[Sherman Logan]

Surely if God wanted revenge on the Romans, he’d have destroyed Rome, not Pompeii.

Maybe his aim was off a couple hundred miles.

Since the Romans destroyed Jerusalem as agents of God, it seems a little strange for him to revenge himself on them for doing so.

[Pharmboy]

BOTH points that you gentlemen raise have occurred to me, thus I think they are great points.( ;-D Thanks for raising...perhaps some FR scholars can weigh in here.

[Goldsborough]

Additionally why would someone who could target the first born sons of Egypt use such an imprecise instrumentality as a volcano to punish those marked for death? There might have been some Christians in Pompeii in 73 CE.

I know, I know, cue the mysteriousness of it all. . . .When a volcano kills the Romans, God might have been wrathful. When an earthquake flattens an apartment building in California, killing 16, no one blames it on the wrath of God. Curious.