Jude 2

A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for more than a century has been identified as a witness's account of an asteroid that destroyed the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah 5,000 years ago.

Researchers believe that the tablet's symbols give a detailed account of how a mile-long asteroid hit the region, causing thousands of deaths and devastating more than one million sq km (386,000 sq miles).

The impact, equivalent to more than 1,000tons of TNT exploding, would have created one of the world's biggest-ever landslides.

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This sounds like bunk to me. For one thing, an asteroid a mile across would have the effect of 7000 hydrogen bombs. I don't think Lot would get away from that just by taking a walk. For another thing, such an event wouldn't have destroyed only Sodom and Gomorrah. I would have destroyed most if not all of human civilization, as the dirt, dust and debris thrown into the atmosphere would have spread across the globe, and blotted out the sun in a "nuclear winter", causing crop failures and dramatic global climate change. Anything that large would be an extinction level event.

Sodom and Gomorrah was a supernatural event, not an asteroid strike.

DaJudge wrote:This sounds like bunk to me. For one thing, an asteroid a mile across would have the effect of 7000 hydrogen bombs. I don't think Lot would get away from that just by taking a walk. For another thing, such an event wouldn't have destroyed only Sodom and Gomorrah. I would have destroyed most if not all of human civilization, as the dirt, dust and debris thrown into the atmosphere would have spread across the globe, and blotted out the sun in a "nuclear winter", causing crop failures and dramatic global climate change. Anything that large would be an extinction level event.

Sodom and Gomorrah was a supernatural event, not an asteroid strike.

This seems to be an all or nothing opinion. An either or.

God COULD have used an asteroid and supernaturally protected Lot and reigned in the Asteroids negative effects IF HE CHOSE TO DO SO.

Gerald Creasy wrote:

DaJudge wrote:This sounds like bunk to me. For one thing, an asteroid a mile across would have the effect of 7000 hydrogen bombs. I don't think Lot would get away from that just by taking a walk. For another thing, such an event wouldn't have destroyed only Sodom and Gomorrah. I would have destroyed most if not all of human civilization, as the dirt, dust and debris thrown into the atmosphere would have spread across the globe, and blotted out the sun in a "nuclear winter", causing crop failures and dramatic global climate change. Anything that large would be an extinction level event.

Sodom and Gomorrah was a supernatural event, not an asteroid strike.

This seems to be an all or nothing opinion. An either or.

God COULD have used an asteroid and supernaturally protected Lot and reigned in the Asteroids negative effects IF HE CHOSE TO DO SO.

But why would he, when he can just destroy it with a word? And where is the impact crater?

DaJudge wrote:
But why would he, when he can just destroy it with a word? And where is the impact crater?

Wouldn't this be similar to the flood? He could have just spoken the word and all civilization would have been obliterated except those He chose to protect but that's not how He did it.
I agree that the size of the asteroid would seem to be exaggerated but a much smaller event could have been God's method of destroying these cities.

DaJudge wrote:But why would he, when he can just destroy it with a word? And where is the impact crater?

Um....why would he Send his son....when he could forgive with a word?
Why would he allow Satan to continue...when he could end it with a word?
Why would he do anything he did in the way he did when the end could acieved with a word?

Can you tell me what a God inhibited asteroid strike crater would look like? When you have done this, then perhaps we could locate it.

the late Babylonian, Cuneiform Planisphere is very old (apparently). the think i find interesting is that it kind of stands on it's head, the idea that ancient peoples were "ignorant", backwards and "primitive".

the crater may exist and be covered over with water aka the Dead Sea

Yes this is similar to the other arguments where we fully acknowledge the supernatural event that God caused.. yet in the second breath totally tie God's hands under HIS own natural laws.

God is sovereign in ALL situations, across all complex and simple.

RamboPreacher wrote:the late Babylonian, Cuneiform Planisphere is very old (apparently). the think i find interesting is that it kind of stands on it's head, the idea that ancient peoples were "ignorant", backwards and "primitive".

I constantly tell others that we could be in the next Solar System by now.
If not for the wars and civilizations destroyed to where the same wheel had to be invented over and over.

Speaking outside of God's appointed time.. my premise is that it's just the peace time or forces of Good (wars won in civilizations favor) in these recent historical times that have allowed such advancements to be learned and passed on effectively, ie; Newton, Einstein, Today's thinkers etc..

That ability to accumulate knowledge and build on it.