Logline:
Man and his addiction ruin his life; he needs to change before life as he knows it is ruined,for himself and everyone around him.
Synopsis:
Abraham has a drinking problem his sin, he grabs the liquor and not his wife. When running from the city in the fire and brimstone storm hitting everyone.
We know this as after he has fermented wine later and that takes awhile to ferment so he was busy; not getting his wife out and not warning the neighbourhood, he was gathering up his alcohol to take, worldly things is what he focused on not people.
His choice destroyed his family life. It gets way more tragic later how he abuses the kids because he is drunk and is not in his right mind.He does not have the wife he needs because he focused on his drinking and not her it destroys his family and his city as he was supposed to be the influence the leader. He did not have his priorities straight.
Now most say it was the "others sins" but it was the religious ones sins, because the "others" are watching the religious, and how did Abraham deal with things, he tries to stop the "other" men and their homosexual behaviour , by devaluing his daughter throwing them up for use and abuse them sexually. Was this going to encourage the homosexuals to be like him? No.
They do not want to do that devalue the girls. What example was he? A bad one, he did not present the picture of what family life was he was a mess his whole family needed to be redeemed.
He should have been valuing his wife and daughter and presenting an example of what a life was to look like. He did not he just said here have at my daughter maybe that will distract you, was it an answer NO!It lead to the tragedy.
The whole question he argued with God about earlier was, can anyone be saved? Answer if there are even a few righteous ones to live and set an example to guide and direct others, but if not then if they lead them astray to ruin then all is lost. Theme of the whole story.
They seen he did not have his priorities right.
When he should have been listening to God, to guide him to do the right thing.
But did he? No, he did not take the warning the storm is coming serious, he did not let go of his sins, he did not focus on his family, being a leader, and example to others,he did not grab his wife , grab the kids, get the neighbours warn them, get them to safety in time.
NO! He did not.
What did he do, grabbed wine and liquor tried to take his sin with him, he focused on his sin and not the others not his family kids or wife, just his sins and clinging to them.
As a result the wife was lost , the kids suffered abuse, with him intoxicated trying to escape reality rather than dealing with life or his situation and circumstances, he tried to escape it using the wrong thing drugs and wine.
His wife, kids and neighbours were lost because of this sin.
Moral of the story, men need to face life, focus on family be a leader be an example to others. Let go of their sins before it destroys themselves or others all around them. The micro and the macrocosm of life.
So theme of the story, clinging to sins destroys yourself and your family and everyone else around you. They won't listen, and they won't respect you if you can not respect yourself and let go of your sins and focus on the right things.
As Jesus would say later: "Remove the plank from your own eye before trying to point out others sins!"
See the universal themes? STORY OF LIFE!
We all need God to redeem us as the need for mercy and grace due to each human having sin. Not one is without it. That is why these stories resonate with everyone all over the globe.
The whole world needs stories like these because as humans we need to see that even in these peoples lives God never gave up on them, He was going to save them and redeem them in the end. We all need that to know there is HOPE in the end!
That is why writing the story of redemption , that out of the worst tragic mess there is still hope in the end and it is never to late to change or be redeemed.
As in the story above eventually Abraham gave up the drink and redeemed his life got back on track but it took God playing the antagonist in his life to say this drinking and mess you got yourself in has to stop what do I have to do to interrupt you and change life until you suffer the consequence and pain of not changing becomes more pain than the pain of changing will be?
