My best riddle; What about Lot's daughters?

Question

How could it have been a gesture of love for Lot to offer his daughters to the men outside his door?

(If you know the answer to this puzzle (for sure), please e-mail me the answer; so as not to spoil it for the others who are trying to guess the answer.)

Clues to come:

Dear "alotta" -lol and I love you, but this really does have serious answer that may shock your socks off.

Responses to previous guesses:

Dear "blank" - your answer is a traditional church answer. And, it is absolutely wrong. -- sorry about that. What I mean is, it is not even a biblical or textual answer.

Dear "nicey" - I like the way you use the word "love". If you had said "worship", I would have reminded you of Jesus telling us to love God; rather than worship him. Do you remember this biblical statement from God? "I am sick of your stinking sacrifices".

Clues #1 and #2 -- "textual" and "I am sick of your stinking sacrifices". - signed by God, in the Bible.

Please remember, if you know the answer for sure, (the one that shows it was a loving gesture) don't post it and ruin it for the others. I will post your (real) answer later and choose your answer as best answer.

Dear "God Bless" - when you guess the answer, you will see it was a very loving gesture for his daughters: both to the religious and non religious person.

Thanks "sunman". Maybe, I just thought this was a good riddle. - This question is going over like a lead balloon. - I need the calvary to arrive.

Dear "salene", Very sad to me also, when I first read it. You are going to be shocked when you hear the answer that proves we are not very open-minded when we first hear about something.

I promise you, when you hear the answer, you will agree that It was a gesture of love. Love of the highest degree.

Dear "maurice" - Thanks for the e-mail, but I am referring to a gesture of love; as defined by both religious and non-religious people.

Dear Jamie, You will be shocked when you hear the answer. I was a very loving gesture, and it did not include that bad word we assumed from story.

Dear Jamie - good attitude. You will feel so cleansed when you hear the answer. - And, you might stop disliking me for my apparent cavalier attitude. believe me. I get your point. I felt the same way when I first read the story.

Dear Jamie, I not only respect women. I spent the last 10 years of my career as a federal investigator protecting women's rights in the work place. (U.S. Department of Labor)

Clue #3 - What have you assumed about the characters? What have you read in the story, and judged without considering the setting of the story?

Clue #4 : What have you not considered? But is specifically mentioned in the story.

Whoops! Maybe I should have cited the Bible verses: Gen 19:1-16

Dear "Kkings" you have a good open-minded approach. And you are very close to the answer. But the answer is even better than that (not in general) but in specifics. -

Thanks "Kkings" - As I said, your open-minded attitude and love seeking spirit got you in the door with your first guess. And, probably by your confidence in me, you knew that this would have a happy ending. -- I will e-mail you the answer.

Final clue: Final Clue: Re-read, the question with emphasis on "How could it have been" a gesture of love.

All the ingredients are in the story. However, they have not been joined together in order to make any sense. So how can you join these ingredients in a way, that would confirm what God said about Lot's character? And, could be a gesture of love; whether or not you are religious or non-religious.

Answer 1

i'm really not sure about this. i think that once he invited the two men into his home he became responsible for them. he also realized that they were special. i don't know if he knew they were angels, but he knew that they were good men.
when the men of sodom came to his door i think that at first they were curious and wanted to know who they were.
i think that they became angry when lot refused them, and lot knew that they would most likely hurt the two men.
he offered his daughters so he could protect his guests. i'm not sure how the daughters felt about this, because the version that i read didn't say. but i think they must have loved their father very much to go along with that.

well, i'm probably way off here but i thought i would give it a try.
eclectic pagan

you really ask some tough questions. maybe that's why i like them.

Answer 2

Okay, I had to spend a lot of time thinking about this....and the other clues helped. Here is the guess:

The men were courting the daughters or in love whatever...and the daughters WANTED to marry the men.

*Okay...maybe I should have read the Bible story before I answered. I obviously don't remember the whole Lot story very well. The first guess isn't going to work. Give me some time to think up another guess....Wow...after I read the NIV version I realized I was WAY off the first guess. They really state it bluntly in that version.

Here's about the only thing I can think of: Maybe by offering the girls it would either help the guys not want the men or it would at least keep the guys from having sex with the men, since that was what (or part of the reason) they were going to get punished. I guess what I'm trying to say is Lot was hoping to change the men's ways so that the two angel/guys wouldn't have to destroy the city.

This one was a difficult one. I don't think I'm even close, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

Answer 3

Wether it was a Gesture of "Love" I Don't Know; I suspect more that the story reflects that the daughters were seen as Property or "Chattel" in that time, and if Lot had any inkling that these Men in his House were Divine, or merely just Men of High Standing, it would still make the same sense for Lot to offer his Property, UNLESS, Lot Knew his Offer was a Kind of "offer you have when you are not having an offer" what I would call a "Claytons" offer.... I don't know the expression, but it would be the offer expression of a Bluff, but I am still inclined to think that the Chattel Idea Stands, and that the "gesture of Love" is not true.

Answer 4

Well I am not sure what you mean...Except that it may have been a act of sacrifice to keep the men from committing such an act of rape upon the angels in Lots house. Perhaps it would have been less of a sin for the men of that day to rape the virgin daughters than to sodomize the angels? Lot knew the angels could call the wrath of God down and kill everyone. Even though he loved his daughters he was willing to give them up to keep the heavenly visitors safe.

Answer 5

women weren't valued lots above farm animals and slaves in those days. So Lot replaced into quite offering a commerce to the randy sodomites in substitute for them to bypass away the beautiful angels on my own. He valued his travellers greater suitable than he valued his daughters, the affection gesture replaced into for the angels no longer for his daughters.

Answer 6

Hmm...I'll have to do some research and thinking on this. I vaguely remember this story. Can you be patient? I may need to sleep on it.

---you operate at a level unfamiliar to many. I love your questions. This one is particularly challenging.


-----Ok, I've reread it. To me, he was basically saying: 'If you take my daughters instead of the two men inside, your lives will be spared'. It was an 'ironic' act of love toward the men outside.

Answer 7

Unfortunately Lot believed he could save the people if he hid the people from the angles, his actions were derived from divine true love and compassion for the people. That is my guess.

can you please have a go at answering my question?

Answer 8

NOOOOOOOOO!
Rape is assault and no joke. Don't care if it is in the bible. No wonder so many men show us they have no respect for us.

I really hope I have misunderstood this.

Answer 9

emailing

Answer 10

emailing..