Franics Collins

[athrock]

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.

Cecelia, you poor woman. 

You have no idea what I know and don't know. You can assert all you want, but you're guessing - hoping really - that your words are true. They are not. Except your admission that you don't know God, of course. But that's YOUR choice.

Now, be honest...had you ever even heard of Tell el Hammam before you did a quick Google search frantically looking for something with which to counter my post?  

Unless you are by chance an archaeology major yourself, I would bet not. But hey, I could be wrong...you could be very current on the latest from the digs in Israel for all I know.

I won't claim to know more about you than you seem to know about me.