Monday, December 8, 2014

Sodom and Gomorrah-- Haley Longworth

God sent three angles to Israel, He being one of them, who were disguised as men. God sent the other two angels to Sodom and Gomorrah to find evil people and witness the evil acts being committed in the city while God told Abraham he was going to destroy the city because of its wickedness. Abraham compromised with God that if the angels found ten righteous people in the city then God would not destroy it. The other two angels went to Sodom and Gomorrah and stayed with Abraham's relative, Lot. That night all the men of the city came to Lot's house and demanded to have sex with the other two men. When Lot offered his two virgin daughters instead, the men became angry and said they were going to tear his house down. The angels told him and his family to flee the city because they were going to destroy it, but his daughters' fiancees didn't believe them so the died with the city. Lot, his daughters, and his wife were on their way to a nearby city, but his wife disobeying the angels orders by looking back and turned into salt. The daughters realized they were the only girls life, so to keep their family name going, the got their dad drunk and had sex with him. Punishment is a difficult topic because everyone has different morals. There are such a wide range of lifestyles and standards for living that it is difficult to assign one way of punishment to everybody. Some parents let their children drink alcohol underage and others don't, so there is a question as to how each should be punished if they get caught. Also, almost everyone responds differently to certain kinds of punishment. Some kids may steer clear of getting home past curfew because they hate getting yelled at, and others don't care at all if their parents yelled at them. Those kids may care more about getting their phone taken away.

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