What's going on in Genesis 19:5-8?

Question

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This is the guy God saw fit to save?

Also, later, he gets hammered and has sex with his daughters. What's up with that?

Answer 1

Hospitality was important in that culture. Lot had a responsibiility to protect the angels. He had no way of knowing that they could easily protect themselves. Remember, their culture is not our culture. Their values were not ours. Lot's daughters were his property. Better sacrifice property than violate hospitality.

As to getting sloshed, maybe he shouln't have? The girls thought they were all that was left of the human race. They were just being 'responsible'.

Answer 2

Peace!
Lot's answer (v. 8) seems incredible to us; but, it coincides with the ideas of those distant days when women were not considered as human persons. It seemed normal to sacrifice a daughter in order to save a friend. (See something similar in Judges 19).

There are many things in the Bible which are not meant as teaching. They are there for historical, cultural, geographical or poetic reasons. The important thing is God's revelation to you.
Here God seems to be telling me that homosexuality is evil. That we should protect our guests from harm, etc.

The point I am driving at is this: The Bible should be read in the same level it was written - spiritual. If we read the Bible this way, God will speak to us. On the other hand, if we read it critically or literally we can justify almost anything - slavery, incest, human sacrifice, polygamy, etc. In fact, the Bible has been used by many evil people including Satan to justify those sins.

God bless

Answer 3

This is in Sodom, and the men are wanting Lot to send the men out so they can have sex with them. It was a place of sin, that is why the Angels (the men in the house with Lot) came to get Lot & his family out before it was destroid.

Later Lots daughters got him drunk and had sex with him because they thought they were the only humans left on the planet. They didn't want the human race to perish so they got him drunk and got pregnant by there father. They were from Sodom after all.....
Did you know all the decendants from those two kids turned out to be evil and were never Gods people ?
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God Bless & keep the Faith !
God Bless & keep the Faith !

Answer 4

Gen. 19:8—Was it not wrong for Lot to offer his daughters to the Sodomites? According to the Oriental code, it was a host’s responsibility to protect the guests in his home, defending them even to the point of death if necessary. Lot was prepared to do that. He bravely went out to the mob, closed the door behind him, and faced them alone. By the time he offered his daughters, Lot likely realized that his guests were messengers from God, and he may have reasoned that God could protect his daughters as He had protected his aunt Sarah in Egypt. (Genesis 12:17-20) Indeed, as the matter turned out, Lot and his daughters were kept safe.
Gen.19:30-38—Did Jehovah condone Lot’s getting drunk and fathering sons by his two daughters? Jehovah condones neither incest nor drunkenness. (Leviticus 18:6, 7, 29; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10) Lot actually deplored the “lawless deeds” of Sodom’s inhabitants. (2 Peter 2:6-8) The very fact that Lot’s daughters got him intoxicated suggests that they realized that he would not consent to having sexual relations with them while he was sober. But as aliens in the land, his daughters felt that this was the only way to prevent the extinction of Lot’s family. The account is in the Bible to reveal the relationship of the Moabites (through Moab) and the Ammonites (through Benammi) to Abraham’s descendants, the Israelites.

Answer 5

5 The Hebrew verb for KNOW is ordinarily used of normal sexual relations between male and female ( 4:1 ). Here it is used to describe the perversion of homosexual sex between men. See Rom 1:18-32, especially vv 26.27. The term sodomite comes from this passage because homosexuality was so characteristic to Sodom ( Jude 7 )

6-8 Lot's plight was severe; he had invited quests into his home for protection ( ancient hospitality obliged a host to protect his guests in every situation ) and was now in danger for seeing them abused by an unruly mob. Lot's desperation led him to risk the lives of his own two daughters to protect the lives of strangers from the mob.

Lot was not sinless but He was the only person who was worth to save + his family. God did not approve of His sins by any means, but the Bible records things that took place.

Answer 6

Lot was responsible for those sojourners (who were angels sent from God) he had given refuge to them, bringing them under his roof. In offering them refuge he assumed responsibility for their welfare. It was a life and death situation. In desperation Lot put everything which might protect these men from God in between them and the astounding wickedness confronting them. That was an act of a desperate man in desperate circumstances. He did according to his chief responsibility according to the custom of the day.

Later he did get drunk but it was not his decision to have relations with his daughters. Goes to show you what drunkeness can bring.

Yes God saved Lot. A righteous man who was grieved continually by the wickedness of the city.

2 Peter 2: 6-9

Answer 7

The towns men came to Lots house and wanted Lot to send out the two men so they could have sex with them,These men were Angels sent from God to save Lot.Lot pleaded with the crowd and said that he would let them have his two daughters but leave these men alone.They tried to enterLots house but the Angels pulled Lot inside the house, then they struck the crowd out side blind. They ,the Angels, told Lot if he had anyone else in the city to get them and leave because they were going to destroy the city because of their wickedness.

Answer 8

Lot is identified by Jehovah as being righteous. It was his daughters who intoxicated their father to the point that he lost self control.
You also must keep in mind, that women in those days, sometimes kept themselves covered so they could deceive others into a wrongful course.

Answer 9

God understands that we are human and we screw up. If you read it, the girls got him hammered because they wanted to continue on the family line so that it wasn't exactly his fault by any means. He did not "rape" anyone. They seduced him and God knows that we are human and forgives us.

Answer 10

Actually, Lot is not in the line of Jesus. His story ends after the story of him and his daughters.