Sheol

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

Sheol refers to life beyond the grave, quite literally an underworld realm of the dead. It's also modified in a variety of ways which can be grouped to correspond to the main regions of the interior of the Earth.

Above and Below

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

A recurring theme in scripture is heaven above and Earth below. Orientation occurs for the first time on the second day. It's an ordering of the universe which occurred in response to the creation of gravity.

Graves and Pits

One of the repercussions of the fall of man was the start of nuclear decay. This in turn is the beginning of hell, since the explosive rate of decay, concentrated in the core of the Earth, caused the core to melt.

March 29th

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

We (that's me and the Holy spirit) made an extensive survey of the ways in which the interior of the Earth is described in Old Testament Hebrew, but how's it described in New Testament Greek?

March 19th

If you're skeptical that there's really an underworld realm of the dead you should consider two things: 1. the deepest hole ever drilled is 12 km deep, 2. the Lehmann Discontinuity is at approximately 220 km deep.

March 17th

We illustrate a clear difference between the Hebrew erets (earth), and tebel (world). The foundations of the world (tebel) refers to the crust and mantle which was exposed as the ocean floor.