The Sides of the Pit

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

We (that's me and the Holy spirit) have been working towards the construction of a model of the interior of the Earth which fully integrates every possible way that hell or the afterlife is referred to in the Bible.

The Nether Parts of the Earth

Yesterday we took a detour to slam dunk relativistic time dilation as proof of the Bible. Today we're going back to our discussion of a possible transition in the internal structure of the Earth when tehom became sheol.

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 20th

If you're on a downward course and leave the lower mantle, once you enter the great gulf, there's nothing to stop your fall into the core. This means that the pit refers to everything below the mantle.

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 18th

After the crucifixion Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. He went there to gather the souls of the Old Testament saints who were awaiting his coming.

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.

March 16th

Jonah gives us direct observation of the pillars of the earth. Direct observation is also known as empirical. The pillars of the earth aren't allegorical, metaphorical or theoretical, they're empirical.

March 15th

We (that's me and the Holy spirit) begin a journey to the center of the Earth. We started at the grave, and we now progress deeper into the underworld realm of the dead, Sheol.