What's Your View on the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?

E=MC^2, or M=E/C^2, this means Energy and Matter are interchangeable. Our Spirit is Energy and it can be transferred by the Conduit of “Our Father”, as a Transformer works and as Jesus showed. The Energy of Our Spirit can also be converted into Mass by “Our Father” as did Lot’s Wife into a pillar of Salt(Matter). Her Spirit neither went to Heaven or Hell and went No Where like a Bug. The Catholic Church teaches Purgatory, but that’s not in the Bible anywhere or is it?

What do You think about this explanation?

Interesting notion, but it can’t be shown either in scripture or science.

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Thinking about this, I immediately focused on Lot’s wife turning into a pillar of salt. What could do that??? Well looking this up, it appears to be possible for someone to be rapidly encased in salt, with the most likely scenario being a high salinity geothermal vent and that would point to a volcanic eruption for the destruction of Sodom.

Looking this up suggests, however, it is more likely a story inspired by a geologic feature – a pillar of salt near a place with the name Sodom.

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2 Maccabees 12:45. “But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.”

Where do you think they’re at, if they can “be delivered from their sin”?

Is this the question of the occurrence of Lot’s Wife. No Belief, No Repentance, wanting to continue Sinful Lifestyle, and in turn No Purgatory?

There wasn’t much Science or Physics at the time of Biblical Writings.

No. My post responds to this question: “The Catholic Church teaches Purgatory, but that’s not in the Bible anywhere or is it?”

But is Maccabees in your canon? :wink:

Sure, why not? The Jews let the Song of Solomon in.

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Given the pillar that is assumed to be Lot’s wife is about 65 feet tall it certainly looks like a geologic feature, or she was greatly enlarged when converted to salt.

Canon is a personal preference and I was just wondering if you, personally, take it to be canon.

  • I converted to Catholicism in 1980, to make my marriage to my wife easier on my Mother-in-law. So, yeah, I’ve read a lot of the Apocrypha.

I wasn’t aware of Maccabees, it’s in the Catholic Bible, thank you for the information. I still wonder about Lot’s Wife to a pillar of Salt.

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Wonder what? How a Bronze Age horror story could have anything to do with Christianity? Apart from informing Jesus?