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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: christians4jews on November 01, 2007, 09:45:43 PM
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Hi jtfers. Can someone explain the story of lot , his wife and his daughters... in the torah/tonak please...
Obviously god ddi not command this of us, so what is the hidden message behind this story..
Much appreciated for the answers...
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What do you think? :)
wayne jude
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one of my favorite stories actually...basically, Lot was the most decent person in Sodom and Gemorah..and when you parallel him to Abraham..Abraham was the most decent person on his part of the world. However, Abraham's decency and morality was much much higher relatively to Lot.
If you read the story in the beginning, Abraham greets his guests in a much more honorable way compared to Lot. He picks the best meat and cakes for his guests, while Lot prepares unlevened bread.
When the Sodomites threaten to knock down Lot's door to rape the angels, Lot offers up his daughters instead of the guest. That's a horrible thing to do to offer either! It might show that Lot was affected by his society.
Lot's wife looks back when the city is being destroyed. This might be figurative to her not wanting to let go of that old society..and therefore she was nothing more than a pillar of salt.
When Lot goes to caves to hide, his daughters are kind of pissed that they have no one and so they make their father drunk and end up comitting incest with him so that they may have offspring. The offspring of Lot became the Moabites...the Moabites were enemies wtih the Israelites.
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Dannycookie sums it up well. The main lesson of the story of Lot is to not live together with evil people, because they make you like them. Lot's daughters really thought that they were the last ones alive on Earth and the entire world was destroyed so their intentions were for the sake of heaven, but they were wrong.