Reading about Sodom and Gomorrah
We all know too much salt is very, very bad for people and there are also high concentrations of other minerals and ALL these towns were so similar, according to historical documents. You would think there would be factions in the towns that opposed things but none did that's why God had that talk with Abraham and said everyone is evil. EVERYONE! Sounds like all of them were suffering from mental problems of some kind so the area in which they live would come into question because they would all be drinking and eating the same things.
It almost sounds like the script of a horror movie, like, The Hills Have Eyes. These people could have been right out of a horror movie! Ghoulish and creepy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_salt
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I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi
Small doses are fine but everyday being born into that environment and having the high minerals everyday like that...might not be so healthy as a once in a while exposure.
And when you look at where they think these cities were, no one lives there and it's hard to imagine these places supporting any kind of populous. They just look uninhabitable.
However, before they were destroyed, they were quite successful due to rivers, streams and engineering. So people lived in them. It's strange no one lives there now.
Is this story of locking people in cages from the 18th century BCE? The 13th BCE of Moses? I doubt it.
It's hardly a candy cane forest :s
Sources say these cities were by the Dead Sea and they are mentioned several times historically. So they could have very well existed. What they were like, what happened to them and why is all very mysterious.
I am pretty sure Zoar is still there?
Here's a little something about how such places could have existed during the Bronze age when the climate was more hospitable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cu ... h_01.shtml
He's proposing real towns that were buried in an earthquake and landslide, not a magical fire storm. And he's welcome to start digging and establish if they existed and what happened. Good luck. It wouldn't be the first effort to look under the Dead Sea.
And ancient sources likely don't say that. The Ebla tablets, from an ancient town in northern Syria, have not been fully translated into English and a number of crazy theories have been shot down about them. The Italian in charge of the translation was removed ~30 years ago and he has been criticized for sloppy work and guesses. That doesn't stop Christian apologists from quoting his claims. Josephus, a 1st century jewish guy, mentions outline of the cities of the plain but he's a bible believing jew writing almost 2,000 years later. He sees what he wants in the hills.
These clay tablets from northern Syria (Ugarit, Ebla and Mari) and Mesopotamia do contain some similar stories and traditions to those found in the bible. But it's not really helping the bible. It's showing that a younger Israelite culture imitated its older neighbors and borrowed their mythic concepts to express their own religion.
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