Question:
Is it not likely that an ordinary volcanic eruption destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah?
Answer:
Not if we believe the record. In the first place, destruction was known to be coming and coming as a judgment of God. Abraham was warned concerning it, so also was Lot, and the words of the angels were, “For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.” “Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven.” Genesis 19:13, 24. We have no more reason to question the record there than we have to question the record concerning the character of Sodom and Gomorrah.
