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Fire and brimstone (Biblical Hebrew: גָּפְרִית וָאֵשׁ gofrīt wāʾēš; Ancient Greek: πῦρ καὶ θεῖον) is an idiomatic expression referring to God's wrath found in both the Old and New Testaments. In the Bible, it often appears in reference to the fate of the unfaithful.
So, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were only half the story: the folk of Admah and Zeboiim also felt God’s fire and brimstone, or divine punishment. But their ‘sin’ (or sins) were not limited to homosexuality.
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; Does this passage suggest that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were struck by a natural disaster such as a volcanic eruption?
Apr 5, 2023 · This celestial realm is a place of pure rationality, where perfect qualities such as equality and beauty—the “essence of true existence”—are located. The body, on the other hand, is essentially a prison preventing the soul from accessing that better realm.
Nov 21, 2018 · A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an astonishing find: a reference to a Great Flood story...
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Sep 27, 2021 · Flashing through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground. The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly.
Feb 5, 2013 · A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed...
