(September 24, 2021 at 8:42 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Sodom and Gomorrah were cities in the book of Genesis, which were destroyed by fire from the sky for their sins (everyone was horny and liked male angels).
Lot was a good man and was warned, but his wife looked back at the destruction and was turned into a pillar of salt.
As mentioned in Wikipedia, Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan valley near the Dead Sea has been proposed as one historical site for Sodom, if Sodom was in fact a real place that was destroyed.
Well, according to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-0...78-3#Sec68 , the best explanation for the archaeological investigation of Tall el-Hammam was that it was destroyed by a meteorite airburst, of larger magnitude than the Tunguska Event in 1908. This also seems to have spread salt from the Dead Sea over a large area of land, making it infertile for 100s of years.
Could it be that this ridiculous story was originally inspired by a real event?
Diligent research will irrefutably show that there are a number of other substantive Biblical findings akin to the above. A number will remain unconvinced by and unbelieving in the written Word, and by corroborating evidence, until their end or the end of the age.
The words of the Lord JESUS, the CHRIST:
"And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” - Mark 6:11
The Holy Bible identifies Sodom and Gomorrah and its previously surrounding cities as "examples" to the rest of the world!
"And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." - Jude 1:6-7 (2 Peter 2:6).
