A viral post on the social media platform X tackled one of the most challenging passages of the entire Bible, the story of the widowed Lot spending an evening with his two unnamed daughters after the complete destruction of the sin-filled cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which turned his wife into salt after she defied the command to not turn around to look at God’s hand in dealing with the decimated towns.
For context, ann original post said that the common 12-step program, which leans heavily on Christian teachings, had saved their life and that they had returned to a rereading of the Holy Book. However, upon encountering the difficult passage exploring how Lot and his daughters spent an evening after two two cities were ravaged by God’s righteous hands and said it felt less biblical and more like Islam.
In a powerful quote-tweet, the self-described theologian with the handle ‘Faithfulness Okom’ neither ignored nor excused the act. Instead, in a powerful explanation, the response touched on how the story actually strengthened the overall message of the Bible. Touching on Islam, the user said that what was written was simply accepted without contemplation or growth. However, with Christianity, all of mankind’s shortcomings and sins were left as a benchmark for which to describe God’s repeated interventions and the eventual salvation that could only come from Jesus Christ.
“The shock you are feeling reading Genesis is completely normal, but it points to the most important rule of reading Scripture: the Bible is brutally descriptive, not automatically prescriptive,” began the rejoinder, again exclaiming that some passages describe what happened, both good and bad, without telling readers how to necessarily behave.
“When Genesis records Lot’s daughters sleeping with their father, it is not offering a moral blueprint or endorsing incest. It is recording the horrific reality of human depravity in a broken family fleeing a ruined city. The Bible refuses to sanitize our ancestors. It gives you humanity unvarnished, with all its rot, betrayal, and violence laid bare,” the post continued.
“The Bible is the story of God’s supreme condescension. God did not sit in heaven with folded arms, waiting for humanity to civilize itself before He stepped into our story. He entered the mud of history exactly where we were, working through deeply flawed people over centuries to pull us toward light,” he went on.
“When Jesus was questioned about Old Testament divorce laws, He exposed this exact dynamic. He told them that Moses permitted certain concessions because their hearts were hardened, but from the beginning it was not so,” it explained further.
“The Old Testament records God managing the baseline reality of a primitive, broken world, while progressively leading humanity toward the ultimate standard. That standard is Jesus Christ. In Scripture, Abraham, Moses, and David are not the moral finish line; they are broken men in need of mercy. Jesus alone is the full and spotless revelation of God’s character,” it importantly noted.
“Look at how He lived: He stepped into a first-century world where slavery, violence, and the subjugation of the weak were culturally acceptable, yet He participated in none of it. He owned no slaves, took no lives, exploited no one, and commanded His followers to love their enemies,” it said.
“This is the fundamental contrast with Islam. The Bible records the moral failures of its figures as an indictment of human nature, pointing forward to Christ who redeems us from them. Islam does the opposite: it takes a seventh-century tribal leader and declares his historical conduct; slave-owning, military conquest, taking captives of war, and marrying a child, to be the timeless, unalterable moral ideal for all mankind. What the Bible exposes as human sin needing redemption, the Quran canonizes as divine precedent,” it finished.