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The nickname is so suitable. Somewhere in the middle east - metaphotically. It never actually existed.

2006-12-02 09:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Skeptical View

Some modern biblical scholars argue that a sin was attached to the story of Sodom to justify the destruction of the cities, which may be based on an authentic account of a natural cataclysm, possibly an earthquake in the region. It is known that the towns are described as lying along a major fault, the Jordan Rift Valley, the northernmost extension of the Great Rift Valley of the Red Sea and East Africa. It is also possible that the sin of the inhabitants appearing in the original text was edited out and lost.

The historical existence of Sodom and Gomorrah is still in dispute by archaeologists, with most believing they never existed, some believing they are now under the Dead Sea, and others claiming that they have been found (under other names) in the region to the southeast of the Dead Sea.

One candidate for Sodom is a site known as Bab edh-Dhra. Bab edh-Dhra was an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, and bitumen and petroleum deposits have been found in the area, which contain sulfur and natural gas (as such deposits normally do). The theory is that an earthquake opened a nearby pocket of natural gas. Natural gas, being lighter than air, drifted up. However, instead of dissipating harmlessly the gas reacted with the fires burning in the city (the smallest flame could have set off the natural gas). As a result, the city was devastated.

Those who believe that the city never existed assert that the name "Sodom" is a derivative of the word "scorched", implying that such a name could have been given only after the city's alleged destruction, not before. However, this name may have been descriptive of the arid unproductive plains near the Dead Sea.

In 1976 Giovanni Pettinato claimed that a cuneiform tablet that had been found in the newly discovered library at Ebla contained the names of all five of the Cities of the Plain (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela), listed in just the same order that they are named in Genesis, but this claim has apparently been withdrawn. He still claims, however, that si-da-mu [TM.76.G.524] and ì-ma-ar [TM.75.G.1570 and TM.75.G.2233] represent Sodom and Gomorrah[1]. However, Alfonso Archi states that, judging from the surrounding city names in the cuneiform list, si-da-mu lies in northern Syria and not near the Dead Sea, and ì-ma-ar is a variant of ì-mar, known to represent Emar, an ancient city located near Ebla[2].

2006-12-02 09:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

That sounds like an antisemitic question. I want to be wrong about that.
But Sodom and Gomorrah were recently found at the edge of the dead Sea in Israel

2006-12-02 09:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0 0

Iraq

2006-12-02 09:20:55 · answer #4 · answered by ruby 2 · 0 0

first of all, the lads of Sodom had no theory the angels have been easily angels. They theory they have been men. plenty to your "unusual flesh" concept. "Now in the previous they lay down, the lads of the city, the lads of Sodom, the two previous and youthful, all the folk from each quarter, surrounded the homestead. and that they called to Lot and stated to him, 'the place are the lads who got here to you this night? deliver them out to us THAT WE would recognize THEM CARNALLY.' So Lot went out to them in the process the doorway, close the door at the back of him, and stated, 'Please , my brethren, do not gain this WICKEDLY! See now, I even have 2 daughters who have not ordinary (layed with) a guy; please, permit me deliver them out to you, and additionally you would be able to DO TO THEM(what have been they going to DO TO THEM, if it wasn't sexual?) AS you prefer; basically, DO not something (Do What?)to those men,(Lot did not recognize they have been angels, the two) on account that that's why they have come under the shadow of my roof." (Lot replaced into telling them that he invited the "men" into his homestead so as that they does not be attacked by making use of the lads of Sodom) Ezekiel speaks of "abominations" " and that they have got been haughty AND dedicated ABOMINATIONS in the previous Me." Ezek16:50 those "abominations" have been sexual perversions, or homosexuality. "as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in an identical thank you to those, having GIVING THEMSELVES OVER TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND lengthy previous AFTER unusual FLESH, are set forth as an occasion, suffering THE VENGEANCE OF eternal fire." Jude1:7 The Bible additionally describes "unusual flesh" as intercourse between somone different than a guy and a girl. I.E., a guy and a guy, or a girl and a girl. something that may not organic, and not what God meant. You stated "some guy" interior the final two hundred years................. What "guy" did this, and what info do you have of "some guy" changing some thing interior the Bible? Your argument is vulnerable to assert the least. you are going to recognize your Bible in the previous you return on right here, anticipating no person else to acknowledge it the two. not something like taking the Bible out of context, by making use of that, I propose you twisted scripture, then, intentionally left scripture out that pertains to this. severe high quality try, regardless of the undeniable fact that. God Bless

2016-12-18 06:27:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

S&G no longer exists in any shape or form. There are no remnants left. Both were destroyed back to sand.

There is nothing standing in its place at present.

2006-12-02 09:24:48 · answer #6 · answered by D.A. S 5 · 1 0

Ohhhh-can I guess? Jordan, near the Dead Sea.

2006-12-02 09:20:38 · answer #7 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0 0

lies in northern Syria and not near the Dead Sea (first reference)

lies on SE shores of dead sea (proposed) (2nd reference)--and ditto 3rd reference, though "amateur archeologist" is a red flag for me!

2006-12-02 09:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by Yenelli 2 · 0 0

in my opnion the whole world at present

2006-12-02 09:20:57 · answer #9 · answered by LISA A 2 · 0 0

they were supposedly on the dead sea......and they say that if u look, u can still see evidence of something there

2006-12-02 09:19:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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