RE: Problems With The Bible Pt 5 - Sodom and Gomorrah
May 3, 2015 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2015 at 4:28 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(April 29, 2015 at 6:35 pm)Mental Outlaw Wrote: Taking a look at some of the problems with Sodom and Gomorrah, Why did God need to send angels to scout the city for him? Why would God negotiate with Abraham about the people in the city? Why didn't God keep lot from getting raped? And much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYiJoDJPSsk
The God character was simply the emperor (king, big wig, warlord) of the region at that time. He was nothing more than a man.
(April 29, 2015 at 7:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Most, if not all, of the old testament stories have holes in them. Abraham couldn't find ten good people there, but apparently there was Lot, his wife, his daughters, and two men they were betrothed to. That somehow disappear so that the girls need to rape their father to make sure they have children. That's six people already. There weren't four more? We know the standard is kind of low, because the most righteous man in town offered his daughters in the place of two strangers he pulled into his house. They didn't bang on the door, and beg to be let in. He insisted they come in, and offered his daughters up to the mob afterwards.
The Lot story is a story about the application of the First Commandment as found in Exodus 34:11-16. It was preferable that Lot and his daughters engage in incest rather than they take husbands from the surrounding tribes. That idea is replicated in some of the other stories, such as the bigot Rebekah getting ticked off about Esau's foreign wives. She wanted him to marry his relatives instead.
