Why would angels need protecting from a raging mob?

[OnceConvinced]

The story of Lot tells us that a couple of angels visited Lot and that a gay mob demanded they be brought out so they could have their way with them. Lot then did the absolutely atrocious act of offering up his daughters to them to protect the angels.

The question I have about this story and I can never get a straight answer is why would angels need to be protected anyway? Angels are spiritual beings and even if they somehow manifested in human bodies I still don't see what harm could possibly befall them.

So why did these angels need to be protected from the angry gay mob?

[Paprika]

The story of Lot tells us that a couple of angels visited Lot and that a gay mob demanded they be brought out so they could have their way with them...

The question I have about this story and I can never get a straight answer is why would angels need to be protected anyway? Angels are spiritual beings and even if they somehow manifested in human bodies I still don't see what harm could possibly befall them.

So why did these angels need to be protected from the angry gay mob?

Seriously? This is a debate question? It's pretty obvious in the story the angels as visiting incognito, and that Lot thought they were normal humans.

[Willum]

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If he thought they were normal humans, (of divine beauty, suspiciously) why didn't he let them be; it all becomes a little paradoxical, unless, someone, including the author perhaps, knew the ending.

[Paprika]

[Replying to post 10 by Paprika]

If he thought they were normal humans, (of divine beauty, suspiciously) why didn't he let them be

Hospitality.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.� They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.� But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

[Justin108]

[Replying to post 10 by Paprika]

If he thought they were normal humans, (of divine beauty, suspiciously) why didn't he let them be

Hospitality.

How is telling a mob to rape your daughters hospitality? Would you be this hospitable if a guest stayed at your place? If a mob showed up, would you ask them to rather rape your children than your guests?

[Paprika]

[Replying to post 10 by Paprika]

If he thought they were normal humans, (of divine beauty, suspiciously) why didn't he let them be

Hospitality.

How is telling a mob to rape your daughters hospitality?

Defending one's guests is hospitality. Again, a little homework will dispel ignorance:

"In response to the mob, Lot acts like a virtuous host: he steps outside the house and places himself between the visitors and the mob (19:6). Lot's second desperate attempt to safeguard his strangers, offering his two virgin daughters to the Sodomites for sexual pleasure, is morally repugnant but further demonstrates Lot's resolve to fulfill the hospitality protocols at any cost (19:6-8). In fact, he begs the men to cease from their wickedness since the strangers "have come under the shelter of my roof"

[OnceConvinced]

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If inhabitants were exclusively homosexual a wise god would realize that it need not do anything to depopulate a city -- simply wait one generation.

But they might have turned straight people from other cities into homosexuals! You know what these gays are like. Always trying to trick people into becoming like them.

[OnceConvinced]

The story of Lot tells us that a couple of angels visited Lot and that a gay mob demanded they be brought out so they could have their way with them...

The question I have about this story and I can never get a straight answer is why would angels need to be protected anyway? Angels are spiritual beings and even if they somehow manifested in human bodies I still don't see what harm could possibly befall them.

So why did these angels need to be protected from the angry gay mob?

Seriously? This is a debate question? It's pretty obvious in the story the angels as visiting incognito, and that Lot thought they were normal humans.

Judging by Lot's lack of shock and amazement at what the angels did to the mob, I'd say there is reason to believe he DID know they were angels.

But looking at the story again I would say that it is highly possible he just saw them as humans. However the tale does not tell us that for certain.

[Paprika]

Judging by Lot's lack of shock and amazement at what the angels did to the mob

And how do you arrive at this reading? Is it going to be something along the lines of 'absence of evidence is the evidence of absence'?

[Justin108]

Defending one's guests is hospitality. Again, a little homework will dispel ignorance:

"In response to the mob, Lot acts like a virtuous host: he steps outside the house and places himself between the visitors and the mob (19:6). Lot's second desperate attempt to safeguard his strangers, offering his two virgin daughters to the Sodomites for sexual pleasure, is morally repugnant but further demonstrates Lot's resolve to fulfill the hospitality protocols at any cost (19:6-8). In fact, he begs the men to cease from their wickedness since the strangers "have come under the shelter of my roof"

Why does he value hospitality over his responsibility to protect his own family?

[Paprika]

Why does he value hospitality over his responsibility to protect his own family?

That is a great question. Remind me to ask that on the Last Day.