God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

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Archaeological excavations have revealed that the city (SODOM) lay close to the Dead Sea on the present-day Israeli-Jordanian border. According to scientists, the area is covered in large deposits of sulphur. For this reason, no life in the form of animals or plants is to be found there and the region stands as a symbol of destruction.
Sulphur is an element which appears as a result of volcanic eruptions. Indeed, there is clear evidence in the Qur'an that the method of destruction was earthquake and volcanic eruptions. The German archaeologist Werner Keller says this about the region:

Together with the base of this mighty fissure, which runs precisely through this area, the Vale of Siddim, including Sodom and Gomorrah, plunged one day into the abyss. Their destruction came about through a great earthquake which was probably accompanied by explosions, lightning, issue of natural gas and general conflagration… The subsidence released volcanic forces that had been lying dormant deep down along the whole length of the fracture. In the upper valley of the Jordan near Bashan there are still towering craters of extinct volcanoes; great stretches of lava and deep layers of basalt have been deposited on the limestone surface.229

These layers of lava and basalt are the most important evidence showing that a volcanic eruption and earthquake once took place there. In any event Lake Lut, otherwise known as the Dead Sea, lies directly above a seismically active region-in other words, an earthquake belt:

The base of the dead sea is located with a tectonic rooted downfall. This valley is located in a tension stretching between the Taberiye Lake in the north, and mid of Arabah Valley in the south.230

The technical aspect of the disaster suffered by the people of Lut has been revealed in studies carried out by geologists. These have shown that the earthquake which wiped out the people of Lut came about as the result of a very long fault line. The Jordan River drops a total of 180 metres during its 190 km course. This, and the fact that the Dead Sea is 400 metres below sea level, combined to prove that that there once took place a major geological event in and around this area.

This interesting structure of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea comprise only part of the crack or fissure which passes through this region. It begins at the slopes of the Toros Mountains and runs southward past the southern shores of the Dead Sea, through the Arabian Desert, reaching the Gulf of Aqaba, from where it crosses the Red Sea before coming to an end in Africa. There is major volcanic activity in those areas through which the line passes. In fact, this occurs to such an extent that black basalt and lava can be found in the Mountains of Galilee in Israel, in part of the high plateaus in Jordan, the Gulf of Aqaba and other areas.

All these remains and geographical features show that there was a major geological event at the Dead Sea.

The December 1957 edition of National Geographic magazine contained these statements on the subject:

The mount of Sodom, a barren wasteland, rises sharply above the dead sea. No one has ever found the destroyed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but scholars believe that they stood in the Vale of Siddim across from these cliffs. Possibly flood waters of the Dead Sea engulfed them following an earthquake.231

One of the pieces of information regarding this destroyed city is-as revealed in Surat al-Hijr 76-that these cities are still on the main line. Geographers have identified this region as being on a line to the south-east of the Dead Sea, extending from the Arabian peninsula to Syria and Egypt.

We turned the place completely upside down and rained down on them stones of hard-baked clay. There are certainly Signs in that for the discerning. They were beside a road which still exists. There is certainly a Sign in that for the believers. (Qur'an, 15:74-77)

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Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. —Jude 1:7

"Likewise as it was in the days of Lot—they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed." Luke 17-28

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 2Peter 2:6

Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of the heavens. Genesis 19:24

Jude 1:7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

Genesis 19:25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.

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It would be far more reasonable to assume this narrative influenced the people's superstitions not by making them believe their god was a volcano, rather they attributed volcanic activity, earthquakes and many other things to the wrath of a God. None of this is supportive of the Idea that YHWH was a volcano.

Then again, nobody has actually found these cities, are there any extra-biblical sources for their existence? It is entirely likely that while some people may have found an area of volcanic activity where an earthquake once happened saying that two cities from a religious text once existed here and since we can't find them they must have fell down an abyss is bit ridiculous. Just how well are their locations described in the bible?

I am recent Christian apostate who left Christianity due to a sinking feeling about a volcano.

And now you're looking for evidence to demonstrate a "sinking feeling"? Nothing necessarily wrong with that, just be aware of the biases you can fall prey to with this approach, especially when your feeling lead you to make a substantial world change.

I have a hunch the entire God-feeling can be put down to volcanoes and, being a free thinking truth seeker, I want to see if the evidence points to this.

You could falsify this rather easily if you're interested, for instance if you find a culture with a God who is clearly not a volcano or multiple gods who are clearly representative of something else. I can name about a dozen from the Maori culture; Ranginui was the "sky father", Tāne-mahuta was the "god of the forests and birds", Tangaroa was the "god of the sea", Rongo the "God of peace and agriculture", Haumia-tiketike the "God of wild foods", Rehua the Star and guidance, Punga the "god of ugly creatures" Etc...

Compared to the very few which could be in any way attributed to a volcano; Papatūānuku the "Earth mother", Ruaumoko the "source of earthquakes" and Tāwhirimātea the "god of weather"

This soundly disproves the notion that the "entire God-feeling" can be put down to volcanoes. With evidence now presented in strict contradiction to this notion will you now, being a truth seeker, drop that proposition?