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.

Bars, Beams and Pillars

Cutaway Earth with molten hell at the center, after Peleg's tectonics and radial shrinkage

Four different Biblical phrases refer to a feature of the internal structure of the Earth. They confirm our hypothesis that the interior of the Earth was tehom before Noah's flood, and sheol after it.

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.

July 18th

There's no age of accountability in the Bible. Children aren't innocent up until a certain age. The right to a legal safe abortion should be guaranteed, but each one carries with it the loss of a soul. Then we have it on our conscience.

July 16th

Perdition can be translated "ruin." Perdition is a nuanced kind of destruction with eternal consequences. It’s not the end of something, as if it disappears. It’s the end of what could have been.

July 14th

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

We (that's me and the Holy spirit) have a model of the internal structure of the Earth which shows us how the various ways that hell is referred to describe a complex underworld which is congruent with all physical evidence.

July 13th

Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. We can resolve this as being a place in the lower mantle, we euphemistically call it Abraham's bosom, the same location that he described in Luke 16.

Job 17

Part two of Job's response to Eliphaz's second speech. Job is continuing his outspoken yet internal dialogue with God, speaking about his friends not to them. He's starting to sound like Gollum/Smeagol. v.4 Job accuses God of hiding their hearts from understanding. v.6 Job says that he has become a byword. This means that people …