God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

The "mission statement" from Trinity Southwest's own web site.

The mission of Trinity Southwest University is to provide quality higher education to adult learners, teaching them (through a variety of biblically based disciplines) to uphold the divine authority of the Bible as God’s inspired representation of reality to humankind, and equipping them to apply its eternal truths to all phases of life.

They are a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalist morons and Collins works there. He's been pushing this Sodom and Gomorrah horseshit for a generation.

The simple answer to this tall tale is etiology, defined as:

An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.

In short, someone spotted a ruined city in their midst and made up a story about how it got that way.



It's also about 620 miles from Santorini to the coast of the Levant plus however far inland you want to go to reach "Sodom and Gomorrah." That's really pushing it.

If you are discerning enough you can take your evidence from anyone, even a Christian. Like I said, most evidence will be derived from Christian research. Beggers cannot be choosers. Look at all of it and make your evaluation. Be prejudiced and expect to find it impossible to find information, which is maybe the prefered solution for some. Black and white judgements are a luxury this subject cannot aford due to the lack of available information. There is evidence of towns being buried under volcanic ash. I'll look it up soon.

Have you not been reading all my posts? Had you done, you would have known the proposed sites for S&G are in the Jordan Rift Valley, which runs along a major plate rift which contains thirty active volcanoes. There is a very good chance the Santorini eruption was not the only eruption but one of many triggered by a major earthquake. This fits in very well with the Bible quote I found that suggested volcanoes were erupting one after the next....

'He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.' Deuteronomy 33:2

I don't have all the answers but there is something in all this.