Genesis 19, Sodom And Gomorrah & Lot's Wife And Daughters

We have all experienced the feeling and pressure of needing to conform and blend into society, as well as letting the past harm us on the way to what the future holds. In Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah & Lot’s Wife and Daughters we learn about the story of Lot and his family and 2 angels who are sent by God to destroy the corrupted city they live in. In the story, Lot’s wife is turned into a “pillar of salt” (26) from looking back at the ash that is left of the city, after being instructed to not look back. In the story, we also learn about how Lot’s daughters believed there were no other men left on earth, and to keep their family life alive got their father to drink enough wine to make him impregnate both of them. In the poem Lot’s Wife,

It is inferred that the city was populated with homosexuals, and when they discovered the angels were in Lot’s house, they attempted to break in to take them and have sex with them “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”(5). Lot instead offered and sacrificed the virginity of his daughters in place of the men they wanted. The angels realized they needed to destroy the city, and told Lot they needed to flee and escape or they too would fall with it. It can be inferred that Lot’s two daughters had been surrounded by corruption their whole lives due to living in Sodom, and this could play a role in the reasoning behind why they committed incest with their father and seeing no morals being broken, and say it was acceptable and a logical solution. The fear Lot held onto spread to his wife and daughters. This fear leads to decision-making according to what we think we are only capable of, and this can result in self-debilitation and cause more suffering as seen in Lot, his wife, and his daughters' decisions. Lot’s wife was killed due to her fear of leaving the only city she has ever known, and not letting her past go to ensure her right to a future. Lot’s daughters, in fear that the human population was extinct, forced their father to become drunk enough to sleep with them to continue their family line “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children…. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father” (31-32 pg. 52). Lot himself, refused to follow the orders from the angels to flee to the mountains due to his fear of staying at Zoar, (despite pleading to not go to the mountains), and he ended up running to a cave there anyway. This situation could be a pure explanation for the sinister