RE: A Literal Bible. Answering questions
May 8, 2022 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2022 at 11:50 am by Fake Messiah.)
Green Diogenes, you believe that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah really happened and that a woman was turned into a pillar of salt, but you don't believe it was for punishment.
So what do you think was the reason God turned her into the pillar of salt? Doesn't seem like he did it to award her.
Turning someone into the pillar of salt (killing) is a damning/ punishing gesture, so I don't see what else could it be nor do you even propose.
So what do you think was the reason God turned her into the pillar of salt? Doesn't seem like he did it to award her.
Turning someone into the pillar of salt (killing) is a damning/ punishing gesture, so I don't see what else could it be nor do you even propose.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
