The other visitor, who was the LORD, stayed behind.If GodвЂ™s hand were to reach out and hit people, then it would look a lot like a meteor. Two of them went down to Sodom and Gomorrah, to observe first hand the wickedness in those cities. They came disguised as men, travelers along the road. Three angels visited Abraham, God's hand-picked founder of his chosen nation, Israel. Sodom and Gomorrah Story Summary.

The site was unearthed while workers were mining gravel and has since been excavated by a joint team from Trinity Southwest University and the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. An entire city and civilization was destroyed on the basis of religion and this is a shadow of the purging during NoahвЂ™s floodThe excavations in question took place at Tall el-Hammam, the largest archaeological site in the Jordan Valley. 24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven Genesis (Chapter 19, Verse 24). Volume 3 - The Guermantes Way Volume 4 - Sodom and Gomorrah.The bible tells of the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah by God for their evil deeds. By studying the effects of a meteor that devastated part of the Jordan Valley around 3,600 years ago, the authors suggest that it was this cosmic event that gave rise to the history of Sodom and Gomorrah.Volume 2 - Within A Budding Grove, also known as In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. This is the argument of an article published this week in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.

Archaeologist Christopher Moore, one of the studyвЂ™s authors, writes: вЂњThe air temperature rose rapidly above 3,600 degrees FahrenheitвЂ¦ Clothes and wood immediately burst into flames. John Sturrocks acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a.What happened there can be deduced from the material evidence. The description of their destruction in the Bible can be interpreted only as volcanic eruption.The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Sodom and Gomorrah were situated near the southern part of the Dead Sea basin or in the Jordan River valley. Published: (1977) Shadow of Sodom: facing the facts of homosexualityThe biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is interpeted as a reflection of a real natural disaster.

The asteroid would have impacted the area or detonated in midair (an explosion). Instead, archaeologists argue, the area was washed away by a small asteroid, similar in size to the one that devastated Tunguska, Russia in 1908. вЂњThe giant space rock that ended вЂBiblical SodomвЂ™The extreme temperatures that melted pottery, clay bricks and metal could not have been caused by war or even a volcano. Almost immediately, the entire city caught fire вЂ¦ A few seconds later, a massive shock wave crashed into the city вЂ¦ Deadly winds hit the city, demolishing all the buildings вЂ¦ None of the 8,000 people or animals inside the city they survived: their bodies were smashed and their bones exploded into small fragments.

Upon arrival, the angels planned to spend the night in the town square, but Lot, AbrahamвЂ™s nephew, takes an interest in them and welcomes them into his home as guests.Curious townspeople crowd around LotвЂ™s gate and demand that he hand over the angels in disguise so they can вЂњmeetвЂќ (ie, rape) them. According to the Bible, вЂњthe cry against them before the Lord has become so greatвЂќ that God sent two angels to destroy them. The cities had a reputation for evil. As most Sunday school goers know, the book of Genesis describes the destruction of two legendary urban settlements in the Dead Sea region, Sodom and Gomorrah. The scientific evidence for the destruction of the area by an asteroid impact or airborne explosion is conclusive.Archaeologists continue to suggest that the memory of the devastation of the asteroid is preserved in the pages of the most famous book in history: the Bible. These could only have been caused by the extreme pressure and heat of an alien fireball.

Centuries of interpretation have understood that history is a narrative about GodвЂ™s condemnation of homosexuality.Although itвЂ™s unclear why the angels needed to visit the city in person to perform a surgical celestial attack, fire from heaven sounds like a laymanвЂ™s description of a meteor. Sodom and Gomorroah are destroyed. The next morning, at the instruction of the angels, Lot and his extended family quickly retreat and вЂњbrimstone and fireвЂќ rained down on the two cities.

There is no judgment in history on LotвЂ™s proposal to pimp his children. He feels empowered to do this because they are his daughters and therefore, in the old view, his property. This was a serious social crime.LotвЂ™s response to his behavior is to offer his two virgin daughters to the mob to abuse. In Genesis, LotвЂ™s concern is that the locals are treating two strangers badly By threatening angels, they are breaking the cultural norms that governed hospitality and the treatment of outsiders. The exchange between Lot and the inhabitants is darker than the traditional reading admits. God may be supernatural, but that doesnвЂ™t mean (at least for Christians) that God must act outside of nature.The real problem with traditional readings of the Sodom and Gomorrah story is that it misses the point of the whole story and obscures the variety of forms of sexual violence that make cameos in the tale.

Violence against women is also not enshrined in the interpretive tradition as a crime against God. Even without knowing that she is dead, there is no recognition of her trauma.Atlantis, which no serious historian believes existed, is driving people crazy on TwitterThe people of the city are eventually punished, but the Levite and Lot are not condemned for their cowardly willingness to sacrifice vulnerable women to protect themselves. In the morning, the Levite, her slave owner, finds her lying outside and cruelly tells her to get up so they can leave. She is gang-raped throughout the night and finds her way back to her lodgings only to die on the doorstep. In the end, only the concubine is shoved out the door into the angry crowd. The locals threaten to rape the man and his host offers his virgin daughter and the LeviteвЂ™s concubine to the mob.

Register now!Beast Daily Membership: Beast Inside delves into the stories that matter to you. вЂњIf the Bible writers had thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were ravaged by space debris rather than divine punishment, history it would not be in the Bible It is precisely because of the ethically problematic reading of divine judgment that it is in the text to begin with.Get our top news delivered to your inbox every day. Jon Marks, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, told The Daily Beast that вЂњArcheology ItвЂ™s great, but trying to link possibly real random events to ancient stories is a pretty silly waste of mental energy. вЂњScientific explanations for the destruction of the city certainly do not solve the ethical problems surrounding sexual violence in the Bible, but we might wonder if they are necessary at all.

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