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NASB | Genesis 18:28 "Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?" And He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 18:28 "If five of the fifty righteous are lacking, will You destroy the entire city for lack of five?" And He said, "If I find [at least] forty-five [righteous people] there, I will not destroy it." |
Subject: Righteous, Unrighteous and Children? |
Bible Note: Dear Steve, Who is to say that God included the children in this 'count'? The rest of the chapter and the actual fall of Sodom and Gomorrah leads me to believe that only the men of the city were 'examined' here, and God destroyed the city for their outrageous sin! We do not know or cannot prove by the context of this verse that He did mean to include the children in this 'count', therefore any "presumption" that the children must have been 'unrighteous' because only 4 righteous people were found is totally baseless from what we read in Scripture. At this point, I believe that you are 'adding to' Scripture rather than 'taking' from it. If you can find any reference at all to children in any of these passages, then you just might be able to provide some sustenance to your wild assumption here. But if you cannot prove that the children were also included in this 'count', then I believe that you cannot come to the conclusion that you have without adding something to the text that was not there to begin with. I still do not have a satisfactory answer as to why you believe that children are being referred to in some way in these verses. --Nolan |