Why did God give the Israelites a Law that they could never obey fully?

[onlinebuddy]

Lot was just, a justified man, according to the scriptures in (2Pt 2:7). Look it up and it was not according to any request from Abraham.

You're right Red33, and I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing out this verse. If Peter says Lot was righteous, so be it.

Lot was a man of many mistakes (grave ones) before and after the destruction of Sodom. However, if he was considered righteous by Peter, it again brings to mind the great patience and mercy of God, whose intent is to save and not condemn.

Thanks once again.

 

[Red33]

You're right Red33, and I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing out this verse. If Peter says Lot was righteous, so be it.

Lot was a man of many mistakes (grave ones) before and after the destruction of Sodom. However, if he was considered righteous by Peter, it again brings to mind the great patience and mercy of God, whose intent is to save and not condemn.

Thanks once again.

With that being true concerning, Lot a just (righteous) man, how does that effect your understanding of what happened to Sodom and Abraham's plea to God to spare it? Was it a righteous act on Lot's part, before the destruction, when he offered up his virgin daughters to the men of the city to do with them as it seemed good, and was it a righteous act , after the destruction, to allow his daughters to get him drunk so that they could preserve seed with their own father on two separate occasions?

Romans 3 and (Gal 3) teaches us the purpose for which the law was given to both the Jews and its relationship to the Gentiles.

Gal 3:19-26

19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

 

[RichardofTruth]

Firstly, God did not give the Israelites a heart that would understand and obey, when they were in the desert, according to the following verse
Duet 29:4 “Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see,
nor ears to hear.

I just found out the answer to this question after fifty years!

God did it so they would realize they are all weak without him!

I have learned after 49.9 years that when I try an be good it doesnt ever work. you are younger and you can try for 30 more years, but you will eventually realize you cant be good..

So the answer is, Give you heart, your sould your life your mind to Jesus every minute, and HE will come in and make you good and you wont hurt him and you wont break a single commandment as long as you go to JEsus and love him every day...

thats the answer, its the way of life, its a narrow way and a difficult way and few there be that find it.

Believe on the Lord Jesus christ, (the word of God) and you shall be saved, and thy house, believe Gods prophets and you shall prosepr!

 

[loveme1]

Deuteronomy 30

30 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

2 And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

3 That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

 

[onlinebuddy]

With that being true concerning, Lot a just (righteous) man, how does that effect your understanding of what happened to Sodom and Abraham's plea to God to spare it?

Sodom had to go because of sin.
Abraham's plea was for God to save Sodom if there were 10 righteous men. However there was only one- Lot.
Therefore, in response to Abraham's plea (Gen 19:29) God saved Lot.

Was it a righteous act on Lot's part, before the destruction, when he offered up his virgin daughters to the men of the city to do with them as it seemed good, and was it a righteous act , after the destruction, to allow his daughters to get him drunk so that they could preserve seed with their own father on two separate occasions?

Both acts were no way righteous. However, Lot's righteousness came not from his actions, or works. It must have come from his faith. He was justified by his faith, just as Abraham was, and just as we are today.