Jan
Harmensz. Muller, Lot and His Daughters, 1600
Today,
reply is on incest, Lot’s
daughters, correct sacred
knowledge,
and the work of the Bible to make sin recognizable. Different sexual
sins are described in the holy writings, however, it is an error to
label all sexual behavior as sin, just as it is an error to insist
that the “original sin” committed by Adam and Eve was that the
pair performed sexual intercourse. Those who lack sacred
knowledge regarding sin as
the transgression of divine law usually are quick to express
condemnation for sexual behavior, and to judge against others for
sexual activity. We see this somewhat with the condemnation of Lot’s
virgin daughters whose concern in their escape from Sodom was how to
fulfill their duty as child-bearers. In ancient Bible times, a man’s
children and household were accounted as his inheritance from GOD,
his personal property, and his wealth. For this reason, Lot offers
his two daughters in ransom to a crowd threatening to rape the two
strangers he had welcomed into his home. While appearing as
unselfish and willing sacrifices similar to Isaac at Mount Moriah,
neither of the girls were harlots, yet, both have been labeled as
sexual figures among modern Christian readers. It is written:
Galatians 5: 19-23, King James Version (KJV): 19 Now the works of
the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in
time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo!
Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID
“Anonymous” (no profile information shown) posted the following:
Is
it true that the Bible has father daughter incest in it?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is
right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment
with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live
long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
(Ephesians 6: 1-4, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Adam, Family and Law (07/05/2017); Why Was Lot
Spared? (12/20/2015); Incest? (10/29/2015); The Judgment Against
Sodom? (04/10/2015); Remembering Lot’s Wife (11/04/2014); Sinless
Until Advent? (11/05/2014); Lot and the Angels (05/04/2014);
Expulsion from Eden (04/05/2014)
“Anonymous”,
sin is the transgression of divine law. Until the law of Moses was
granted, incest does not appear as a sexual and social sin associated
with the frameworks of family and marriage. While the primary work
of the Bible is to make GOD knowable, known, accessible, and
approachable, the Bible also must expose the otherwise unseen process
and substance of sin. Sin opposes the continued existence of sacred
law, the Lawgiver, and all divine order throughout the universe. Sin
is not a spirit, has not been sent forth by GOD, and sin is no
physical matter that may be removed by a single act of divine
destruction. Even so, sin may dominate awareness and self-will
within created beings and living creatures.
In
the same way the living do not immediately apprehend the “exceeding
sinfulness of sin,” that sin generates enduring consequences that
can continue long after the death of the sinner, and that sin is
contrary to both divine and human nature, many become convinced and
deceived thinking their choice to sin has been natural, normal,
practical, and necessary. Sin often includes elements of counterfeit
authority, deceit, false innocence, presumption, and self-promotion.
The
account of incest committed by the daughters of Lot does not appear
as the kind of romantic story we often see now in movies and
television. The characters do not repeatedly express burning lust
and passion as in novels and stories for amusement and entertainment.
At a time when the covenant law for Israel was not yet written in
stone by the finger of GOD, divinity appeared within their lives
through their association with Abraham and the covenant of
circumcision. Angels were dispatched to secure the deliverance of
their father, Lot, from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and
their blessing was in the nature of inheritance. The girls were
faced with issues of immaturity, isolation, loneliness, their mother
turned to a pillar of salt by her disobedience, and the certainty
that their father would not be granted another mate. They correctly
acknowledged that they themselves would have to take accountability
for their own life, death and survival; and mistakenly believed it
was their duty to ensure their father’s
name would be continued by his own heir. In this error they
continued the practices of Adam, and copied Abram ensuring an heir
through Hagar. That the daughters used alcohol to seduce their
father shows they both realized he would deny them as unreasonable
and unrighteous: both babies could have been born as females.
Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Romans 7: 9-14, King James Version (KJV): 9 For I was alive
without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived,
and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to
life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion
by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by
that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become
exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I
am carnal, sold under sin.
2.
Proverbs 23: 27-35, KJV: 27 For a whore is a deep ditch;
and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lieth in
wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among
men. 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who
hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek
mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter
perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I
awake? I will seek it yet again.
3.
Ezekiel 16: 49-50, KJV: 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy
sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was
in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of
the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Romans 8: 1-9, KJV: 1 There is
therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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