Er zijn geen explosies in de Bijbel — en God was niet in het vuur

There are no explosions in the Bible. Gunpowder reached the Mediterranean world more than a thousand years after the last book was written, and Scripture has no word for a blast. What it has instead is a great deal of sudden, loud, terrifying force — and one famous passage arguing that God was not in any of it. The loud things in Scripture Sinai is the loudest. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in…