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Lv 5

About Lot (from the good book)?

In the good book; in Genesis chapter 19 verse 30 there is a story where the daughters of Lot "lay' with their father and the reason given is for the sake of their lineage.. God has laws and usually such a behavior is against his laws but I believe those laws came later? Anyway. In that case why did such a behavior appear to be not wrong when usually it is wrong? 

Update:

It seemed that the story in the bible of Judah and Tamar are so similar. In both cases women make a controversial move in order to continue the lineage.

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  • Ralph
    Lv 7
    3 months ago
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    The fact of the matter: It was because they thought that God had destroyed the entire world, that is why they did what they did, and they can only have sex with a true believer of God, and lot was a true believer of God, that is why God spared them from death.

    Source(s): King James holy bible
  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    I swear you Trump supporting losers are the biggest projectors. You all talk about wanting to save the children yet every damn pedophile I seem to meet is another Trump Republican! That's pathetic that you were looking for an excuse to sleep with your daughter. You are a garbage inbred trash and after seeing this question, your answers on this website all make sense. You are about as Christian as the pope is Muslim.

  • 3 months ago

    It WAS wrong.  Not for Lot so much -- he was drunk senseless.  The part about his daughters getting pregnant by him might not have happened.  It might just be a Jewish smear against Ammon and Moab.  Either way, the Bible does not uphold such behavior.  It was wrong.

  • sarah
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    some are righteous people and some are not.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    Yes that's right, that's what you are interested in, letting people know how Satan, your god, used Lot's daughters, to do incest?

    Unfortunately Lot had been subjected to their drunkenness, that's why he didn't understand what he was doing, surely, after he returned to normal, he asked God for forgiveness, and punished his two daughters.

    Anyway, Lot was a believer of God, he was eventually saved, the problem now is yours, of which, with your hardened sins, you are going to hell.

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    BIBLE DOES NOT JUDGE PEOPLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. It simply reports the events.

  • 3 months ago

    This dreadful episode shows what went wrong when Lot kept himself and his 2 daughters holed up in a cave for years, after fleeing the destruction of Sodom. It is recorded as a warning and goes on to show hundreds of years of damaging results. The Bible honestly tells us what's wrong with humanity, and this is one episode regarding incest, previous to which his daughters had been engaged to 2 men in Sodom. Those men died in the destruction. His wife also died before they reached another town, disregarding the angelic warning not to turn around and look back.

    Lot knew that he was not exactly flavour of the month in the district, so he went to the mountains. There was no way his daughters were going to get husbands now! Besides, if they did, who would look after Lot in his old age as his wife had died too?

    In their desperation to become mothers and to keep the family line going, they did that wicked deed after getting their father drunk. But what a price was paid for that incest! One daughter became mother to a son who gave rise to the nation of the Moabites, the other to the nation of the Amonites. See Deuteronomy 2:9.19. Both those nations became bitter enemies of Abraham's descendants (and Lot was nephew to Abraham). Read 1 Samuel 14:47 and 2 Chronicles 20:1 for examples of that.

    The Bible often shows the calamities that result to future generations because of the sin of their forebears. King David's adultery with Bathsheeba is another such example. Those events are recorded as warnings to us. The Bible principle of "they have sown the wind; they will reap the whirlwind" is proven. (Hosea 8:7)

    Lot had chosen to live in Sodom even though the gross immorality of the people grieved him. Probably financial gain was the lure that kept him there. He barely escaped from its destruction and his 2 daughters tricked him into incest, with bitter wars resulting generations later. Lot never saw Abraham again after the Sodom episode. It was as if the episode turned him into a recluse. The sins of God's people are never glossed over or hidden in the Bible. They were all flawed people and we are not to idolise them, as if they were perfect. They were not!

  • 3 months ago

    Only God can judge your soul, those who judge others will be judged in the same way they judge others, if you judge with hate in your hearts so will you be judged, if you judge without forgiveness so will you be judged.  So those who have not sinned throw the first stone of judgement.  This is Jesus' teaching.  If you proclaim Jesus but do not follow his truth and his light and his way Jesus will not save you, he will turn from you.  

  • Den B7
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    It was wrong then too. Didn't you understand why they needed to get their father so drunk that he didn't know who he was with? The daughters knew it was wrong.

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    It was wrong.  People are all sinners, no matter who they are.  The Bible accurately records what people did.  And all sins past and future are forgiven by the person believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Death leads to immediate heaven or hell, and it is too late to be saved, after death.  To be in heaven and not hell, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God and who died on the cross and shed His blood to pay for all of our sins in full, and who was buried, and who resurrected from the dead.  The only way to avoid hell is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, without adding any of your own works.  See Romans 4:5, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, and John 3:16.

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