Atheists- Sodom / Gomorrah was destroyed for being completely evil, but can you name the city that God spared?
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Why do people always assume that athiests are nonbelievers out of ignorance? A lot of us are learned enough about various religions to have the capacity to question the beliefs man has created for himself.
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Sodom, if it had ever existed, was situated somewhere deep underneath what is now known as the Dead Sea. So, if it is was a volcano that erupted and destroyed it, that nameless volcano is also buried in the same locale...   \nIn Genesis, God is claimed to have 'rained burning coals and embers from above' - namely the skies ! If so, it would more possibly have been a meteor, and not a volcano...\nBut, I would rather share the opinion of most historians - that the whole episode is a fabricated myth, to scare and frighten the poor 'believers' about the 'wrath of God' !
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Genesis 13:13\n\n13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.\n\nGenesis 19:4-13\n\n4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."\n\n 6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."\n\n 9 "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.\n\n 10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.\n\n 12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."\n\n\nBasically they were all homosexuals and God burned them to the ground.
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Someone give this bigot a brain-ectomy, please.  \n\n*sighs*  They're not even remotely evil and theres no solid evidence that the Jews had Christ killed (who was a Jew, btw).  Even if a group of Jews did, how do you hold the entire religion responsible?
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Israel was unfaithful to God and played the harlot with other gods (pagan) that God warned them against.  They worshipped those other gods and build altars to them on high hills even sacrificing their children to these pagan gods.  It was an abomination before God and He was angry with Israel.
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The Biblical record does not give any indication that a volcano erupted. It clearly says that "the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord OUT OF THE HEAVENS". Although not exactly the same but in similar fashion, the Lord sent fire down from heaven in 1 Kings chapter 18 and several more times in 2 kings the 1st chapter.
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Read the book of Revelations with a concordance. There's mentions of "the dragon of the East". And there's referrences of Assyrian armies attacking Israel. All in all, it's not a pretty picture for the future of our world.
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You're wrong, God(sp?) cursed Australopithicus' seed and he brought forth an abomination that was detestable in the eyes of the Lord (sp?) and so he called it Homo habilus as opposed to hetero-habilus.
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Read Numbers 16.  God opened the ground and swallowed Korah, his followers and their families.  He also sent fire from the sky to kill the rest of the 250.  You would think the rest of the Israelites learned their lesson...but they complained and whined the very next day and God sent a plague of death sweeping across the camps until Aaron atoned for their sins.
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There are lots of Jewish temples being redone.  In my town, there is one that was torn down and is being rebuilt into a multi-million dollar complex.  I am newly reborn and am just learning about the things of the Bibble, however, if you are referring to that.  Amen and Praise our Lord Jesus ;).
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Sodom and Gomorrah wasn't destroyed because of homosexuality.\n\nThe story of Sodom and Gomorrah was a warning against rape, inhospitality and xenophobia. The reason for Sodom's destruction is made clear in Ezekiel 16:48-50. According to Ezekiel, the sins of Sodom were pride, laziness, being inhospitable, neglecting the needs of the poor, greed, and idolatry (the worshiping of idols). Nothing about homosexuality is mentioned.\n\nAnd children were killed because the Bible god sometimes kills indiscriminately.  That's the OT god for you... wipe 'em all out now, apologize later.
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First you have the city of Sodom where God says he has condemned because the men there engage in a great deal of wickedness. So what where they doing? Here is what they said when Lot and his family arrived in the city.\n\n‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’’"“ (NIV)\n\nSoon after the city was destroyed.\n\nThis is from Jude\n\n“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.” (NIV)\n\nAnother verse from leveticus\n\n“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (18:22)\n\nNote that God describes it as DETESTABLE. This is not an opinion that changes over the years and God is all of a sudden pro gay sex.
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Not too hard to understand..\nThe two angels went into sodom to bring Lot and his family out so that God could destroy the city...\nGen 19:5 The men of the city wanted Lot to bring the 2 men out so that they could have homosexual sex with them.\nGen 19:9  They are saying that Lot came in to visit and live in Sodom and now he was trying to become a judge, or change the customs of the people there..  \nGen 19:11,12  The two angels (were in the form of men) and they pulled Lot back inside the house and made the people outside of the house blind.  V12 they are telling Lot that they are going to destroy the city and that he needs to get his family together and go with them..  \n\nLev 18:22  It is an abomination to God when men have homosexual or sodomite sexual relations..  Man was made for woman not man for man..  \nThis is pretty straightforward and I just preached on the whole theme two sundays ago.\n\nGen 13:13  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. \nTHIS throws a little light on Sodom, they were wicked people and their sin was so bad that their wickedness had come up to God, and he had to deal with it..  I also take this to mean that they had some understanding of what God's rules were and just didn't care..
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Apparently not. Sodom and Gomorrah were destoyed between verses 22 and 30.\n\nGenesis 19:21-22, 30\n21 He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. \n22 "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar. \n\n30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. \n\nI suppose it could be argued that Lot left Zoar from fear that it too would be destoyed, but there is no clear indication of this, and there are some major problems with this assumption.\n1) Lot was promised that Zoar would be spared.\n2) There is no clear indication WHAT Lot was afraid of (He could also have been afraid of the people of Zoar, or of any number of other things.)\n3) Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed WHILE Lot was in Zoar.\n4) The name chage to Zoar. Prior to this, the name of the town was Bela (destruction,) (Gen. 14:2,8), after this, it was called Zoar (little, of no importance).
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Many people were punished in the Bible, and for various reasons.\nIn the time of Noah, the entire world was destroyed for their wickedness, and only eight people were spared (Noah, his wife, and their three sons with their wives). After the flood, the lives of men were drastically shortened, so that men could devise less evil in a lifetime.\nThen, at the Tower of Babel, God punished men by breaking them up into family groups with different languages. Once again, so that less evil could be devised by man.\nAs it has been stated, the people of Sodom and Gommorah were punished (in the time of Lot and Abraham), for their sexual sin, for their bloodshed, and violence. Because of the prevalant sexual sins and deviations in Sodom and Gommorah, there must have been terrible VD. So would be safe to assume that God destroyed those cities to prevent the destruction (through rampant VD) of many more.\nLater, God punished the Egyptians for their cruelty to the Israelites, who had gone to Egypt for protection 400 years earlier.\nAfter that, God used the Israelites to destroy the peoples of Caanan, (who by this time had become extemely evil, violent, bloodthirsty, and sexually deviant). Once again, although it seems cruel to destroy a whole generation of people, I believe God was simply sparing the world from the destruction that these nations would have wrought on the earth had they been allowed to live. (Evidence for this can be seen in the few nations that WERE allowed to live, and the horrible things they did, and caused others to do.)\nThe judgement of God ALWAYS has a motivation of mercy!\nThis is seen most clearly in the Person of Jesus Christ, who, although He had committed NO SIN, was punished with sinners, taking the place of us who DESERVE punishment. Jesus was not forced to die, He CHOSE to die, in order that we may live! His death, terrible as it was, is also the most wonderful event in the history of the world. Because Jesus had committed no sin, death had no power over Him, and He rose from the grave!
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Mount Parin Church Of God.\n(i may of misspelled Parin)
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Modern day Israel and the surrounding area.\n\nThere are many scholarly debates on the specific locations of some long-lost cities referenced in the Jesus mythologies, such as Golgoth, but certain places, such as the city of Jerusalem, remain right where they've always been.