Of course I don't know God. Neither do you! You don't know god any more than you know Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins. How can you know a fictional character? But going by what the bible says he's a misogynist (the religions of the world have hurt women more than anything else in the history of man), a homophobe (destroyed a city because of gay sex) and an asshole (he flooded the planet and killed 99% of the worlds population including animals and babies because they were apparently bad too. Didn't realize babies could be evil)
As for Tall el Hammam, it fails. Even a biblical believer says that it fails on two accounts:
Geography Fail: Bill Schlegel, professor in Israel for 25 years and author of the Satellite Bible Atlas, explains why the biblical text does not fit the geography of Tall el-Hammam.
Chronology Fail: Eugene Merrill, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and author of Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel, shows in a recent Artifax article that for Tall el-Hammam to be Sodom one must deny all of the biblical dates before the time of the judges.
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...el-hammam/
There's a starting point for you.
As for Tall el Hammam, it fails. Even a biblical believer says that it fails on two accounts:
Geography Fail: Bill Schlegel, professor in Israel for 25 years and author of the Satellite Bible Atlas, explains why the biblical text does not fit the geography of Tall el-Hammam.
Chronology Fail: Eugene Merrill, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and author of Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel, shows in a recent Artifax article that for Tall el-Hammam to be Sodom one must deny all of the biblical dates before the time of the judges.
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...el-hammam/
There's a starting point for you.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
