How Could the Bible call Lot a Righteous Man?
We have already shown from the Scriptures that Lot was a man who was righteous by faith. If you want to review that, you can read it in the 2nd letter of St. Peter to the Church, chapter 2 and verses 6 thru 8. By Orthodox New Testament theology we would say that Lot was justified, though he was not sanctified. We have given these issues a thorough run down before and we will doubtless do so again in the future. In order to move along with this story, I am not going to do so now, except to say that sanctification is one in the same, for simplicities sake, with faithful Christian living. If he was in todays setting, then we would say that Lot was a Christian but he wasn’t living a faithful life. This does not mean, however, that Lot was doing nothing at all right. In fact he was, according to the 2nd Peter passage. It speaks of “that righteous man who vexed his righteous soul from day to day.” If the truth of the matter could be adequately explored and understood, Lot was probably about
