[Alex Murphy]

More recently, some readers bristled when I suggested that Lot suffered from sloth, and that his pitching of his tent toward Sodom was problematic and indicative of sinful attraction. The Bible says, “Flee fornication” (1 Cor 6:18) not “pitch your tent toward it.” Some would prefer to interpret the meaning of the texts differently or at least to place a different emphasis. But Lot, who I would argue was not even one of the patriarchs, certainly lived a life filled with ambiguities deserving of scrutiny, and in his story is an admonition for us.

"Suggested" my backside. It was in the title of your sermon, you biblically illiterate moron.

[chajin]

You mean a person cannot be righteous and slothful at the same time? Our righteousness is from Christ.

When Lot is “vexed,” it is very likely because he has begun to realize the (to use a Presidential phrase) deep doo-doo into which he has stepped by “pitching his tent toward” Sodom and Gomorrah, that he could have avoided by following God’s will rather than his own desires. Moreover, it only takes Peter six verses, from Matt. 16:17 to 16:23, to go from being blessed to being Satan, and it’s the same Peter—who was also “vexed” after his own denials of Christ.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I would suggest, Alex, that even if a person, such as yourself, has an uncommon wealth of Biblical knowledge and insight, a lack of common courtesy would make people strikingly less willing to listen to it.