Sodom was an exceedingly wicked city, or so we're told in Genesis 13, but Sodom's wickedness is not as singular as perhaps we were told in our youth. The Sodomite's sins are pride, excess food, prosperous ease, overlooking the poor, arrogance, and engaging in abominable behavior. These things aren't outlined for us in Genesis but instead found in Ezekiel 16. Lot, Abraham's nephew, moved to Sodom and made a home there with his wife and two daughters, but God, having heard of the outcry against Sodom, came to examine the city and, if necessary, destroy it. At this point in the story, Abraham is 99 years old. It is about a year before the birth of the promised son, Isaac. The Lord, probably not God the Father but perhaps an incarnation of Jesus the Son, shows up to visit Abraham along with two angels. "The LORD said, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?" Then he declared to Abraham, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me." Undoubtedly concerned about Lot, Abraham asks, "What if fifty righteous are found there? Will you sweep away the place and not spare the fifty? Far be it from you to put the righteous to death with the wicked so that they fare as the wicked! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" His outcry to God is one we may have echoed...