What is the moral of this story?

Question

. (Genesis 19:32-36)
Come, let us make our father drink wine, & we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, & lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: & the younger arose, & lay with him; & he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father
What is the role of God in this story?

Answer 1

There are many stories told in the Bible...this one inparticular is reffering to a man who was a godly man....his children did not raise that way....got him drunk and commited incest whis is a sin to God.

Answer 2

Here we have a case where the storytellers had painted themselves into a corner. The whole civilization had been destroyed, nuked as it were, and momma had just been Morton-ized. When it rained, she poured. So how was the line of Lot going to be preserved?

Remember these were verbal tales told around the shepherd campfires for years before anyone got to writing them down. I am not talking just statute of limitation years, I mean older than Mr. Montgomery Burns years.

OK, for those of you that believe every word in the Bible is unerring, then you are stuck with this. For me, Lot was tired and old and then drunk. You think he could perform that? You think he was such a holy man and that he could do that just after a couple slugs of vin rose? I don't.

You know, thinking about it, sure makes his daughters sound bad, though. Maybe that is the whole point, right? Women will get you drunk and have their way with you? That the moral? It is my experience that men usually try it the other way around. Sad story in my humble opinion. Bears reflection.

Thanks for asking. Maybe we should ask some people who make money off telling folks to believe all these stories. Right?

Answer 3

By it's very inclusion in the Bible we are to accept that it is a reward. God made a great people from these drunken inbreds...see America today to judge that reward for yourself.

This is the most repulsive set of biblical passages i can imagine and I know for a fact that this part of the story is held back in Sunday school even though they still think it is such an important lession to tell us the Story of Lot...I gotta say WTF?

I am continually amazed at how many Christians that even know this story completely misinterpret it to mean the daughters were sinners... how close minded

Edited...nowhere in the story does it say the girls believed that they were the last humans on earth..only that their father had no sons. How could you interpret that they thought the world was void of people?????

Answer 4

I would not say there is a moral to this story. What had occurred was that Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities were destroyed by fire and sulphur from God, Lot and his two daughters had fled into a cave . As far as his two daughters knew everywhere were the peoples being destroyed so that they thought that they were the only survivors and there were no men with which to have relations, remember that God had just recently destoyed all by the flood. They were just keeping alive offspring.

Answer 5

He used it to bring two nations into being: the Ammonites and the Moabites. Now, God establishes the times and places that all peoples should live, so that they may reach out and find him(1). But unfortunately, these peoples failed to come to Israel's aid when they arrived to take possession of the land promised to their forefather Abraham, so that they eventually found themselves at enmity not only with Israel, but with God. They were forbidden from entering the assembly of the Lord, and Israel was forbidden from making any treaty of friendship with them(2).

That having been said, a certain Moabitess named Ruth, who had been married to a Jew but was then widowed at a young age, converted to the God of Israel and eventually became the foremother of King David, who was in turn the forefather (at least legally speaking) of Jesus(3). And again, God knew all of this in advance.

So out of that bad situation, He brought the greatest good known to humanity: the Savior of the world(4).

Answer 6

The moral of the story is that if you think that it is up to you to save mankind, you need to do whatever it takes.

What is God's role? Since children were seen as nothing more than chattle, what was done was quite acceptable and, in fact, noble of them to do so.

Personally, I thuink it was a cheap out, especially since Lot had no qualms in offering her virginal daughters to the townspeople who wanted to anally rape his guests (who were angels in disguise)

Answer 7

It isn't. They were actually sinning. It was wrong for them to do this. They effectively seduced their father and committed rape against him. They were not supposed to do this and God never told them to. Lot did not have the respect of his wife or children which is why his wife disobeyed him and God, and why his daughters did what they did.

Answer 8

Parents lifestyles are accepted by children at an early age= Know GOD,show GOD; No GOD,No good!

Answer 9

Perservation of the human race comes before societal stigmatas against incest even if the Bible condemns the lustful side of it...

in other words, what is necessary is necessary.

Answer 10

the 2 girls thought they were the only females left on the earth and that they had to re populate the earth, seeing as there mother was turned into a pillar of stone when she turned her eyes at Sodom. god for gave lot he was drunk.