(February 2, 2017 at 11:37 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote:That Lot character was the best of the lot in that town. Remember, the real sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was that they didn't show hospitality to strangers (Ezekiel 16:49). And once you extended hospitality you were obligated to defend your guest at all costs.(February 2, 2017 at 11:28 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: hey, concubine !!!An apologist might say the Levite was an evil man doing an evil thing, but the scripture says Lot is a just and righteous man right before he offers his daughter to be gang raped in place of angels (that he didn't know were angels.)
pull yourself together !!!
The Lot story builds upon the Abraham story in Genesis chapter 18 where Abraham and Sarah extend hospitality to the three men. Afterwards those three men were going toward Sodom (Genesis 18:22).
In Genesis chapter 19 the three men had been transformed into two angels. Lot then takes them in.
There's a story in the Babylonian Talmud, which I can't find tight now, about a couple of towns that hated to take in guests.
There's a whole essay on how hospitality to strangers is comparable to worshiping God.
The problem is that Gentile Christians want to adopt the ethnocentric Jewish fairy tale as their own but have zero interest in doing anything that it says they should do.
