well i've seen how theese kinds of questions can turn on here, but i'll ask anyway.... Lot is spared because he is considered a good man for sheltering the angels, but how can Lot be portrayed as just when he offers up his two daughters to be d at the hands of an angry mob?
I realize of course that later the daughters get their father drunk and themselves pregnant but I dont feel this in anyway detracts from my question. how can lot be portrayed as a hero, the only one worthy of being spared, when he would turn his daughters out like that?
here are two links to the story , a shorter one and a longer one:
http://biblicalstudies.qldwide.net.au/bs14_sodom_and_gomorrah.html
http://www.samsloan.com/lot.htm
2007-03-09 22:30:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is not a new question, theologians have debated that for a number of centuries. I suppose the answer lies in the verse of Jesus "Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart." We have all done horrible things in our lives, and we pray that God will forgive us for them, and most of us feel deeply sorry after some of the terrible things we do. fortunately, God looks deep in to our heart and sees what we really are and aspire to be. "As a man thinks in his heart, so he is." It really is comforting to me that God sees past my sins and sees my desires to be the kind of person He wants me to be. Anyway, that is the way I handle that passage.
2007-03-09 22:42:33 · answer #1 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lot knew the men didn't want his daughters,these men of Sodom and Gomorrah were homosexuals and wanted the angels because they were new to the city and they would have been fresh meat,I know this is hard to understand and that most answers are going to be the usual but the truth is his daughters were to do as Lot commanded even if it was to go out to the men in the street.
This was Lot remember not God.
2007-03-10 06:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God had a purpose for sparing Lot. It may have nothing to do with his being a good or bad person.
When there's an accident, and some die and some don't, you'll notice that Christians die and sinners are spared and vice versa.
We can't often know God's purpose for saving some and not others. But God uses evil people to accomplish His will sometimes.
2007-03-10 06:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by Fruitcake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord had decided that Sodom was too wicked to go on. He sent the Angels there to destroy the town. Lot was a holy man and knew that he could not let the townspeople attempt to hurt the Angels. He offered them his daughters because he loved the Lord and was willing to do anything to protect the angels. He fled the town with his wife and daughters and his wife was turned to salt because she looked back in longing for the things of this world. She had stored her treasures, clothes, fine furniture, jewels, nice house, etc. on earth not in heaven. Lot did what was expected of him he was willing to sacrifice all for his Lord and to protect the Angels of his Lord.
2007-03-10 06:46:14 · answer #4 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hospitality was looked at a lot differently back then... there was a segment on about this on The History Channel.
2007-03-10 06:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lot had to Honor the love from the angles by them going to his house because he was in there presence and of course do you think that they would allow his daugthers to be harmed .it could of been a test of faith . also his daugthers needed to reproduce early days of the multiplication no men around .
2007-03-10 07:05:08 · answer #6 · answered by makasha777 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋