Dr. Collins, I have your recent book on discovering Sodom; and as I am reading it, I am also listening and watching your Utube videos. Is it not fantastic that all of this is now occurring in these very, very latter days. The similarities between the days of Sodom and today, are uncanny. As an old senior, here, in Canada, I can now really understand that we are nearly there to experience God’s Word, that, “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind can understand, what the Lord has prepared for those who love him”. Thank you.
Truly a message the whole world needs to hear! We are already well within Matthew 24. There is no government, no nation that can or will bring this world true and lasting peace, only Jesus Christ can and will force it upon mankind!
yes I enjoyed it too. Archaeological evidence of the destruction of previous kingdoms according to scripture is one of the best ways of proving the existance of God. Hope to see more of Sodom in the future, probably one of the clearest examples in history to prove something very ugly occurred there. Didn't know they existed for 3000 years prior to the destruction either. Absolutely amazing.
yes, it is something amazing to show others more scientific proofs of our great books (God's books). Hint: Bible ... till last book "The holy Qur'an". it must to give a look where scientific still time to time discover things that has been mentioned in the Qur'an more than 1400 years ago. it has advantages over other Holy books which are last one, has only one copy "all the world has same copy", and many others. it is worthy to read the last message of God before die. thank you.
@@siyabongabhongoza939 The Bible telling big lies! Claiming that The cheater Con artits loser Metusalah ( Metusalem).lived the longest 969 years old! The Truth is 9 women lived longer than Metusalem Metusalah!! The oldest women Zillah lived longer than Metusalem 999 years old! Why The Bible claiming that The men Con artits loser cheater Metusalah Metusalem lived 969 years old! Because 969/600=1,615 The perfect beauty is 1,618 The golden ratio! This is why the most beautiful women Zillah ( 1,618= Zillah her face structure The most beautiful face ever). lived 999 years old!.
Isn’t it interesting that the educated run all over trying to vindicate God‘s Word by digging up what is in the ground, and God verifies Himself by what was not found in the ground after it was buried , and he used the uneducated to assist Him?
not as you say. God's words for all generations. let me talk about the Holy Qur'an when it was sending to the messenger of God, the Quran gave the people at that time many evidence which they can see like messenger's knowledge about future things and they happens, and many others "you can search for them". However, because this book is from God and he said in the Qur'an this book for that period and all periods after. science till these days discovers things which they have been written in the Qur'an 1400 years ago. like Pharaoh, born, mountains, moving 'running away' of Sun.... many things. I hope you think at least why people around the world leave their religion to be Muslims. Please read much in topics about why Islam is the religion of God. thanks.
@@mohammedbabusail3945 i thought ish=like and m-El = God...lots of arranging of words trying to see what's same as a lot seems to be pretty much same stories just different people with the same concepts in different languages. So like god would also be God man ? Wasn't he also Abraham's son ? Just a different mother, but Sarah was the one who asked for that son. It just seems unkind looking in a modern day, but i'm no scholar of much. I have a good heart as we all do and wonder what we might not quite be reading correctly. Anyway..i wish we really knew what all these things are about. All these churches argue and i had to do word ciphers to try to get a grasp of my own bible, due to all the languages and mixing throughout. The math all comes out though, quite interestingly enough. See what you all get, as i can't read yours. I have to listen to your english lecturers to match things up. They all sound pretty similar and so there must be a little place where some room is left out to match things up. There should probably not be two Gods but this Greek Mythology is where i see all the strange.."Myth" ????? So it seems as though we are not quite looking where we need to from what i got out of this. You know Evil will be doing a lot of tricks to take over and confuse everyone..and hiding while we all harm each other instead of finding where we all should really be looking. I think all have been tricked in a whole lot because Satan is running the world if we are killing, is what i am not seeing love in killing people, and that is very scary. Killing is not loving God's creations, so this is always "first up" in thought, when i begin about thanking God for love and creation and thanking him for life. In otherwords if we are having love and forgivness in these religions ...what is all the killing about ? I don't really comprehend it all, as i think love means caring for our brethren and keeping peace, unless someone is right up on your family. We could just have techno shields instead. There are miles and miles of plenty of lands. I thought peacemaker meant no killing. I wish there was an island where people who do, 'not harm', could just go and say thank you creator of all life, and smile with good manners, and kindly caring ways. I might just be the stange one but i thought that's what heaven was all about.
I understand the gradual progress of archaeology and the necessarily slow and careful acquisition, evaluation, interpretation, and presentation of findings to the scholarly world which, as in this case, isn't very 'friendly' toward the historicity of the Bible. I also understand the competition among various claims for the correct locations of Sodom, Gommorah, Zoar, etc. as part of not only the discovery of historical truth but also of the staking out of professional turf and credibility. I'm personally very happy to follow Dr. Collins' reading of Genesis which lead him to the Tel Hammam site he's excavated north of the Dead Sea and thinks is Sodom, and I'm also happy with the corroboration of the time period which the 'stuff' he's uncovered provides. He strikes me as a careful scholar and I value his reasoning and hard work. I'm also wondering-based upon the general uncertainty in modern times of the various locations mentioned in the Bible relative to these infamous cities, plus on account of the general 'fit' between various details in Genesis with the Dead Sea area generally-if there's still some 'room' in the evaluation of all the available data acquired so far, including that provided about the site situated below Masada on the southwestern edge of the Dead Sea (where Ron Wyatt and others have discovered high purity sulfur 'globules'-some of which are partially burnt-IN SITU amid much landscape which appears to have been limestone 'structures' that were transformed by great heat and reaction with sulfur into the crumbling, layered material which has been shown on various videos) for Dr. Collins to be RIGHT about the location of Sodom and for Mr. Wyatt to have also been right about his below-Masada site being that of Gommorah? Do we know for certain that Sodom and Gommorah were in very close proximity to each other? Or might they have been situated at almost opposite ends of the Dead Sea (the same way that, say, Ithaca and Seneca Falls are located at opposite ends of Cayuga Lake in upstate New York)? If one looks up the "valley of Siddim"-and I"m no Hebrew scholar myself-in what sources are available, it seems at least possible that the "valley" referred to may pertain to the whole North-South area in which the Dead Sea (or "Salt Sea") is located. Likewise, the term "Arabah" seems to apply, at least at certain times in history, to the whole Rift Valley area running from the Sea of Galilee down to the top end of the Gulf of Aqaba. The reason I mention all of this is to raise the question: Could the geographic descriptions relative to Sodom and Gommorah in Genesis be broad enough, or at least uncertain enough in some details, to PERMIT Gommorah to be in the SW location while Sodom is at Tel Hammam? In terms of a massive meteoric event being the means by which God (entirely providentially or otherwise) destroyed these cities, and because meteors not infrequently break into pieces during their high speed entry into Earth's atmosphere, mightn't Sodom (located at Collin's Tel Hammam site, which is visible from Ai and thus matches up with the text of Genesis) and Gomorrah (perhaps located at Wyatt's SW shore of the Dead Sea site) have BOTH been destroyed by a couple of large and highly explosive chunks FROM THE SAME METEOR? Even Dr. Collins' projected direction for the meteor's path-coming in toward Sodom/Tel Harmmam from the southwest-could fit with this scenario provided that the chunk of material which in this scenario fell/exploded over the SW site contained an exceptionally high quantity of sulfur (hence the presence of the sulfur 'globules and purported evidence of high heat/burning of limestone structures there) while another chunk continued onward over the remaining distance (approximately 35 miles) to reach/explode over Sodom at Tel Hammam in turn. Unless I've missed something in the text of Genesis, only Sodom need have been visible to Lot from Ai (i.e., perhaps not also Gommorah?). A plausible source for a high sulfur-content asteroid to 'fill the role' of the Sodom/Gommorah 'doomsday' meteor might be Jupiter's moon Io, which the VOYAGER spacecraft discovered in 1980-81 to be COVERED with different allotropes of sulfur that were being belched out of active sulfur volcanoes as the spacecraft flew by. It's not extremely likely-but still possible-that a meteor striking Io could knock off a chuck of its high sulfur-content surface material, which could then in turn escape the Jupiter system and eventually find its way into the inner Solar System to 'nuke' Sodom and Gommorah with 'fire and brimstone from the sky' in God's providential timing. Someone with sufficient science training would have to research the sulfur concentration of Io's surface material (as best as we know it at the present time) to see if its sulfur concentration is a match for that found at the below-Masada site or not, but in any case Io might not be the only possible source for such material, although sulfur is certainly 'available' there in abundance.
Im no expert on this topic and dont really care. However I had a secular not religious class in college filled with archaeology. I was stunned to see how many excavations verified Biblical geography and stories. When you say archaeology is not friendly to the Bible I think you got that wrong. I had a secular class on this stuff and made me realize whatever you say about the Bible it has lots of verifiable elements to it in terms of archaeology.
Going to School for my M.S. in O-Chem and it absolutely amazes me how hot the wrath of god was that it melted all the brick (not surprising), I think there’s much less of a chance it being something else then it not being Sodom from everything I’ve seen. I’ve been following this for many years. When I started out I was definitely skeptical about literal interpretation of biblical text. Now skeptic isn’t in my vocabulary. If these had been eyewitness accounts for a CNN story and then backed with all of the evidence we have it would be accepted as canon in main stream society
Between Sodom and Televiv Israel (lgbt capital of the world) Yes, the western world and Europe fits the bill also. Stay prayerful, very prayerful. Please Father have mercy on us.
Ron Whatt's findings on Noah's Ark is pretty compelling. Id say it is more than likely the actual spot of the ark. And lines up with the bible verses pretty well
I will never understand how can a scientist be a religious person. The very essence of the field is working with evidence and not with imagination. Still this is a very important dig, that I personally have been waiting to hear of, so I’m happy Steven and his colleagues put the pieces together. The bible does have a lot of clues on how and where to look for evidence for the stories in it. On the other hand many times the research proves contradictions in the text and reality being displayed as they wanted it to be, sometimes many years after the events have taken place. I guess they were human after all. I live in Israel and have been to many important sites of the era. it is very much interesting to study the connection between the old text and the actual finds. No gods never found, believe me. just different people and a whole ark of beliefs.
That's because militant atheists with an agenda of anti-religious bigotry are the ones who push that stereotype about religion and science being in conflict, whereas this is yet one more example of science confirming biblical history and claims. I've seen similar conclusions regarding the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the myth of the multiverse used to dodge around the evidence of both. The more I hear militant artists talk, the more obvious it becomes that it is an emotion-based system masquerading as science. In which case it is atheism and science that are mutually at odds, and this is more so than at any point in our past. And the more scientific and archaeological discoveries made, the weaker it becomes.
1700bc doesn't fit the Biblical timeline for Abraham. Solomons temple built approx 970bc, Exodus 480 y before temple build (1 kings 6 1), Egyptian sojourn 430 y (Exodus 12 40), promise made to Abraham 215 y before Israel goes to Egypt. Do the Maths - Abraham was dead centuries before 1700BC. His radio carbon date is out by hundreds of years.
@@wadetaylor3195 Wade im an old fart....youre asking me of something im honestly wracking my brains over...and as honestly as well as directly answering your question ,...im going to prob not be able to answer your question in the manner expected......because its boardering on questioning a mans faith..and then from where and what evidence does that faith stand on. would i believe..? yes.....but......it wasnt always so.... long ago i had belief there was a God .....but that came with much confusion and uncertainty ...for my faith to grow from blind faith to faith based on the scripture was a process ..of searching and asking questions...weeding thru lies and truths taught by men and studying the scripture thoroughly ....even setting aside denominational teachings ( thank the Lord for the internet and libraries i was allowed to ask and search out answers to questions i had ..not counting on the biases that can come from teachers and such......remarkably ...in scripture we are taught to test all things and see if things be true or not.....He is a wise God for sure) i was researching,...church and world history...the pathway of the scriptures through time..comparing scripture with scripture...archeological evidences such as in israel and mid east etc... so...i am a kjv bible believer...not the nlt or niv or add .....i believe 2 tim 2:15 is key to unlocking the scripture ...like the bible says (paraphrasing) when i was a child i thought as a child ...im no longer a child though. Do i believe a man swallowed by a fish for 3 days....yep....how...? was it a dead whale floating in the water convieniently that jonah used or a fish actually gulped down a man....we live in a miracle ...however it happened ...it did happen...i can ask God details when i see him. ive never seen china...but i believe it is there..many evidences but even before evidences as a child i believed there was a china... so sorry for the whole spiel ...but i wanted to answer and give grounds. because its not just a simple yes or no if i simply left it at yes...then what...? more questions..how or why...? let me ask or say....does the finding of a structure on a mountain even prove that the structure EVER seen water.....i can go to a boat manufacturer and see boats for sale ...doesnt mean those boats have ever seen water.... so yes i believe..some before ...maybe more so with the findings ...it just may help fillin some ...as well as sea fossils on mountain tops ...and grand canyon etc etc. but i believe scripture ..moreso as a man than a youngster....but then or now....i believe even before ron wyatt what are your thoughts on the shroud of turin....?
@@dwcookjr8206 wow bro, im in shock! Im with you on 2 Tim 2:15 and the KJV Bible, which is so offensive to many self professing christians. I too have been through the religion circus, but now im happy to say I'm nothin but a Bible believer, rightly divided. As a Bible believer, we believe the verses before we see the physical evidence. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT seen. Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing , and hearing by the word of God. The word of God is your source of faith. Scripture says Jesus was born of a virgin, do I need some proof before I can believe it? If so then I really don't believe it. Want to know how to get to Heaven? Trust Christ as your savior! 1Cor 15:1-4 the gospel "by which also ye are saved" dont take it from me, check it 'n see! Whether or not this guy thinks he's found Sodom and Gomorrah or not doesn't matter. I only watched this video because i was curious about the dead sea. I don't know anything about the shroud of turin.
@@wadetaylor3195 outstanding ....i like that you mention the gospel that Paul relays to jew and gentile during this age of grace......and in that he writes twice .."according to the scriptures" ....i do believe the Lord wouldnt repeat himself unless it was important ...and Christ often said things like "as it was written" or to the temple priests "you err not knowing the scripture" so in scripture ..the writings of scripture passages are refered to often ...the prophecies and the law..which Christ said he came to fullfil ...like the isaiah scroll he read from and said "today in your hearing this has been fullfilled "but only the first half speaking of him...while he stopped ...because the next part is yet to be...and its gonna be a doozy !!! i have a program that lets me search out phrases and words ...like love..or light ..in the bible...ive seen a few good videos on the shroud of turin...ill try to find a link and share it with ya...basically..thinkof all the times "light" is referenced to ..like moses face when he came back off the mountain shined..and Christ when he accended became bright..andwhen he appeared to paul he shined so bright...then watch the vids on the shroud .....like the atomic bombs left shadow figures of objects and people..i really think the shroud is the image slightly burned or etched on the fibers ...when christ returned to his body it shined so bright it left that image on the shroud...im convinced it is the true burial cloth of Christ...ill find some links for ya or just youtube search "shroud of turin" ......grace and peace brother!!
They flipped out when the found a tablet with pontius pilate name on it.. They always said pontius pilate was fictional. They said the Syrian empire was fictional. Then they dug it up. So this is one more thing dug up proving the bible has some credible true history. I don't think suddenly anti-Christ are suddenly going to start believing in Christ. But it just shows like I said. Maybe some believers would help their faith.
Calvery called it dirt that covered Soddomn. If Calvery really found Soddomn ,then they would have found Soddomn covered by ash of brimstone aka ,sulfur. What they dug up under DIRT is just one of many cities buried under dirt .
Yemen is where biblical stories happened. Every place that is mentioned in the Bible exists in Yemen and the same historical stories of Himyarites in south(Jews) and Saba' in north (Israelites) are mentioned in the Bible.
But where is the brimstone? I thought there were spheres of sulphur all over the ground. Also, I thought Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed before 2000 BC, 300 years earlier than you indicated this tell was destroyed. And you say this city was occupied for 3000 years before it was destroyed. That would mean it was continuously occupied since before the Flood and the Tower of Babel. How do you explain these differences with the Biblical timeframe?
Hey wait a minute you said nobody found Noah's Ark a team of scientists found it on Mount Ararat and they walked into it when the snow receipted they identified a boat in the side of the mountain they got permission from Russia to go hiking and exploring and they walked inside of it and took a piece of the wood out they found Noah's Ark why do you say they have not found it? This come from my memory from long ago.
And when Our envoys came to Lot, he was anxious for them, and concerned for them. He said, "This is a dreadful day." And his people came rushing towards him-they were in the habit of committing sins. He said, "O my people, these are my daughters; they are purer for you. So fear Allah, and do not embarrass me before my guests. Is there not one reasonable man among you?" They said, "You know well that we have no right to your daughters, and you know well what we want." He said, "If only I had the strength to stop you, or could rely on some strong support." They said, "O Lot, we are the envoys of your Lord; they will not reach you. So set out with your family during the cover of the night, and let none of you look back, except for your wife. She will be struck by what will strike them. Their appointed time is the morning. Is not the morning near?" And when Our command came about, We turned it upside down, and We rained down on it stones of baked clay. 83 Marked from your Lord, and never far from the wrongdoers
Well, he actually dug there, extensively if I might add. It’s kind of like finding an old car in the woods and you pass it up and then someone else comes along and tries to start it and it turns over and they take the car. Yes someone else may have discovered it. But they didn’t have the courage to investigate as he did.
i do believe in the bible but, where is all the SULPHUR? also the bible alsy says "nothing grows in there" i do think this may be a city, but not sodom.
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Highly unlikely. The fire and brimstone sent from heaven made the place a desolation as a means of warning those that Sodom was to be completely destroyed and removed nothing coming up in it's place.
Lol, you had awesome evidence to support the biblical account of a meteor impact, but then you took it to a stretch saying that god sent the meteor because sodom was a certain way. At some point you have to realize that those people had no idea what happened, so of course they’re going to come to the conclusion that “god was angry at Sodom for X, Y, and Z”, but that’s not scientific. I’m surprised you haven’t realized the evidence that Jesus was a metaphor for the sun.
@J DV they would create a myth about the sun because what is the most important thing to our species? Being able to grow food based on tracking the sun. The sun provides us light to see, keeps us warm and dies in the winter, food to eat, and heals us. It’s this mysterious ball of energy that moves around in us the sky and dictates our survival. This is a metaphor that was born of pagan origins, but like everything else in christianity, it was squeezed into the overarching story of jesus in order to assimilate pagans into society. The United Church of God admits all of this. Jesus may have been a real person, but 300 years after his death he took on the role of a metaphor for this assimilation. It’s beautiful, and ends up actually making christian symbology and tradition make more sense. How else can a man be dead in a tomb for 3 days and resurrect? Oh, cause on December 21st the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky for 3 days then rises once again (is reborn). And that’s just one example of many that have been pointed out. The thing is, the bible is not linear. There are multiple lessons and stories being overlaid on top of each other. It’s similar to how words work, where one word could have multiple meanings depending on the context you’re using it in. Oh, you want to learn how to live the best way you can? Read the bible like this. Oh, you want to know how to track the sun through the constellations for growing food? Read the bible like this. Oh, you want to know about the historical records of natural disasters? Read the bible like this. Context is everything. Cool isn’t it?
Dr. Collins, I have your recent book on discovering Sodom; and as I am reading it, I am also listening and watching your Utube videos. Is it not fantastic that all of this is now occurring in these very, very latter days. The similarities between the days of Sodom and today, are uncanny. As an old senior, here, in Canada, I can now really understand that we are nearly there to experience God’s Word, that, “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind can understand, what the Lord has prepared for those who love him”. Thank you.
Everything will come to pass as it is written, the rocks will cry out and reveal the truth...
My rocks are forever crying out
@@iveseen1 Why, didn't you get them off?;)
Truly a message the whole world needs to hear! We are already well within Matthew 24. There is no government, no nation that can or will bring this world true and lasting peace, only Jesus Christ can and will force it upon mankind!
God is the best relationship you ever could ever have
I love seeing how things were from biblical times....so very interesting! Thank you!
yes I enjoyed it too. Archaeological evidence of the destruction of previous kingdoms according to scripture is one of the best ways of proving the existance of God. Hope to see more of Sodom in the future, probably one of the clearest examples in history to prove something very ugly occurred there. Didn't know they existed for 3000 years prior to the destruction either. Absolutely amazing.
yes, it is something amazing to show others more scientific proofs of our great books (God's books). Hint: Bible ... till last book "The holy Qur'an". it must to give a look where scientific still time to time discover things that has been mentioned in the Qur'an more than 1400 years ago. it has advantages over other Holy books which are last one, has only one copy "all the world has same copy", and many others. it is worthy to read the last message of God before die. thank you.
LOT Had sex with his daughters! Incest is wrong! In The heaven You Will meet this rapist LOT! The Bible family values Sex With daughters
@@RaineriHakkarainen don't hate the truth love it cos it loves you ! ✌️
@@siyabongabhongoza939 The Bible telling big lies! Claiming that The cheater Con artits loser Metusalah ( Metusalem).lived the longest 969 years old! The Truth is 9 women lived longer than Metusalem Metusalah!! The oldest women Zillah lived longer than Metusalem 999 years old! Why The Bible claiming that The men Con artits loser cheater Metusalah Metusalem lived 969 years old! Because 969/600=1,615 The perfect beauty is 1,618 The golden ratio! This is why the most beautiful women Zillah ( 1,618= Zillah her face structure The most beautiful face ever). lived 999 years old!.
I look forward to these! Love them, thanks for sharing!
It's good to hear truth . . .
LOT Had sex with his daughters! Incest is wrong! In The heaven You Will meet this rapist LOT! The Bible family values Sex With daughters
Thanks for sharing your fascinating work as testimony to The Living Word.
Noahs ark has been discovered, along with many other biblical artifacts. Ron Wyatt has made many discoveries
Isn’t it interesting that the educated run all over trying to vindicate God‘s Word by digging up what is in the ground, and God verifies Himself by what was not found in the ground after it was buried , and he used the uneducated to assist Him?
not as you say. God's words for all generations. let me talk about the Holy Qur'an when it was sending to the messenger of God, the Quran gave the people at that time many evidence which they can see like messenger's knowledge about future things and they happens, and many others "you can search for them". However, because this book is from God and he said in the Qur'an this book for that period and all periods after. science till these days discovers things which they have been written in the Qur'an 1400 years ago. like Pharaoh, born, mountains, moving 'running away' of Sun.... many things. I hope you think at least why people around the world leave their religion to be Muslims. Please read much in topics about why Islam is the religion of God. thanks.
@@mohammedbabusail3945 i thought ish=like and m-El = God...lots of arranging of words trying to see what's same as a lot seems to be pretty much same stories just different people with the same concepts in different languages. So like god would also be God man ? Wasn't he also Abraham's son ? Just a different mother, but Sarah was the one who asked for that son. It just seems unkind looking in a modern day, but i'm no scholar of much. I have a good heart as we all do and wonder what we might not quite be reading correctly. Anyway..i wish we really knew what all these things are about. All these churches argue and i had to do word ciphers to try to get a grasp of my own bible, due to all the languages and mixing throughout. The math all comes out though, quite interestingly enough. See what you all get, as i can't read yours. I have to listen to your english lecturers to match things up. They all sound pretty similar and so there must be a little place where some room is left out to match things up. There should probably not be two Gods but this Greek Mythology is where i see all the strange.."Myth" ????? So it seems as though we are not quite looking where we need to from what i got out of this. You know Evil will be doing a lot of tricks to take over and confuse everyone..and hiding while we all harm each other instead of finding where we all should really be looking. I think all have been tricked in a whole lot because Satan is running the world if we are killing, is what i am not seeing love in killing people, and that is very scary. Killing is not loving God's creations, so this is always "first up" in thought, when i begin about thanking God for love and creation and thanking him for life. In otherwords if we are having love and forgivness in these religions ...what is all the killing about ? I don't really comprehend it all, as i think love means caring for our brethren and keeping peace, unless someone is right up on your family. We could just have techno shields instead. There are miles and miles of plenty of lands. I thought peacemaker meant no killing. I wish there was an island where people who do, 'not harm', could just go and say thank you creator of all life, and smile with good manners, and kindly caring ways. I might just be the stange one but i thought that's what heaven was all about.
I understand the gradual progress of archaeology and the necessarily slow and careful acquisition, evaluation, interpretation, and presentation of findings to the scholarly world which, as in this case, isn't very 'friendly' toward the historicity of the Bible. I also understand the competition among various claims for the correct locations of Sodom, Gommorah, Zoar, etc. as part of not only the discovery of historical truth but also of the staking out of professional turf and credibility. I'm personally very happy to follow Dr. Collins' reading of Genesis which lead him to the Tel Hammam site he's excavated north of the Dead Sea and thinks is Sodom, and I'm also happy with the corroboration of the time period which the 'stuff' he's uncovered provides. He strikes me as a careful scholar and I value his reasoning and hard work.
I'm also wondering-based upon the general uncertainty in modern times of the various locations mentioned in the Bible relative to these infamous cities, plus on account of the general 'fit' between various details in Genesis with the Dead Sea area generally-if there's still some 'room' in the evaluation of all the available data acquired so far, including that provided about the site situated below Masada on the southwestern edge of the Dead Sea (where Ron Wyatt and others have discovered high purity sulfur 'globules'-some of which are partially burnt-IN SITU amid much landscape which appears to have been limestone 'structures' that were transformed by great heat and reaction with sulfur into the crumbling, layered material which has been shown on various videos) for Dr. Collins to be RIGHT about the location of Sodom and for Mr. Wyatt to have also been right about his below-Masada site being that of Gommorah? Do we know for certain that Sodom and Gommorah were in very close proximity to each other? Or might they have been situated at almost opposite ends of the Dead Sea (the same way that, say, Ithaca and Seneca Falls are located at opposite ends of Cayuga Lake in upstate New York)?
If one looks up the "valley of Siddim"-and I"m no Hebrew scholar myself-in what sources are available, it seems at least possible that the "valley" referred to may pertain to the whole North-South area in which the Dead Sea (or "Salt Sea") is located. Likewise, the term "Arabah" seems to apply, at least at certain times in history, to the whole Rift Valley area running from the Sea of Galilee down to the top end of the Gulf of Aqaba. The reason I mention all of this is to raise the question: Could the geographic descriptions relative to Sodom and Gommorah in Genesis be broad enough, or at least uncertain enough in some details, to PERMIT Gommorah to be in the SW location while Sodom is at Tel Hammam?
In terms of a massive meteoric event being the means by which God (entirely providentially or otherwise) destroyed these cities, and because meteors not infrequently break into pieces during their high speed entry into Earth's atmosphere, mightn't Sodom (located at Collin's Tel Hammam site, which is visible from Ai and thus matches up with the text of Genesis) and Gomorrah (perhaps located at Wyatt's SW shore of the Dead Sea site) have BOTH been destroyed by a couple of large and highly explosive chunks FROM THE SAME METEOR? Even Dr. Collins' projected direction for the meteor's path-coming in toward Sodom/Tel Harmmam from the southwest-could fit with this scenario provided that the chunk of material which in this scenario fell/exploded over the SW site contained an exceptionally high quantity of sulfur (hence the presence of the sulfur 'globules and purported evidence of high heat/burning of limestone structures there) while another chunk continued onward over the remaining distance (approximately 35 miles) to reach/explode over Sodom at Tel Hammam in turn. Unless I've missed something in the text of Genesis, only Sodom need have been visible to Lot from Ai (i.e., perhaps not also Gommorah?).
A plausible source for a high sulfur-content asteroid to 'fill the role' of the Sodom/Gommorah 'doomsday' meteor might be Jupiter's moon Io, which the VOYAGER spacecraft discovered in 1980-81 to be COVERED with different allotropes of sulfur that were being belched out of active sulfur volcanoes as the spacecraft flew by. It's not extremely likely-but still possible-that a meteor striking Io could knock off a chuck of its high sulfur-content surface material, which could then in turn escape the Jupiter system and eventually find its way into the inner Solar System to 'nuke' Sodom and Gommorah with 'fire and brimstone from the sky' in God's providential timing. Someone with sufficient science training would have to research the sulfur concentration of Io's surface material (as best as we know it at the present time) to see if its sulfur concentration is a match for that found at the below-Masada site or not, but in any case Io might not be the only possible source for such material, although sulfur is certainly 'available' there in abundance.
Im no expert on this topic and dont really care. However I had a secular not religious class in college filled with archaeology. I was stunned to see how many excavations verified Biblical geography and stories. When you say archaeology is not friendly to the Bible I think you got that wrong. I had a secular class on this stuff and made me realize whatever you say about the Bible it has lots of verifiable elements to it in terms of archaeology.
Going to School for my M.S. in O-Chem and it absolutely amazes me how hot the wrath of god was that it melted all the brick (not surprising), I think there’s much less of a chance it being something else then it not being Sodom from everything I’ve seen. I’ve been following this for many years. When I started out I was definitely skeptical about literal interpretation of biblical text. Now skeptic isn’t in my vocabulary. If these had been eyewitness accounts for a CNN story and then backed with all of the evidence we have it would be accepted as canon in main stream society
Between Sodom and Televiv Israel (lgbt capital of the world) Yes, the western world and Europe fits the bill also.
Stay prayerful, very prayerful.
Please Father have mercy on us.
Ron Whatt's findings on Noah's Ark is pretty compelling. Id say it is more than likely the actual spot of the ark. And lines up with the bible verses pretty well
Ron Wyatt has proven to be fraud.
God left the proof. The receipts are there.
I will never understand how can a scientist be a religious person. The very essence of the field is working with evidence and not with imagination. Still this is a very important dig, that I personally have been waiting to hear of, so I’m happy Steven and his colleagues put the pieces together. The bible does have a lot of clues on how and where to look for evidence for the stories in it. On the other hand many times the research proves contradictions in the text and reality being displayed as they wanted it to be, sometimes many years after the events have taken place. I guess they were human after all. I live in Israel and have been to many important sites of the era. it is very much interesting to study the connection between the old text and the actual finds. No gods never found, believe me. just different people and a whole ark of beliefs.
If you are a scientist than you are arrogant.
If you're not than it's a catastrophe!
The Bible is an accurate record of the history of the area. It’s where science should start, and then build on. It’s amazing.
That's because militant atheists with an agenda of anti-religious bigotry are the ones who push that stereotype about religion and science being in conflict, whereas this is yet one more example of science confirming biblical history and claims.
I've seen similar conclusions regarding the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the myth of the multiverse used to dodge around the evidence of both.
The more I hear militant artists talk, the more obvious it becomes that it is an emotion-based system masquerading as science.
In which case it is atheism and science that are mutually at odds, and this is more so than at any point in our past.
And the more scientific and archaeological discoveries made, the weaker it becomes.
You’re lost. Any atheist is a fool
woow! hit home
1700bc doesn't fit the Biblical timeline for Abraham.
Solomons temple built approx 970bc, Exodus 480 y before temple build (1 kings 6 1), Egyptian sojourn 430 y (Exodus 12 40), promise made to Abraham 215 y before Israel goes to Egypt. Do the Maths - Abraham was dead centuries before 1700BC.
His radio carbon date is out by hundreds of years.
Sodom-Gomorrah sin is ESG equality, so they all got punished equally as a result
noahs ark has been found
ron wyatt and sons
@@dwcookjr8206 Would you believe the flood happened if the ark wasn't found?
@@wadetaylor3195 Wade im an old fart....youre asking me of something im honestly wracking my brains over...and as honestly as well as directly answering your question ,...im going to prob not be able to answer your question in the manner expected......because its boardering on questioning a mans faith..and then from where and what evidence does that faith stand on.
would i believe..? yes.....but......it wasnt always so.... long ago i had belief there was a God .....but that came with much confusion and uncertainty ...for my faith to grow from blind faith to faith based on the scripture was a process ..of searching and asking questions...weeding thru lies and truths taught by men and studying the scripture thoroughly ....even setting aside denominational teachings ( thank the Lord for the internet and libraries i was allowed to ask and search out answers to questions i had ..not counting on the biases that can come from teachers and such......remarkably ...in scripture we are taught to test all things and see if things be true or not.....He is a wise God for sure)
i was researching,...church and world history...the pathway of the scriptures through time..comparing scripture with scripture...archeological evidences such as in israel and mid east etc...
so...i am a kjv bible believer...not the nlt or niv or add .....i believe 2 tim 2:15 is key to unlocking the scripture ...like the bible says (paraphrasing) when i was a child i thought as a child ...im no longer a child though.
Do i believe a man swallowed by a fish for 3 days....yep....how...? was it a dead whale floating in the water convieniently that jonah used or a fish actually gulped down a man....we live in a miracle ...however it happened ...it did happen...i can ask God details when i see him. ive never seen china...but i believe it is there..many evidences but even before evidences as a child i believed there was a china...
so sorry for the whole spiel ...but i wanted to answer and give grounds. because its not just a simple yes or no
if i simply left it at yes...then what...? more questions..how or why...?
let me ask or say....does the finding of a structure on a mountain even prove that the structure EVER seen water.....i can go to a boat manufacturer and see boats for sale ...doesnt mean those boats have ever seen water....
so yes i believe..some before ...maybe more so with the findings ...it just may help fillin some ...as well as sea fossils on mountain tops ...and grand canyon etc etc.
but i believe scripture ..moreso as a man than a youngster....but then or now....i believe even before ron wyatt
what are your thoughts on the shroud of turin....?
@@dwcookjr8206 wow bro, im in shock! Im with you on 2 Tim 2:15 and the KJV Bible, which is so offensive to many self professing christians. I too have been through the religion circus, but now im happy to say I'm nothin but a Bible believer, rightly divided. As a Bible believer, we believe the verses before we see the physical evidence.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT seen.
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing , and hearing by the word of God.
The word of God is your source of faith. Scripture says Jesus was born of a virgin, do I need some proof before I can believe it? If so then I really don't believe it.
Want to know how to get to Heaven? Trust Christ as your savior!
1Cor 15:1-4 the gospel "by which also ye are saved"
dont take it from me, check it 'n see!
Whether or not this guy thinks he's found Sodom and Gomorrah or not doesn't matter. I only watched this video because i was curious about the dead sea.
I don't know anything about the shroud of turin.
@@wadetaylor3195 outstanding ....i like that you mention the gospel that Paul relays to jew and gentile during this age of grace......and in that he writes twice .."according to the scriptures" ....i do believe the Lord wouldnt repeat himself unless it was important ...and Christ often said things like "as it was written" or to the temple priests "you err not knowing the scripture" so in scripture ..the writings of scripture passages are refered to often ...the prophecies and the law..which Christ said he came to fullfil ...like the isaiah scroll he read from and said "today in your hearing this has been fullfilled "but only the first half speaking of him...while he stopped ...because the next part is yet to be...and its gonna be a doozy !!!
i have a program that lets me search out phrases and words ...like love..or light ..in the bible...ive seen a few good videos on the shroud of turin...ill try to find a link and share it with ya...basically..thinkof all the times "light" is referenced to ..like moses face when he came back off the mountain shined..and Christ when he accended became bright..andwhen he appeared to paul he shined so bright...then watch the vids on the shroud .....like the atomic bombs left shadow figures of objects and people..i really think the shroud is the image slightly burned or etched on the fibers ...when christ returned to his body it shined so bright it left that image on the shroud...im convinced it is the true burial cloth of Christ...ill find some links for ya or just youtube search "shroud of turin"
......grace and peace brother!!
The US still gives the most in charity until that stops I think we have some time before the return of the Lord.
Ron Wyatt found Noah’s Ark, the Red Sea crossing site and the real Mt. Sainai.
Are they still digging ? I would love to see a update on this
They flipped out when the found a tablet with pontius pilate name on it.. They always said pontius pilate was fictional. They said the Syrian empire was fictional. Then they dug it up. So this is one more thing dug up proving the bible has some credible true history. I don't think suddenly anti-Christ are suddenly going to start believing in Christ. But it just shows like I said. Maybe some believers would help their faith.
Calvery called it dirt that covered Soddomn. If Calvery really found Soddomn ,then they would have found Soddomn covered by ash of brimstone aka ,sulfur. What they dug up under DIRT is just one of many cities buried under dirt .
Melted pottery to glass.well..there ya go.
My friend, just start digging into the Word of God; and you might find, in your mind, something very precious.
Yemen is where biblical stories happened. Every place that is mentioned in the Bible exists in Yemen and the same historical stories of Himyarites in south(Jews) and Saba' in north (Israelites) are mentioned in the Bible.
@athiran5856……absolutely incorrect.
Many people still believe that these ancient cities were located on the south end of the Dead Sea. They ain't there my friend's.
But where is the brimstone? I thought there were spheres of sulphur all over the ground.
Also, I thought Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed before 2000 BC, 300 years earlier than you indicated this tell was destroyed. And you say this city was occupied for 3000 years before it was destroyed. That would mean it was continuously occupied since before the Flood and the Tower of Babel. How do you explain these differences with the Biblical timeframe?
Hey wait a minute you said nobody found Noah's Ark a team of scientists found it on Mount Ararat and they walked into it when the snow receipted they identified a boat in the side of the mountain they got permission from Russia to go hiking and exploring and they walked inside of it and took a piece of the wood out they found Noah's Ark why do you say they have not found it? This come from my memory from long ago.
Direction of blast was From Jerusalem it seems
And when Our envoys came to Lot, he was anxious for them, and concerned for them. He said, "This is a dreadful day."
And his people came rushing towards him-they were in the habit of committing sins. He said, "O my people, these are my daughters; they are purer for you. So fear Allah, and do not embarrass me before my guests. Is there not one reasonable man among you?"
They said, "You know well that we have no right to your daughters, and you know well what we want."
He said, "If only I had the strength to stop you, or could rely on some strong support."
They said, "O Lot, we are the envoys of your Lord; they will not reach you. So set out with your family during the cover of the night, and let none of you look back, except for your wife. She will be struck by what will strike them. Their appointed time is the morning. Is not the morning near?"
And when Our command came about, We turned it upside down, and We rained down on it stones of baked clay.
83 Marked from your Lord, and never far from the wrongdoers
What Cha and Verse are you on Bro???
Ron Wyatt and his sons and associates back in the 70s kinda beat you to your claims ...seek out his vids here on youtube
According to Dr.Collins.Sodom Cannot be in the Southern end of Dead Sea - It has to be where Genesis says it is
Well, he actually dug there, extensively if I might add. It’s kind of like finding an old car in the woods and you pass it up and then someone else comes along and tries to start it and it turns over and they take the car. Yes someone else may have discovered it. But they didn’t have the
courage to investigate as he did.
God really hated those f..s!
So ignorant.
i do believe in the bible but, where is all the SULPHUR? also the bible alsy says "nothing grows in there" i do think this may be a city, but not sodom.
Burning rock was translated as sulphur in some bibles. Burning rock could also be something different.
Today we are sodom with technology
Ron Wyatt found Noah’s Ark… And Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 18 and 19 are very much misunderstood
I thought sodom n gomorrah became the dead sea
Mathew 10:14_15
Sodom and Gomorrah
Pompeii and Akrotiri
Revelation 22:16
Jesus Christ EROS Lucifer morningstar
Pompeii Roman earthquake plus volcano mountain Vesuvius erupt end
James 4:7
God Allah Zeus Dionysus Dios goat devil 👿 Greek Akrotiri and acropolis earthquake plus volcano mountain erupt end 😮😅😊
Highly unlikely. The fire and brimstone sent from heaven made the place a desolation as a means of warning those that Sodom was to be completely destroyed and removed nothing coming up in it's place.
Rapture or Second Coming? Those aren't the same
You know when the rapture will occur? Well, now I know you are mental for sure.
the women in sodom they were lesbians?...
Lol, you had awesome evidence to support the biblical account of a meteor impact, but then you took it to a stretch saying that god sent the meteor because sodom was a certain way. At some point you have to realize that those people had no idea what happened, so of course they’re going to come to the conclusion that “god was angry at Sodom for X, Y, and Z”, but that’s not scientific. I’m surprised you haven’t realized the evidence that Jesus was a metaphor for the sun.
@J DV they would create a myth about the sun because what is the most important thing to our species? Being able to grow food based on tracking the sun. The sun provides us light to see, keeps us warm and dies in the winter, food to eat, and heals us. It’s this mysterious ball of energy that moves around in us the sky and dictates our survival. This is a metaphor that was born of pagan origins, but like everything else in christianity, it was squeezed into the overarching story of jesus in order to assimilate pagans into society. The United Church of God admits all of this. Jesus may have been a real person, but 300 years after his death he took on the role of a metaphor for this assimilation. It’s beautiful, and ends up actually making christian symbology and tradition make more sense. How else can a man be dead in a tomb for 3 days and resurrect? Oh, cause on December 21st the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky for 3 days then rises once again (is reborn). And that’s just one example of many that have been pointed out. The thing is, the bible is not linear. There are multiple lessons and stories being overlaid on top of each other. It’s similar to how words work, where one word could have multiple meanings depending on the context you’re using it in. Oh, you want to learn how to live the best way you can? Read the bible like this. Oh, you want to know how to track the sun through the constellations for growing food? Read the bible like this. Oh, you want to know about the historical records of natural disasters? Read the bible like this. Context is everything. Cool isn’t it?
Not a real PHD