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Maybe, I am not the person to answer your questions. Maybe, that is the best you are going to get out of a "written" forum. Maybe, your goal should not be about getting answers from a particular person but instead traveling the world and understanding how the world works.
To answer your questions:This may seem like a silly question, but is there such a thing as a 'real' time existence or reality for Hashem or even for humans? Or is reality like those science fiction movies or tv shows where reality is still occurring somewhere or some place on a different time phase and in Hashem's mind? Or is there a 'real' time occurrence for human beings? Or is it still always occurring somewhere, some place?
No, what I am saying is the the society they created opened the door to the possibility of their society being completely destroyed. Hashem created the possibiliy that their society could exist and not be destroyed, i.e. by way of the 7 mitzvoth, and Hashem also created the possibility that the society they created could be destroyed, if they built a destructive corrupt society from top to the bottom. The conversation between Hashem and Avraham was on this parciular of what would be necessary for the event to be avoided. i.e. at least 10 people who were keeping the 7 mitzvoth and weren't corrupt. Because that was not found, the tipped the balence towards the other direction. Meaning that if 9 people keeping the 7 mitzvoth were there they would need to get out of town and distance themselves. Also, the consideration based on Lot's behavior is that even someone keeping the 7 mitzvoth in Sodom and Amorah were easily corrupted by the local influence.So, from what you said, it sounds like you're saying that Hashem burned the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot's daughters' fiancés and the cities about them to a crisp and turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt because he knew he was already going to do, therefore, he had to do it anyway?
I would not use the words "he had foreseen himself doing" and the other statement "he was just making sure he was being consistent with himself." I would write it like so:Same way with the children and the plagues of Egypt, and all the other fun things that Hashem did in the Hebrew text? (I almost forgot about swallowing up all those people with earthquakes and the ground splitting wide open.) Therefore, in other words, Hashem never was reacting to anything, but he was just doing what he knew he had foreseen himself doing (or perhaps what he already had done in some reality), and therefore, he was just making sure he was being consistent with himself? Did I get that right?
No, that is not what I wrote.
If you mean that you want the actual "Hebrew texts" or a list of Hebrew texts where it is described, then here is a list that may meet both of what I I think you might be asking for. Again, I can't voach for how of the below would look like in an English translation and especially a Christian one. It is also not a full list, mainly what I have time to provide at the moment.
The following may interest you.
Um, James... Webb...Space...Telescope.
Uh, gee, @Ehav4Ever, I've seen my share of Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Again, if you study astro-biology there are very good reasons that a universe may appear unpopulated to a species that has gone no further than its own moon.
Thanks. That's as clear as mud.
I'll take a look at it.The following may interest you.
Ep. 641: Are Planets Alive? - Astronomy Cast
The Earth is teeming with life, both in the upper atmosphere to kilometers underground. There's no question that our planet has life. But is our planet itself alive? This is a question posed back in the 1970s as the Gaia hypothesis, and it got its share of criticism. Some new ideas have been...www.astronomycast.com
You might be right. However, forums are still enjoyable places to have conversations.
I see. So, it sounds like you don't believe that all this may be happening somewhere, sometime elsewhere in a different time phase. Or could happen again somewhere or sometime elsewhere in a different time phase. Good.
Well, that's still kind of strange where there would be 1000s and 1000s of people who were extremely corrupt and if only 10 people in those same cities kept the 7 mitzvoth, then those same cities would not have been destroyed. Hmmm.
Just because Lot's wife looked back at the city and the son-in-laws thought that the cities were going to be destroyed was a joke? Well, I guess I'm not really seeing how these individuals were as bad as the rest of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them... Least we forget about the children and the babies of those cities. But I guess that's just me.
Oh, I see. So, I guess Hashem deemed everyone corrupt enough to die because they wouldn't leave the city. However, since this is not a debate, I'm not going to mention Lot's sleazy daughters who took advantage of their father's drunken state.
Or perhaps Hashem didn't see that one coming.
TMJs seem very philosophical.
No, the James... Webb...Space...Telescope has not proven that there are no inhabited planets in the universe. The JWST doesn't have the ability to determine if any form of life is present on planets outside of our solar system or beyond. Besides, the question that is the challenge with Astro-biology is the question of "what is life?"Um, James... Webb...Space...Telescope.
Uh, gee, @Ehav4Ever, I've seen my share of Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
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Of course, we are supposed to be.TMJs seem very philosophical.
That is because you used the word "bad." The reality is that if even a person keeping the mitzvoth who associates themselves closely with dangerous people can go down with them if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even most legal systems have people who are charged for associating closely with criminals and such. Even a person who doesn't do the crime but provided assistance to the person doing the crime can face charges.
No. By them not leaving the city they put themselves in danger. No different than how there were people who were warned before hand to not associate with bad or sketchy situations, they ignore the warnings and do it anyway. Then when things fall apart it affects them also.Oh, I see. So, I guess Hashem deemed everyone corrupt enough to die because they wouldn't leave the city. However, since this is not a debate, I'm not going to mention Lot's sleazy daughters who took advantage of their father's drunken state.
If you look in my comment, I noted that your request not clear to me. That is why I provided you with the Hebrew and in English on the side the sources of what the Hebrew is describing. Also, the slides I provided the following lists were on the left side.Thanks. That's as clear as mud.
Yeah, I don't personally see any evidence of what you described. If someone could show me something like that then I could reconsider.