Had an exchange with a friend about Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lot was given a chance to save the two Cities from destruction if he found ten good persons in either. He could not and therefore destruction rained on both. So the Bible tells us!
(when Lot and his family left the City, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of Salt. Is this not a harsh penalty for being sadly curious about what is happening to your home town?)
Is it believable that in two cities there was not one single good person? Either Lot did not look very carefully, or the story is just a "story".(and a bad one, at that.). When God sent the Flood and drowned everybody but Noah and his family, does that mean there was not one innocent person, other than Noah and his family on the entire world??? What about new born babies and children who hadn't yet had a chance to be "bad"? What about faithful, good husbands and devoted loving wives and mothers? Was really everybody bad? Did "God" really think He made a mistake in creating this sad lot? Did he not know that He was all-wise, all-knowing, all-powerful, all etc etc etc and therefore He could not possibly have made a mistake. ... and don't, dear Joe, give me this excuse about "Free Will"... despite Free Will, man could not have surprised God...since He knew all there was, all there is and all there will be. In the "Form" in which He is described in ALL Scriptures of ALL Religions He does, in my humble opinion, not exist. If He exists it must be in another form, about which Man cannot write or speak.
Let me go back to the story of Lot. Did not two Angels seek asylum in his house and several men appeared evidently wanting "to know" the persons in Lot's house. "To know" is a term used for sexual intercourse. Lot refused and... now get this--- offered his daughters so that the men "could do with them as they wanted". Holy Cow! What a good father! Would not a good man have fought these men to the end and, if necessary died in the effort? But Nooo... Lot wanted to protect the supernatural Angels and offered his daughters for rape and fornication...
What is this rubbish all about?
The Brothers Grim collected better Fairy Tales.
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