Growing In Grace

We've all heard of cases where a thief is injured in the process of their thieving and then they turn around and sue the person they are stealing from. One of many examples can be found here . While we are familiar with the ridiculous idea that thieves would sue their victims, I have not yet found an example of a thief winning their lawsuit. Perhaps some have, but it seems that would be the rare exception. This idea of stealing from someone and then turning on them however is far more common in the world of ideas. In particular people endlessly purloin their favorite bits of the Christian worldview only to turn and pounce on the person they just plundered. A recent example can be seen in Anne Hathaway's speech when receiving the Equity Award from the Human Rights Campaign. The especially important part of the video is between 2:59-5:15 which has been edited down and is floating through the Twitterverse. A whole series of posts could be written to interact with the ideas An...

In the last post on Genesis 20 I made a passing comment regarding the horrible sins of Lot's daughters. After the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Lot was afraid to live in Zoar and so he took his daughters up to live in a cave. Doubtless he was mourning the death of his wife and the loss of his home and in so doing he completely failed to consider his daughters and their future. The end of Genesis 19 details how Lot's daughters respond to Lot's selfishness with a selfishness of their own. Just as Lot only thought of himself in hiding in the cave, his daughters think only of their future and so they get their father drunk in order to become impregnated by him. They did their job well because it says Lot was so drunk that "He did not know when she lay down or when she arose" (Gen. 19:33, 35). In the last post I labeled this the "unspeakable foolishness" of Lot's daughters, but it is also rightly described as a ruthless selfishness. Thinking only ...