Lot's Wife
For many feminist authors, and others who do not take the time tounderstand the themes of the Bible, the story of Lot's wife presents a hugenumber of emotional and philosophical problems. The story, in shortversion, tells of Lot and his family's hasty exodus from the cities ofSodom and Gomorrah just before fire falls on them from heaven. The citiesare havens of immoral behavior, and all the disease which accompaniesindiscriminant sex between men, woman, children, prostitutes and animals.These cities has fallen into rampantly immoral behavior, and whether of nottoday's readers agree, the God of the bible chose to destroy them ratherthan let the behavior, and disease spread to neighboring town, tribes, and Batey's poem identifies the one person who is the seemingly purevictim of the entire episode. As Lot and his family flee the town, Lot'swife, forever without a name, turns back and is "turned into a pillar of
he biblical writer leaves off, and fillsin the gaps of Mrs. She is leaving the flocks, herds, and lifestyle she hasfaithfully worked to create just because some whimsical God decided to burndown the town. What these poets also do not understand is that a merciful andloving god gives each individual the choice to follow his leading or not,and with the choice comes consequences. (the current archeological homefor Sodom and Sophomore It is likely that standing too close to the flameswould roast the person - turning them into salt and ash, just as the citieswere destroyed. Thewoman is tried, judged, convicted, and sentences for a simple backwardglance. As a result of hispromise to Abraham, God personally sends his angelic messengers to the cityto rescue Lot, and lead him away before the destruction of the Sodom andGomorrah. What would happen to me if I stood, lookingat a bonfire created by falling fire and ash which was large enough to sendtwo citied to the bottom of the Dead Sea. At this point, the reader should engage their thought processrather than claim victim hood. The reader does not know where, and at what point in their journey,and for how long Mrs. Lot made a different choice, and with the choice camerisk, and consequences. In the previous chapter, Abraham has an extended conversation withGod, and intercedes for his nephew Lot, and his family.
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