I am not a fan of this story. But the gist is that God is angry at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because they are wicked and full of sin. Their sin being homosexuality. So God wants to destroy the two cities therefore destroying the sin within, but Abraham doesn't want this to happen. So Abraham makes a deal with God saying if God can find 10 righteous people in the cities he will spare everyone. God sends three men into the city of Sodom to scout out 10 righteous people, and they are greeted by Lot at the city gates. Lot invites them into his home and feeds them, but in the evening the other men from the city demand that Lot hand the foreigners over so they can have sex with them. Lot wants to protect the outsiders since he knows they don't agree with the practice of homosexuality so he offers up his two virgin daughters instead. The men refuse and try to forcefully take the newcomers. God then tells Lot to take his wife an daughters and soon to be son-in-laws and flee the city because he is going to destroy it, but only Lot and his two daughters make it to safety. They decide to live in a cave, but the daughters were afraid since there were no other men to mate with that their family line would run out. So they get their father drunk one night and sleep with him so that they can have children and keep their family line alive.
I think that there is a lot of unfair punishment in the world. I think that God destroying these two cities was unfair punishment. I do think that the men should have been punished for not respecting the wishes of the foreigners not to want to have sex with them, but I don't think they should have been punished for being homosexual. To me homosexuality isn't a sin, but in this story it is so therefore God thinks his punishment is justified,. I also think that destroying their villages was a bit dramatic, but that was Gods call not mine.
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