I wound up with Sodom and Gomorrah

I finished this today. It's funny how naming something can sometimes be the hardest part. My other working titles were "One Righteous for the Unrighteous" and "The Scales of the Cross." I couldn't decide on which to go with, and Lauren suggested, "How about 'Sodom and Gomorrah'?" Perfect.


I painted this for the Paradigm Shift, the college group at church. We've been going through various aspects of prayer and this particular topic looked at Abraham speaking with boldness and with holy reverence to God over the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In Genesis 18 Abraham basically bartered God down to spare the city, but never asked Him to spare it for the sake of one righteous person because he recognized God's heart and realized that there were none in the city. (Wow, that's a run-on.) The idea was then raised - would God spare the many unrighteous for the sake of the one righteous? The answer is found in the cross.