Sodom and Gomorrah- Brittany

Abraham and Sarah were old and Sarah had surpassed the age for which she could bear children. God came to them and told them that by that time next year, Sarah would have a son. God decided that since Abraham would be the father of a nation and he lived next to Sodom and Gomorrah that he should share his plans for them with Abraham. God told Abraham that he had heard the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were evil and he sent angels disguised as men to see if the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were truly evil. God intended to destroy both cities, but Abraham managed to convince him that if God found ten righteous people in the cities then the cities would be spared. The angels (disguised as men) went to Sodom and then found Lot, who kept them in his home under his protection. The evil men of Sodom surrounded Lot’s home and asked that Lot send the two men outside so that they could have sex with them. To protect the two angels, Lot offered his two virgin daughters in their place. The angels decided that Lot was righteous and led Lot and his family out of the city before it was destroyed. On the way out, Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. The two daughters, realizing that they would be the last of their family, then got their father drunk and both had a child with him. The sons were ultimately ancestors of two nations, the Moabites and the Ammonites.

God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to punish the evil people that dwelled in them, and one can see that punishments like that one that could be deemed as not necessarily fair to all involved, perhaps not quite on that scale though, can still be seen today. Even now we fight wars and destroy entire groups of people because we deem something about them to be not right or evil. What about the innocents that are caught in the crossfire and unfairly punished for crimes they did not commit? Not to mention that the definition of evil is subjective, so unfair punishments are inevitable considering that there is always going to be someone that disagrees with something being deemed evil. That is simply something to consider.