We'll of course no one did...after the walls fell down. I have seen the ruins at the place where most historians believe this ancient city was. If no one lived there it sure was an awful waste of wall wouldn't you think?
Tetra46: For the rest of the points you mentioned...I can't even really...
I know that this is not the point of the question, but I did want to address this comment. Your statement was made hastily and is incorrect. Regardless of your personal views of the Bible, there have been many different evidences that have been found supporting a lot of the aspects of Judaism...
Job's sins did not cause this suffering. His friends (if you can call them that) tried to convince Job that his problems were results of his wrong doing, but they were wrong. Job makes this clear and later so does God when he rebukes Job's friends.
Job is one of my favorite books of the Bible. I read it once for encouragement-I know wierd, right? I did this because I had always heard the book of Job from a sugar-coated perspective. "Job lost all of his stuff, but then he got it back and he lived happily ever after...the end." But as I...
In the garden, Satan deceived Adam and Eve using the lie that if they disobeyed God they would be like Him. Even from the very beginning humans have reach for the understanding that they could not possess. I understand your position but disagree with your conclusion. Yes God did create the world...
I find it illogical that when faced with situations that have been bred from man's violence and evil, some choose to cast their blame on a being that they have no grasp of. Perhaps it is easier to blame the provider of all good things, then to face the reality of the fact that we ourselves are...