Desert Snake
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Sodom and Gommorah were cosmically zapped by the most High, do you think that this was deserving, or is this a matter of of an immoral deity?
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Did Sodom and Gommorah deserve to get zapped?
- Thread starter Desert Snake
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Tumah
Veteran Member
Because monkeys aren't commanded to refrain from it...?
Why not?
Tumah
Veteran Member
Why yes?
Were S&G?
In a pre-Abrahamic world who would have any authority or credibility speaking for The God of Abraham?
Tom
Tumah
Veteran Member
According to the Jewish interpretation of events, 6 of the 7 Noahide Laws were already given to Adam and passed down until Noah who then passed all of them to his children, etc (Shem and Ever were still around at this point, I believe). So humanity as a whole had already received that commandment, just as the generation of the Flood had already received them.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
No. Any person, deity included, who murders others regardless the intent is just wrong, in my opinion. I had a whole opinion about this in a Capitol Punishment thread couple months ago. It's just. Wrong.
So.....did God smite them all just because of rampant sex?
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
Tommy Chong? Seth Rogan?
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
God should zap the Bible Belt for it's sinful divorce rate. Isn't divorce a sin just like homosexuality?
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The data showed that the highest divorce rates were found in the Bible Belt. "Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma round out the Top Five in frequency of divorce...the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average" of 4.2/1000 people.
- 11 southern states (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, MS, NC, NM, OK, SC and TX averaged 5.1/1000 people. (LA data is not available; TX data is for 1997).
- Nine states in the Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT) averaged only 3.5/1000 people.
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The data showed that the highest divorce rates were found in the Bible Belt. "Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma round out the Top Five in frequency of divorce...the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average" of 4.2/1000 people.
- 11 southern states (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, MS, NC, NM, OK, SC and TX averaged 5.1/1000 people. (LA data is not available; TX data is for 1997).
- Nine states in the Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT) averaged only 3.5/1000 people.
Unification
Well-Known Member
I don't think that the story is literal or historical.
I think that they represent two lower nature's or characteristics within a human being that were destroyed and overcome by a "cosmic" energy within.
The story of Sodom and gammorah is just one of many tales in the bible which showcase a petulant, angry, hateful, and genocidal god. Such atrocities and genocides are why I stopped being jewish and rejected ALL Abrahamic faiths. They are all tainted by evil imho. And that is something I will not tolerate. No offence meant but that is my honest view.
roger1440
I do stuff
How did homosexuality get in the picture?
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
Why take these scriptures literally? Look at all the carnage in the OT and compare it with a dearth of such carnage in the NT. God didn't change. Man's view of God did. That view is still changing by many of us who are not into 'an eye for an eye' theology.
roger1440
I do stuff
This may be news to you, it's a Hebrew word not English. The word means "to burn"
http://studybible.info/strongs/H5467