Comments on: Abraham and Lot in the Bible

By: Bob Klahn

Bob Klahn — Sat, 20 May 2023 19:03:49 +0000

In reply to Terri Main. No, as recent history has shown, a huge number make bad choices out of bad intentions. This was all written before Jan 5, 2021. Now we know, a huge number is truly filled with hate and greed. And we had a president who was in that line, but only cared for himself and not even his own followers/worshipers.

By: Bob Klahn

Bob Klahn — Sat, 20 May 2023 19:00:21 +0000

In reply to Michael Creech. How many wives and concubines did the men of the Bible have?

By: Bob Klahn

Bob Klahn — Sat, 20 May 2023 18:57:17 +0000

In reply to Patrick Tilton. Well Said!

By: Bob Klahn

Bob Klahn — Sat, 20 May 2023 18:54:47 +0000

In reply to Terri Main. Excellent! Add to that, he was not choosing for himself alone, but also his people. That is justification for making his choice. Assume Abraham knew Lot had more people he had to care for, so gave him first choice to chose the land that most suited the needs of his people. Sounds pretty righteous to me.

By: Bob Klahn

Bob Klahn — Sat, 20 May 2023 18:45:20 +0000

In reply to JohnB. How was the god, Chemosh, a problem? If they worshiped one god, and that god was good, then why was it not another name for Jehovah? We have many names for God, it all depends on the language you speak. Your analysis is weak.

By: Patrick Tilton

Patrick Tilton — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 23:45:44 +0000

The writers of Genesis invented origin myths for all the peoples present in the so-called ‘Promised Land’ and its neighboring territories. By inventing ahistorical eponymous ancestors, and stories regarding how these individuals were allegedly related — and, especially, how they behaved amongst each other — they could thus explain the era in which the stories were written. You can bet that neither the Canaanites nor the Moabites and Ammonites ever believed that their peoples were descended from the fictional ancestors depicted in the text of Genesis (i.e. Canaan, Moab and Ben-Ammi). The scandalous origins of those particular characters — through parent/child incest — were invented by the Genesis authors in order to justify the brutal conflicts waged by the Israelites against them, to delegitimize their rights to dwell in territories that the Israelites’ god purportedly promised to Abraham and his progeny. It’s all a pious fiction, a tapestry of pseudohistorical propaganda — an aetiology with a political agenda — meant to benefit one people opposed to other peoples.

By: flyguymt18@yahoo.com

flyguymt18@yahoo.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:20:47 +0000

In reply to Michael Creech. Michael, you seem to have a bias that you’re not aware of. The intent of the article is to show a view of lot that is not often represented. As the article pointed out, Lot is viewed as a cardinal person, but the Word definitively calls him “righteous Lot.” Are all of us guiltily of slandering Lot’s character?

By: Michael Creech

Michael Creech — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:39:14 +0000

Yet another article from BAG and a writer which basically present the Bible and Church history from a secular perspective. Lot was called righteous for the same reason that Abraham or any person is: He believed in God. Apart from God he was wicked. And the Bible makes it quite clear he was more carnally minded than Abraham. The real point of this article is to attempt to cast doubt on the infallibility of the Bible.

By: TRENT

TRENT — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:54:48 +0000

In reply to JohnB. excellent, that's why it pays to read for oneself.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:56:59 +0000

If the hypothesis that Lot was a greedy and grasping man opposed to Abraham and his God, why was it that — after listening to Abraham’s plea for the righteous people of Sodom to be saved — was a pair of angels sent to Lot to warn him of the impending destruction? He and his wife and daughters were apparently the only people saved from the destruction of that wicked city.
Any suggestion that he lived in Sodom so he could be like the Sodomites is put to rest when he offers his daughters up to the mob to protect the angels from their sexual advances.
Up until their escape from Sodom and the destruction of that city and its sister city, Gomorrah, Lot was seen as a righteous man who, like his uncle, worshipped the God, Jehovah (Yahweh). It was his descendants who turned away from worshipping the God of their father and uncle.
The Moabites and Ammonites who switched to worshipping the god, Chemosh.