Genesis 19: What Sodom means

Addiction

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GENESIS 19: What Sodom means

I’m reading Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Lot is fearful of letting go, of leaving the past behind, even when his neighbors reveal themselves to be wicked (to say the least). He is so accommodating, so compromised, that he’ll send his daughters out to be raped to spare his angelic guests.

The angels have to forcefully get Lot and his family out of Sodom; that’s the degree of Lot’s attachment to the city, his fear of change, and his unwillingness to believe this is actually happening.

And, Lot’s wife “looked back.” She let the past consume her.

Lot and his daughters seemed to have lost everything because he delayed in listening to the voice of the LORD.

In previous installments I’ve speculated that the LORD represents the “inner knowing” i.e. “in-tuition” (I don’t recall where I first read that). What gets in the way of intuition is denial: “that’s not REALLY going to happen, will it?”