(February 3, 2017 at 10:50 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(February 3, 2017 at 3:59 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Don't forget that salt is used to preserve food and was used in rituals as a purification item. So when Lot's wife was turned into salt it signifies that she was free of sin and was spared participation in the subsequent sinful acts committed by Lot and her daughters.
They were told by God not to look back, and she looked back. I'm pretty sure it wasn't because God was trying to spare her from sin.
Here's a thing. The human body contains many salts, however presumably the bible passage here is referring to table salt, sodium chloride. If Lot's wife was reduced to salt, in the sense that her salt content was extracted Star Trek style, what would be left is enough salt to make a cube almost five centimetres per side - about seven tablespoons. Hardly a pillar.
Maybe, instead of her natural salt content being extracted, her bodymass was literally converted into sodium chloride? Well, even if that were possible - this is a vengeful god, after all - the energy released in the process would be ridiculous. I'm not a physicist, but even I have a healthy respect for e=mc²; we're talking Hiroshima times about a million here. How did our 'heroes' survive the blast, and how come the bible isn't telling that story? That would kick arse!
Oh wait - it's going to be midichlorians again, isn't it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
