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Lot left Zoar and retired with his two daughters to a cave in an adjacent mountain. In Gen. 19:30-38, Lot's daughters incorrectly believed they were the only females to have survived the devastation. They assumed it was their responsibility to bear children and enable the continuation of the human race. On two subsequent nights, according to the plan of the older daughter, they got their father drunk enough to have sexual intercourse with them, drunk enough that he is described as being unaware of what was happening. By him each became pregnant. The first son was named Moab (Hebrew, lit., "from the father" [meh-Av]). He was the patriarch of the nation known as Moab. The second son was named Ammon or Ben-Ammi (Hebrew, lit., "from our nation"). He became the patriarch of the nation of Ammon

2007-06-29 05:11:16 · 24 answers · asked by adamjer 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Dear Christians, How God can allow a prophet of him to sleep with his Daughters

2007-06-29 05:17:40 · update #1

Pleasw when you want to answer consider the the quality and the protection that God gives his messangers. Do not simply say it is in the BIBLE, Yes it it is in the Bible but how true it is. Does that mean the God who saved LOT from the destruction of his people cannot save him to sleep with his daughters. I ask you to be reasonable

2007-06-29 05:22:57 · update #2

JohnFromNC

If God had not allowed it how it then had happened. We beleive only what God allows happens.

2007-06-29 06:00:28 · update #3

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Untrue. Unfortuantely, the Bible contains historical bias, as does many sacred texts. Doesn't mean the text as a whole is illlegitimate, just means that we should also be conscious of the failings of the men used to write it. I believe the Bible is one of many inspired texts; but of course I dont' take that story literally. I think anyone who does needs to think about the historical context: conquest of the Promised Land, which appears to have been achieved in a brutal manner. We shouldn't let these things put us off, though.

2007-06-29 05:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by Jerusalem Delivered 3 · 1 3

God did not allow his prophet to sleep with his daughters. They just did it, as the story suggests. They didn't think they were going to have a chance of getting a husband. Lot, a prophet? Anyway, sin is sin. This type of story is what makes the Bible what it is. Great. It reveals the sin of man. Even the sin of men who followed God. The Bible doesn't sugar coat anything. If the history had sin involved, we know it. It reveals our sin and unbelief too. What do you think about the legacy of those two names, Moab and Ammon? Nothing like having a region named after you.

Edit: Our use of allow is different. I read your use of "allow" as God doing it himself. God allows (by not stopping) a lot of things. He works with what he gets. God will not intervene in our personal choices..nearly all of the time. He does intervene on the world level. I can think of a few Bible stories where it is implied that he influenced some decisions. That's the greatest thing about God. We're not perfect - He is. The Bible is full of imperfect men and women who he used to bring about his purpose. It should give all of us hope. If the requirement was perfection...we might as well all give up.

2007-06-29 05:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0 0

Yes, it's God's word. It shows what happens when people follow their own moral code and plans rather than ask God what they should do. Just because something is written in the bible doesn't mean that God approved of what the people did.

A few corrections:
1) the daughters believed that either there were no other men or no other men in the country they were in.
2) I don't think Lot was considered a prophet.
3) It wasn't Lot's plan either, anyway. His daughters got him drunk and lay with him without him knowing about it.

2007-06-29 05:19:52 · answer #3 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0 1

we are dwelling in international wherein rape, drunkeness and incest are lots too worry-unfastened place. some million in 4 women human beings will journey some variety of a rape or sexual assult throughout their lifetime. i do no longer even % to renowned the information on how many human beings get below the impression of alcohol or stoned and do stupid issues in some unspecified time interior the destiny in this existence. So for the Bible to be the actual observe of God, it needs to handle those themes. It needs to coach the worry that comes from getting so below the impression of alcohol which you will be molested (2 nights in a row) and not are conscious of it. Or to coach the effects of incest. the two Moab and Ammon have been actual international locations, established in historic previous and from thousands of sources exterior of the Bible. They have been the two international locations that have been in consent conflict and conflict with one yet another and the Jews. Wars that doesn't have been occurring had the daughters no longer raped their father. Dire effects for their strikes - probable thousands (if no longer hundreds of thousands) killed over the centuries using fact of it. on condition that this variety of ingredient occurs often, of path God is going to comprise it in his observe. he's showing the evil of such strikes, and their effects. He additionally places a number of regulations against such strikes, alongside with drunkeness, rape and incest. If this replaced into in basic terms a e book written by ability of guy, they could have swept all of that below the rug, and left Lot looking like a saint. God, regardless of the indisputable fact that, documents all the information. How else are we to income the evils of such deeds?

2016-10-19 01:14:20 · answer #4 · answered by manca 4 · 0 0

I find it refreshing that the bible tells about the real nitty gritty lives of it's people. No white-wash not disinformation or ommission about what really happened. It does not say what they did was good or condone it. It just says that it happened. You will find that the Ammonites and the Moabites were discriminated against by the Jews in later years because of their origins. That is proof that it really happened. However, God showed His love for all men by including a Moabite woman in the geneology of Jesus. (Ruth)

2007-06-29 05:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by Yo C 4 · 0 0

What's your point? It's in the Bible, it's God's word! The Bible is what God wants us to know about history, about specific people, places and events, to know His plan of savlations, His 14 covenants with His people, etc. This is in the Bible. This is His word. I don't understand what pint you are trying to get at?

2007-06-29 05:17:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Incest was never a sin untill the 10 commandments..

Freaky to know we are all related to one another in some way huh?


But that was not the question... If it came from scripture.. It is the word of God, how can you prove it i not?

2007-06-29 05:18:17 · answer #7 · answered by AlleycatJo 5 · 0 0

Why should anyone have to prove (not proof) anything to you?

Why don't you prove it's not the true word of God?
It seems to me as if you are just pulling verses out of the Bible, goading others, and being antagonistic.

What's your point?

2007-06-29 05:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0 0

I don't know for a fact this is definitely true.

A lot of things in the bible aren't true.

Here's what peaks my curiosity......
If Lot was so drunk that he couldn't remember, how was he able to get it up? I know it's crass, but let's be reasonable. Sounds like being drunk is an excuse and he was a molester of his daughters.

2007-06-29 05:25:20 · answer #9 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 1 1

I'm having trouble decyphering your question. Are you asking us to "prove that its the true word of God"? If so, then you have already proven by reading Scripture that is in the Bible. What makes you think that part of the Bible is true while part of it isn't?

2007-06-29 05:19:16 · answer #10 · answered by Kumori 4 · 0 1

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