On other occasions, it’s good and proper. Jesus used Lot’s wife, who turned back when fleeing Sodom, as an example for disciples to be ready to abandon worldly goods when his kingdom comes: “Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it” (Luke 17:32–33). Paul used the destruction of many Israelites in the wilderness as another example: “Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were” (1 Corinthians 10:6–7). Bible characters can be behavioral
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