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Did people in Sodom and Gommorah die from smoking ziggurats?

Posted - May 3, 2018

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  • 5391
    The wording of your question is clever, but the answer is no.

    According to Genesis, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone (an old word for ”sulpher”) raining from “the heavens”. If this is to be believed, the citizenry would have suffocated from poisonous gas and been incinerated; except for Lot’s wife, that is. 

    The two cities and their 3 sister cities of Admah, Zeboim and Bela (of the five cities, only Bela wasn’t destroyed) would predate the earliest ziggurats by many centuries. There is no record of Ziggurats present in the Upper Dead Sea plain region where Sodom and Gomorrah were located. These structures were known in Mesopotamia after about the 6th century BCE. This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 15, 2018 7:20 AM MDT
      May 3, 2018 8:14 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    More likely smoking volcanoes
      May 4, 2018 12:26 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    By the I read in an essay (by a theologian no less) that Sodom and Gomorra lived happily ever after.
      May 4, 2018 12:34 AM MDT
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  • 5835
    You would not believe how many Sodoms and Gomorrahs have been found. Ron Wyatt stumbled onto both of them while he was discovering Noah's Ark, the ark of the covenant, and the Garden Of Eden.
      May 4, 2018 4:21 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    LOL!!
      May 13, 2018 3:37 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    probably , if they got cancer from it
      May 14, 2018 5:37 PM MDT
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  • 5455
    If they were as promiscuous as history would have us believe maybe cancer wasn't their biggest health issue, lol.
      May 15, 2018 12:57 AM MDT
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  • 1326
    "In the same manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them also gave themselves over to gross sexual immorality and pursued unnatural freshly desires; they are placed before us as a warning example by undergoing the judicial punishment of everlasting fire." (Jude 1:7)
      May 16, 2018 11:24 PM MDT
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