own virgin daughters that the citizens of the city knew (and therefore didn't want). They wanted, if you'll forgive the vernacular "strange." This rule (see the Golden Rule) was so important that God sent the angels to test it, and even kept lowering the number of men to be found, in order to prove to Lot of the overall evil of the cities in the valley.

Its not about homosexuality and the newer translations of the scriptures have proven that. However its still isn't a pretty picture at all of evil, lust and plain old uncaring.

When escaping to the mountains and told not to look back, Lots wife was not turned into a Pillar of Salt just for turning around, but because of the desire in her Heart, in the fact that she already missed her life back in evil city and wanted to return.

Answer 6

Lot lived in Sod'om ( Sod'om & Gomor'rah) an Angel had came down from Heaven to tell them to flee the city "lest they be consumed by the punishment of the city (Gen.19:15). The men of Sod'om had come to Lots' house wanting to know who was there and to knpw them 'carnally' (Gen. 19:5) to protect the Angels from the men of the town he offered his daughteres, knowing they would not accept. It was not right, but it was also a test from God, if he would hand over the Angels to the townsmen.

Answer 7

** Lot offer his dauthers for marriage not for illegal sex. **

Where does the Bible say that? Show me, chapter and verse, where Lot offered them for marriage. He simply told the crowds that they could have the women to do as they pleased with--there was no mention of marriage. Did your pastor tell you that to try and divert your attention from the fact that GOD called Lot a righteous man? According to God, Lot was the only righteous person in the city, yet he offered his own daughters to a crowd of sexually depraved men just so he could save the lives of two people whom he'd never even met before. If that's God's idea of righteousness, then what does he label as evil??

Christians continuously say that the Bible stories have valuable lessons to teach, yet the only lesson I see in stories like this one is that God is a depraved monster who cares nothing for anyone, picking people at random on whom to bestow his blessings, as if they were game pieces on a chess board. Lot's entire family was screwed-up, since later on, those same daughters get him drunk and have sex with him! So we can read suggested gang-rape of men by men, almost a gang-rape of women by men, and incest involving a man and his two daughters--all in the same story. Nobody ever hides the Bible for fear their children will read garbage like this, yet if they knew that their children were reading such ideas from a library book, they'd be shrieking to have it removed from the shelves!

Answer 8

The reason Lot offered his daughers, was because it is worse for a man to lay down with another man and this is blasphemous in the sight of God. Man was made for the woman and vice versa. Lot knew this to be True!

Lot knowing the hearts of the men who were after the angels knew what they wanted. So instead of giving them his guests who were the messengers of God, he offered his daughters in their place to protect them.

As a test of Lots faith God through his messengers delivered Lot and his family.

Lot wasn't a perfect man and neither are we, but in the book of Hebrews ch.11 through the grace of God his a champion of faith.

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Answer 9

Well you see, it wasn't exactly right for him to do that. The reason it is in the Bible is to show that Lot was not a righteous man, and was far more concerned with his own safety and his own possesions than the lives of his family members.

Answer 10

first of all, no one ever said it was okay for him to do that. Lot was a little warped anyway. God protected him from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah because Lot showed a bit of love towards God, and he was the only person who had any kind of relationship with God at all in those towns.