“ ‘…[W]e will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it’ ” (Genesis 19: 13).
The Bible story of Lot is a difficult one. The issue of whether Sodom and Gomorrah were condemned for homosexual behavior has been the subject of intense debate [1].
Some have argued that the sin which brought destruction down on the cities of the plain was a lack of hospitality toward strangers – intolerable in desert regions, as it would have placed lives at risk. Others have been outraged by the treatment of Lot’s virgin daughters, offered to the crowd in place of the strangers under Lot’s protection. They maintain, therefore, that the sin was rape.
Whichever interpretation we believe is correct, we should be able to agree that the story indicates there is a…
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