Miscellaneous

Genesis 19:35 So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again. 36 As a result, both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their own father.

We are told that Lot was a righteous man before God and so the lord had preserved him and his family from the destruction of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah when everything was destroyed including vegetation. I am intrigued by his character mainly because when men of Sodom demanded to have sex with his guests, Lot offered his two virgin daughters instead, saying they could do anything to them the way they like. It appears that life of a woman had very little value in those days and was often treated like an exchangeable commodity. A righteous man of God offering his daughters to be molested, raped and defiled by angry mob seem inappropriate to any reasonable man. Besides the above incident, in later part of the story, when Lot was living in a cave along with his two daughters, sinful incest within family members had been taking place yet the lord was completely silent rather than condemning their sexual immorality.

According to the story, his daughters intoxicated him with wine and one after another, they raped their father consecutively, however poor old Lot completely lost all his sense and remembers nothing. Lot, the man of God must be a heavy drinker, so drunk that he could not remember any sexual experience with his daughters. However, in reality, sexual relationship in the form of polygamy among the father and daughters would had been going on as part of life because Lot was able to impregnate both of them reminding us that sexual intercourse regularly occured. Savagery life pattern is clearly portrayed in the story of Lot.

Have you ever imagine what would be your faith if you were born in another country? 

You did not choose your religion out of free will,  rather it is the opposite; religion picked you from the very beginning as you were born. You are inclined to become a Muslim if you were born into a Muslim family or Muslim country, likewise you are likely to become a Christian if your parents are Christian or you were born into a Christian state. Religious teachings have been indoctrinated into you at the time when you did not have the requisite mental capacity to make your own choice correctly and thus you automatically become part of that faith which your parents followed. Hence, it is not you who adopted a particular religion independently out of free will but the practicing religion of your parent or your locality has picked you in the first place and gradually its teachings and belief system were implanted into your brain. In this way, you become a Christian , a Muslim, a Jew or a  Buddhist, not because you think it's the best and the only religion of truth but because you have been brainwashed to believe it. The fact is you  never had the opportunity to examine the positive and negative aspects of your religion before being accepted as your faith.

 

Exodus 7:3-5 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,  he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites.  And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.” 

Do you notice any injustice in this passage? Here, GOD has spoken these words; Moses was entrusted to convey God's message to Pharoah- to free the Israelites enslavement allowing them to move out of Egypt and set towards Canaan. However, in the meantime, God will harden Pharoah's heart to refuse Moses' demand so that God finds some excuses-( for non compliance to God's word by Pharoah) and punish the Egyptian.

Practically, Pharoah's refusal to release the Israelites from slavery was because God has intentionally harden Pharoah not to let them go. This was done so that God would finally find his reason to inflict misery and pain to the people of Egypt. It appears that God did not want to punish the Egyptian without finding any of their fault. Now, as God intended, Pharoah falls into God's trick and refused to free the Egyptian slaves and for this refusal, God sent 10 consecutive plagues and destroy Egypt. With this cunning move, God has finally punished Pharoah and made himself known to the people of Egypt that he is Lord. 

You decide yourself if this judgment was fair, unbiased and appropriate.