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@ SuperDave
2025-04-22 21:44:11
Gotcha, my mistake. You mentioned Lot’s daughters, I was addressing one of those horrible scenarios where you can see how the city affected their reasoning. Those two girls raping their father came later. Earlier in the story, Lot offering them to be raped was not justified at all. It was wrong and terrible, and violates God’s law regarding how to treat your family. We know that by what the rest of the Bible says. He was a good man trying to live well in a bad place, and made a gross error under stress. Absolutely wrong. But that account paints him warts and all. Not rationalizing his actions, it was stupid and foolish to live there. And To marry your daughters into that culture. Abraham offered his wife to pharaoh, that was wrong. David killed his general to sleep with his wife. Wrong. These were good men but also sinners, warped, and in need of mercy and internal change just like us. We can see their repentance and admission of wrong, but only Christ is good. The way the NT paints it, 2 Pet 2:7 Lot was righteous and distressed by their lawless deeds in Sodom, but he was also responsible for what happened to his family. He is accountable and should have left sooner.