Was it wrong for Lot to offer his daughters to the wicked men in Sodom?

[Nelka]

If I walk quietly and hear a loud “boom”, if I turn around to see what happened, would you say I looked back “longingly”. Unless the passage in the OT makes it abundantly clear, i think you’re pulling stuff out of a hat.

I don’t think you can compare a loud boom out of the blue to what happened there. I think the shock would have killed her anyway.

 

[SighGuy]

It boils down, then, to fundamental differences between all of us. Differences at a more superficial level can be solved through debate. Fundamental differences, however, are not easily rectified, and I don’t think any of us can benefit from further argument, therefore farewell!

 

[Thorns]

Mike NJ,

I think for those believers who know better ought to both be strong in faith and good works. For deathbed converters, for instance, they obviously would lack the works, but their faith would save them and they will probably make up for their lack of works in Purgatory. So for the latter, they can be saved through faith. If you know better, you need works too, if you’re capable.

Lot having faith is half the battle. The half that everyone in those cities lacked and rejected.

 

[Shirtless]

Could you please provide the reference for what Jim Blackburn said?

I tend to think it was indeed wrong for Lot to offer his daughters. But he was under extreme duress, and so perhaps while it was objectively sinful, God did not hold him highly culpable for the sin.

Yes, I find it “a little messed up”. But if this is the example of a good man in Sodom, it perhaps helps explain why God chose to obliterate the place.

The sin for which Sodom was punished was not homosexuality.

“Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were proud, sated with food, complacent in prosperity. They did not give any help to the poor and needy.”

Ezekiel 16:49 (New American Bible)