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While writing the book on Abraham for the Bible Biography Series, Butler realized the material found in Genesis 19, and the story of Lot, deserved their own book-length treatment. Butler examines Lot in the following chapters: • Development of Lot • Departure from Abraham • Deportation of Sodom • Delegation from Heaven • Debauchery of Sodom • Declaration about Sodom • ...

But there is fault in such reasoning. The fault is that the compromise is viewed in this situation as necessary to bring about Lot’s salvation. But such a conclusion severely limits God and is an insult to God. Why would it be impossible for Lot to get saved if he had remained in Ur? Was God unable to save him there as well as in Canaan? To insist that disobedience (Abraham’s in this case) was necessary for Lot to be saved is to try to justify evil because of some good it brings. Such is a very defiled
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