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Lot was called *righteous*. II Peter 2:7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men. Help me here. I'm drawing a blank on the record righteous deeds performed by Lot in Genesis.

Well, the most fellowship-oriented thing Lot did was to agree to drop out of close fellowship w/his uncle Abram. Lot's herdsmen & Abram's were quarreling in Gen. 13. So, certainly he was flexible/teachable to accepting Abram's advice that their collective herdsmen no longer quarrel.

But other than that, you ask an appropriate question. And it's one that LDS should take note of. 2 Peter 2:7-8 make it quite clear that Lot's righteousness was inward: God noted that when Lot lived first near Sodom & then in Sodom, he was oppressed & distressed & tormented by the unrighteous deeds he saw around him.

Lot's righteousness wasn't in a laundry list of outward righteous deeds that would build up his own glory; rather, it was in inwardly reacting to unrighteousness--the same kind of righteous abhorrence that God has over man's unrighteous deeds.

When Lot believed God that Sodom was about to be destroyed and he took his family out, he ‘believed God and it was counted for him righteousness’ in the same fashion God applied His righteousness to Abraham, retroactively from the event of the cross to redeem the ‘chit’ He issued to Abraham, and Lot, and David, and ... well, you get the picture, but sadly the Mormons don’t.

Lot's righteousness wasn't in a laundry list of outward righteous deeds that would build up his own glory; rather, it was in inwardly reacting to unrighteousness--the same kind of righteous abhorrence that God has over man's unrighteous deeds.

The truth is, you just don't know for it is not listed in the scriptures, assumptions are a bad thing when your salvation may be on the line.

That said, believe as you wish, I am not trying to convert you, just defend my religion from what I see as scurrilous slander.

May God bless you both with the closeness you apparently crave, may his spirit distill upon you as the dews upon the grasses.