Sodom and Gomorrah - CatyBeth Gooding

Abraham's wife Sarah couldn't have any children because she was too old. But God's men appeared to them and Abraham was hospitable so God found favor in Abraham, so God said that at the same time the next year, Sarah would have a son, and through that son, Abraham would be the father of a nation. Sodom and Gomorrah were cities of sin next to where Abraham was living, so God sent the men of God to destroy those cities. Abraham pleaded God not to destroy the cities if he could find 50 righteous men in the city. God agreed. Abraham eventually persuaded God not to destroy the cities if He could find 10 righteous men in the cities. So when the men entered Sodom, they began to search for righteous men, but they only found Lot, who housed the men from the grasp of the sinful. The sinful men yelled that Lot should throw the men of God out of the house so that they could have sex with them. Lot instead offered his virgin daughters instead of the men of God. The men found that Lot was righteous, but found no other righteous men, so they told Lot to gather the people that "belonged" to Lot, including his wife and daughters and sons-in-law. The sons-in-law laughed in Lot's face, so the men of God forced Lot and his family to leave, and told them to not look back. Lot's wife looked back at the city, so she turned into a pillar of salt. Lot and his daughters found refuge in a cave where the daughters realized that their family line would die with them, so they got their father drunk and both had a son with Lot. These sons became the father of their own nations.

There is a lot of unfair punishment in this world. Many people are punished for things they did not do, which is unfair, not only to them, but to the people who truly did those things. The innocent ones have time, friendship, happiness or money stolen from them, most of the time something they cannot get back. The guilty ones are the ones stealing the time, friendship, happiness or money from the innocent, and they are not reprimanded for it, or they don’t feel sorry.