I would love to have Vi McCoy (Letters, Herald, July 12) explain how Lot and his family were spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah because they were (according to McCoy) “born-again Christians.” According to McCoy, this assertion “lines up with the King James Bible.”
It is interesting to note that in the King James Bible, the destruction of these two cities (along with three others) occurs in the Book of Genesis – the beginning of the Old Testament. If the biblical timeline is correct, this destruction happened about 1,700 years before the birth of Jesus, making it rather difficult to be a “born-again Christian.”
Archaeological evidence seems to show these frisky heathens met their sulfurous demise some 600 years prior to that. Clearing up this discrepancy will surely go a long way to ensure this great nation will become totally born-again and spare us from the horrible fate of those salty, sodomite scoundrels.
Steve Suess
Durango
