Genesis 19 all of it. What happened in Sodom not natural. What happened in the cave not normal. What's really right?
2006-07-09 05:17:42 · 9 answers · asked by Nita 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Be careful tring to make sense of nonsense. It can make you crazy.
2006-07-09 05:20:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Sodom and Gemorrah wasn't natural, it was two cities where good people wouldn't even go, very unnatural and evil, so God destroyed them. If you want natural, call it a volcano, that's what it sounds like. As far as the cave, what's not normal there, at a time in history where having children was the most important thing? The girls didn't want all human life to end, and thought the entire world had been killed off, not just the two cities. Sick, sure, who in their right mind would want to have sex with their father? But like I said, they thought they were the only people left alive.
2006-07-09 12:32:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In recording the story of Lot, the Bible is warning about the dangers of getting involved with bad companions. Lot was a good man who had served God and lived with his Uncle Abraham (founder of the Jewish race). But instead of continuing to do as God had told him, he moved into Sodom, became a leader in the city, allowed his two oldest daughters to intermarry with them, and became influenced by their society and morals. He got to the point where he was willing to give his daughters over to a gang of rapist. It was only because Abraham had prayed for the deliverance of any righteous in Sodom that Lot even got out alive.
In the end, his daughters were so influenced by the evil of Sodom that they end up sleeping with their father. It is all sick stuff, but it is suppose to be. That's what evil does - destroys people, families, and societies.
2006-07-09 12:29:56 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's right, Nita, the cities were torched because kind, loving, compassionate God could not find ONE righteous person in them. Why, even the babies, children, and fetuses were evil to the core, so God had no choice but to murder them all by burning them to death! Ever see a victim of severe burning? It's a really, REALLY painful way to die, but those kids deserved it for being so evil.
Lot was the only righteous person there. He was SO righteous that he offered his very own daughters to a sex-crazed mob, to abuse as they pleased, rather than let them rape a couple of guys that he'd only just met that morning. Yes, that is God's idea of righteousness. You must love a stranger more than you love your own children.
Then, after God rescued these fine, upstanding people, they took refuge in the mountains and lived in a cave. Lot's daughters got him drunk, had sex with him, and had babies by him; thus, he was the children's father AND grandfather! Ain't that a hoot?! Yay for biblical incest!! ^_^ It proves that God made a wise choice in choosing these people over all the others. Can't you see how righteous they all were??
2006-07-09 12:37:35 · answer #4 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing was normal or right.
They did it to have children and continue to have a family of their own. Nothing wrong in their thinking. Only the means adopted were wrong, as the saying goes, the ends don't justify the means. This action of thiers meant that they didn't have any moral values. Thier faith was non existant. Because the city itself didn't have any moral values. They grew up in such a place. We can't find fault with their thinking. Lot turns to drinking to drown out his sorrows. He has lost everything and finds no reason to enjoy life. All because of wrong decisions made right from the day of separation from Abraham. How terrible.
2006-07-09 12:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by Deborah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Nita,
It's hard for us to understand all that went on back in those days because we do not have a frame of reference for it. Remember this, there were no police, no so-called modent conveniences and lots and lots of land, so consider 9/11-like events happening everyday in a place where there were no buildings to knock down, just rampant chaos and strife.
Sodom and Gomorrah were twin citites like out Minneapolis/St. Paul and riddled with sin and God had enough and wanted them destroyed. Lot begged God to save the city if he could find one righteous men/person; he could not.
The cities were torched.
2006-07-09 12:24:27 · answer #6 · answered by silentknight64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The right thing to do is to pay attention to the mores of the society you live in, rather than those found in ancient fairy tales.
2006-07-09 12:36:48 · answer #7 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
talk to your church, people that have read and studied the Word. They can give you answers to all of your questions.
2006-07-09 12:56:30 · answer #8 · answered by grrlcub 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither is right
2006-07-09 12:20:26 · answer #9 · answered by mom1025 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋