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SODOM DISCOVERED: Meet the archaeologist who discovered the notorious biblical city, the most dramatic find of the 21st century
All Israel ^ | 6/28/23 | Joel C. Rosenberg and Tal Heinrich

Posted on 06/29/2023 3:50:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Many people are familiar with the account in the biblical Book of Genesis about the two sin-filled cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their cataclysmic destruction.

Yet many in this modern, scientific age struggle — or outright refuse — to accept that the cities ever really existed, much less that God wiped them out with fire from heaven.

After all, to believe Genesis would be to accept that God is real, the Bible is true, and that God really does bring judgment against individuals, cities, and even whole nations if they stubbornly reject God and flagrantly disobey His commands.

In other words, if Sodom and Gomorrah really existed and really were destroyed by God raining down fire and brimstone from heaven — especially because the people proudly embraced homosexuality and utterly rejected God’s design of heterosexual marriage, among many other sins — then that would mean that God really has a set of rules for mankind to live by and that there are serious consequences for rejecting Him.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Judaism; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; bible; catastrophism; citiesoftheplain; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jimhoft; ntsa; rainbowruins; sodom; stevencollins; tallelhammam; tellelhammam; valleyofsiddim
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Everyone seems to forget there were five cities of which FOUR CITIES destroyed at that time. Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim. Zoar got a reprieve since Lot fled there for a short while, then away as the inhabitants were so vile.

In other non-biblical history there have been quite a few cities destroyed by natural causes. Herculanium, Pompeii, Saint-Pierre, Martinique. I have read the governor of Saint Pierre loved to parade crucified pigs through his streets before the Big Boom took him and the city out.


21 posted on 06/29/2023 4:49:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: SE Mom

I thought so, too!


22 posted on 06/29/2023 4:50:15 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: justme4now

BEAT me to it! By “that much”.


23 posted on 06/29/2023 4:50:42 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I thought Ron Wyatt did?


24 posted on 06/29/2023 4:53:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What was his evidence that he had found the right spot? Rainbow flags?


25 posted on 06/29/2023 4:54:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Big Red Badger

That recently imploded while full of tourists.


26 posted on 06/29/2023 4:55:59 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I take it they unearth a tourist shop that had coffee mugs emblazoned with the city’s name.


27 posted on 06/29/2023 4:58:57 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Verginius Rufus

There was no one thing. The very first indication that it might be the right location was the smell when they got down to a certain layer of soil. Read the book.


28 posted on 06/29/2023 5:21:59 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Genesis 13 mentions Zoar, and notes that the whole area was like the “garden of the LORD”. Apparently the Dead Sea wasn’t dead before the destruction.


29 posted on 06/29/2023 5:27:49 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Big Red Badger; Hebrews 11:6; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; Phinneous; golux; yelostar; SJackson; ...
Will they find Jonahs Great Fish?

I figure it's gone belly up by now, but come to think of it...

That great fish was a "dag gadol" [דג גדול], which = 50. And Jonah means "dove", as does Columbia, the female personification of America. 🤔

Now that's another thing, because if the word fish is spelled out big; i.e. by its letters (dalet דלת and gimel גימל), that's 434 + 83 = 517

Isn't it always something though because that detail was in the data about the missing David, his height being 517 cm.

What I left off of that post was the common observation that Michelangelo's David is a... "Gentile". As such, a Gentile David is spelled as the name sounds -- דייוויד -- DAY-vid, which = 50.

This is probably where I've already lost people because the info might seem completely unrelated to a fish but come on, the missing David is the one that got away, so it's really the simple meaning.

Of course that meant I had to ping the folks to this most dramatic find.

I hope I'm not irritating anyone. Yosef was the adder in the family, so I'm in good company. 🤓

30 posted on 06/29/2023 5:30:44 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: justme4now

👍

Good points!


31 posted on 06/29/2023 5:39:51 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So how did the sulfur balls end up near the Dead Sea?


32 posted on 06/29/2023 5:55:03 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: Ezekiel

If a Messianic Jew is a “completed Jew”, and the Mich’s DAY-vid is a Gentile Jew because he is uncircumcised, does that make him an “un-incompleted Jew”?

I’m sooooooooooo confused....


33 posted on 06/29/2023 5:56:06 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.” Psalm 12:8)
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To: roving

Never mind. I saw the answer


34 posted on 06/29/2023 6:00:14 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Butt humpers and fag churches worldwide will plan annual pilgrimages to their holy site

Pope Francis will provide the blessing


35 posted on 06/29/2023 6:08:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The historic account of the Bible is never in doubt. It is ALWAYS about faith. Was the event etc being described attributable to God or chance. People who haven’t figured that out yet are missing the PRIMARY theme of the Bible.


36 posted on 06/29/2023 6:12:58 PM PDT by kjam22
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Something has to go missing for it all to make sense! 😳


38 posted on 06/29/2023 6:35:30 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

I’ve Always been good with math
I rather enjoy it !
Thanks!


39 posted on 06/29/2023 7:07:32 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Of interest:

https://opentheword.org/2015/10/15/has-the-ancient-biblical-city-of-sodom-been-found/

https://opentheword.org/2020/08/25/archaeologist-find-evidence-that-sodom-and-gomorrah-were-destroyed-by-intense-fire/

https://earthsky.org/human-world/bible-story-of-sodom-meteor-strike/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3


40 posted on 06/29/2023 7:17:01 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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