and the tearing of the veil was specifically to announce this new covenant of faith, where no longer would man need a priest to represent him to god,
That wasn't the point - of the veil.
It meant mankind could be forgiven - whereas once a year a priest would go behind the veil offer up incense and prayers for the ppl. And anyone else would die if they entered.
Christ didnt demolish the priesthood - because all thru the NT -
is the establishment of Christ's priesthood.
Nietzscheiswrong
If S&G is folklore - then every single prophet who used their death and lifestyle were then false prophets?...which would truly remove much of the Bible? Including the words of
Christ and His Apostles? Yes.
The Bible isnt folklore... and thats where many err in these modern atrocities ppl are putting out there. Be prudent and avoid anything that suggests Genesis was folklore.
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Genesis 13:13
And the men of
Sodom were very wicked,
and sinners before the face of the Lord,
beyond measure.
Deuteronomy 29:23
Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein,
after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the
Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
Deuteronomy 32:32
Their vines are of the vineyard of
Sodom,
and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
Isaias (Isaiah) 13:19
And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans,
shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
Isaias (Isaiah) 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and
they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.
Jeremias (Jeremiah) 50:40
As the
Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there,
neither shall the son of man inhabit it.
Jeremias (Jeremiah) 23:14
And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and
they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings: they are all become unto me as
Sodom,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.
Jeremias (Jeremiah) 49:18
As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and
there shall no son of man inhabit it.
Amos 4:11
I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
Sophonias (Zephaniah) 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,
Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.
Lamentations 4:6
Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people
is made greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and hands took nothing in her.
Matthew 10:15
Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
[Christ is speaking above of the FUTURE iniquities...which will be greater than S&G] - we are the future from that time.
Jude 1:7
As
Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.....
[8] In like manner these men
also defile the flesh, and
despise dominion, and
blaspheme majesty. [9] When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil,
contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord
command thee.
[10] But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and
what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.
'Other' flesh is other than nature intended...aka SSA acts they wanted with the angels.
Luke 17:29
And in the day that Lot went out of
Sodom, it rained fire
and brimstone from heaven,
and destroyed them all.
Matthew 11:23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven?
thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee,
perhaps it had remained unto this day.
Romans 1
[21] Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their
foolish heart was darkened.
[22] For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
[23] And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things.
[24] Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart,
unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. [25] Who
changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
[26] For this cause
God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have
changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. [27] And, in like manner, the
men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that
which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the
recompense which was due to their error. [28] And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;
[29] Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,
[30] Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.
[32] Who,
having known the justice of God, did not understand
that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
The reference to death is the soul's death - the second death - hell.
To even suggest S&G is folklore shows precisely the lack of Biblical knowledge.
S&G were examples - throughout history of Judaism. Not because it wasnt real - one cannot hope to accomplish an example from something made up - for even Christ spoke of them as being real.
Be careful how you presume the scriptures to be false.
