This is the eleventh chapter of the manuscript of my book, Atlantis. The other chapters can be found here: https://posts.creation-history.com/s/atlantis.
For more than two thousand years, Christian theologians have debated whether catastrophes and natural disasters are always signs of God’s wrath on humanity for collective wickedness, or only sometimes. In Genesis, we see the Flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as clear examples of God’s judgment upon exceptionally wicked men. But Christ also pointed out that the people who were killed by a tower that collapsed were not more sinful than others. A Christian might also argue that all men deserve to die because of sin, and that those who do not suffer calamities are preserved solely due to God’s mercy and grace.
In the case of the Atlantis myth, there are two versions of the narrative from cultures on opposite sides of the Atlantic, where both agree that the downfall and destruction of Atlantis resulted because the Atlanteans incurred the wrath of the gods.
Plato preserved parts of the Atlantis myth in two of his dialogues, Critias and Timaeus. The shorter account is in Timaeus and merely summarizes the downfall of Atlantis.
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