"Lot and his two daughters...settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father." That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father."
2007-01-27 12:57:15 · 32 answers · asked by James-hova RTR: Suspended Champ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says it's OK, so why don't we want to get busy with our parents or our kids?
2007-01-27 12:57:48 · update #1
pretty sick huh?Lev 20-23 makes me wanna barf
2007-01-27 12:59:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Peace!
There are many things in the Bible which are not meant as teaching. They are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons.
We should remember that these are legendary traditions of the Israelites through which they attempted to explain the origins of different peoples and their connection with them. Since an age-old hatred separated the Israelites from the Ammonites and the Moabites, the present explanation was not meant to praise them.
The Bible can be used to justify almost anything if we interpret it literally. Even the devil uses the Bible to deceive people. (Read the temptation of Jesus in the desert.) The important thing is the revelation. The Bible should be read on the same level it was written - spiritual. If you read the Bible this way, God will speak to you.
God bless
2007-01-27 13:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did the Bible really say it's ok? Have you read the whole story? Did God say anything in that story that approves of what they had done? Are you really reading and understanding at the same time? Yes it's true that they have committed incest, but that was during the time when God has not yet established his covenant with His people. So the daughters had no idea that what they did was wrong. Their motive was not really sexual in nature, but to preserve the family's lineage. And remember that Sodom and Gomorrah (where Lot's family lived) was condemned by God because of their homosexual and incestuous acts. Please do take your time while reading your Bible. If you want, you can ask someone with knowledge in your church or ministry to have a Bible study with you so that you can be enlightened.
2007-01-27 13:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by Max T 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Bible does not condone the act carried out by Lot's daughters. If you read further in the Old Testament, you will find that the descendants of this coupling became some of Israel's worst enemies (Moabites and Ammonites).
Because a verse is included in the Bible does not prove that God was pleased with the event.
2007-01-27 13:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People that dismiss the authenticity of the Bible by such means are very ill-informed. They have let their ears out to stories and myth. They also view themselves as of superior intellect - above the need to have a fulfilling spiritual life. They are very basic and very material in their attitude. The Bible is God's Word. There is no disputing that. The fundamental issue is that faith is required and faith is NOT blind - as they maintain. There is a good and sound answer for EVERY "discrepancy" they raise - but their egotistical fleshly and selfish disposition, make them blind to unbiased reasoning. Pity them. That's all you can do.
2016-05-24 07:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does the Bible tacitly endorse this, simply by recording it? The Bible describes a multitude of things God abhors, often in the context of "don't do this." Just because you read that a thing happened, doesn't mean God is condoning it. The Bible records the first human sin, also the first murder, and here, possibly the first incest. None of them are being held up as positive examples.
This is especially evident from the fact that two books later, in Leviticus, all sorts of incestual relationships are prohibited and called wickedness.
Honestly, this was a really stupid question.
2007-01-27 13:07:06 · answer #6 · answered by Matt c 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
*Okay, I am no fan of christians, but I have studied the bible and it does not say it is okay.
This is just recording what happenned or was suppossed to have happenned. The daughters got Lot drunk and did this without his consent. It was actually rape, but they thought they wer the last people on earth and wanted chil;dren. so how does that say it is okay? They may not have thougth they wer the last on earth, but they did think they was last in the region or else they would have known there were other men available. They just wantede to preserve their family line.*
2007-01-27 13:05:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here's a deal: We'll stop scanning the bible for stuff as soon as Christians stop scanning the Bible to excuse intellectual thought and to justify their their political/moral beliefs (eg anti-homosexaulity agendas, creationism)
The bible is not a history, as most of these stories cannot be verified elsewhere.
The mere fact that this is in the Bible is indeed a tacit endorsement of the behavior. He doesn't condemn it.
They thought they were the last people on Earth? Please? God can send angles to Lot's house, destroy the cities of Sodom and Gammorah, turn Lot's wife into a salt pillar, but he can't give Lot and his daughters the heads up that there is no need to procreate through incest and that it is wrong.
I mean if the Bible is the Word of God, if God inspired or told someone to write this, he could have easily included one sentence that his behavior is bad.
He did take the time to tell us that touching a woman on here period was wrong and that we should be banished as punishment.
2007-01-27 13:15:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
It does NOT endorse it. Read Leviticus and Deuteronomy, it explicitly tells us incest is sin, and worthy of death. It is written to teach lessons. You cannot take small scriptures, when the Bible as a whole is profitable to learn from, precept upon precept , line upon line, so that the satanic forces cannot understand it.
Prophecy is sure, and has always happened, keep reading !! Pray for understanding !
2007-01-27 13:04:15 · answer #9 · answered by Kathy 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
These are probably the same girls that Lot was going to throw out to the crowd to protect the angels from the crowd who wanted to have sex with them..........yup, Lot was not very smart, as if angels cannot care for themselves.
This is against God's Law, God does not think this is ok.
The girls were probably warped in the first place, look at the place they grew up in, people going around in crowds knocking on peoples doors in the middle of the night looking for people to come out and sleep with them all..........crazy
2007-01-27 13:35:22 · answer #10 · answered by màrrach 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the story of lot and his daughters is pretty explicit i,ll admit but, how does someone writing down the story (ENDORSE) incest?,would you accuse news reporters of endorsing the crimes they reported?In the bible ,sin full behavior is often reported,as object lessons,I don't want to discourage you though, if looking for the bad in the bible keeps you looking I'm all for it.at least you re reading it ,maybe someday you ll graduate to reading with understanding
2007-01-27 13:45:08 · answer #11 · answered by matowakan58 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋