What was Lot's Sin

Susan W. Murphy
Susan W. Murphy Member Posts: 177 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum
Does anybody know exactly what Lot's sin was and can give me a scripture for this?

Thanks.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,209 ✭✭✭✭

    I may have missed 'sin', but 2Peter 2:7 gives Lot the seal of righteousness. The jewish 2nd temple writings make him out to be sexually sinful (Jubilees), followed later by the Mishnah. Which makes the 2 Peter writer curious.

    Lot's wife however, gets nailed, but it's somewhere between disagreeing with her hubby (Clement), turning back (Luke 17:32), or just being salt-ified (the command was from an angel, not YHWH).

    Oddly, the daughters seem to get off scott-free for the most part.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,103

    Susan W. Murphy said:

    Does anybody know exactly what Lot's sin was and can give me a scripture for this? Thanks.

    In Topic Guide type Lot and consult the various articles listed (AYBD discusses the possibility of 'sin'). Jesus talks about Lot (and Noah) in Luke 17:28-30 and it appears Peter expanded upon that in 2 Peter 2:5-8 (I got these from a Basic Search of my ESV bible for sin AND <Person Lot (person)>).

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  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,832 ✭✭✭

    Susan W. Murphy said:

    Does anybody know exactly what Lot's sin was and can give me a scripture for this? Thanks.

    Here's an article I found on the Gospel Coalition's website that may help in researching the answer to your question: 

    https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/you-asked-how-could-sinful-lot-have-been-righteous 

    DAL

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