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Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that Abraham desperately wanted to know whether the divine justice resembles the human notion of justice. Is God's justice, seen from the human viewpoint, arbitrary or capricious? It seems that the story was a parable in historical form, to tell us whether God punishes the righteous along with the wicked.

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Justine Wiegand

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No read your bible. Noah and the flood was hundreds of years earlier. It was Abraham who talks with God in Genesis 18. In Genesis 19 Lot is warned by two angels after Abraham intercedes for him with God.


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What stories found in the book of Genesis?

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