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#Post#: 1112--------------------------------------------------
Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: September 24, 2018, 8:27 am
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[font=arial].
According to Jesus Christ's testimony as a credible expert
witness in all matters pertaining to the afterlife; most of the
world's responsible souls haven't been making it to safety when
they cross over to the other side.
● Luke 13:22-24 . . And he went through the cities and
villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. Then said
one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said
unto them, strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I
say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
● Matt 7:13-14 . . Enter ye in at the strait gate: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find it.
● Matt 22:14 . . For many are called, but few are chosen.
Webster's defines "many" as consisting of, or amounting to, a
large but indefinite number; while "few" is defined as
consisting of, or amounting to, only a small number; viz:
relative to many then, few is the lesser. Bear with me while I
flesh this out.
According to the US Census Bureau: as of Sep 24, 2018 @ 09:56 am
New York Time, the United States population was approximately
328,656,672 with a death rate of approximately one every 12
seconds; which translates to an average of 7,200 American deaths
of all ages, races, and genders during just one 24-hour calendar
day.
According to 2009 US Census data; roughly 27.3% of America's
daily deaths are under the age of 19, which would indicate that
approximately 5,234 of the current daily death rate per 24 hours
are adults.
Giving the "many" the benefit of the doubt by limiting their
maximum percentage to 51%, would indicate a minimum of 2,669
American adults transferring to perdition every day: which
translates to roughly 111 per hour.
That's a conservative estimate as Christ didn't really specify
exact percentages to represent the quantities of "few" and
"many". But just think: by the time CBS completes its half hour
evening news report, a bare-bones minimum of 55 Americans become
new arrivals in the fiery sector of the netherworld.
Using the ratio of 2,669 condemned souls per 328,656,672
population: extrapolating the number of condemned souls
worldwide from a currently estimated global population of
7,501,122,972 people, would suggest something like 60,916 new
arrivals in the fiery sector of the netherworld every 24 hours;
which translates to approximately 2,538 global arrivals every
sixty minutes on the clock.
That rate would fill Yankee Stadium's 51,800 seats to capacity
in roughly 20 hours and 24 minutes. In other words: if the
world's daily number of condemned souls started filing into the
stadium at 06:00 am this morning, then by 02:24 am tomorrow, the
stadium would be full to capacity.
Christmas and New Year are even worse. A study done of 26 years
of death certificates shows that coronary fatalities are, on
average, 11.9% higher on those days than any other days of the
year; with non-heart deaths spiking to 12.2% higher.
The hell I'm describing never closes; no, not at all: it's open
for business 24/7/365 nonstop and indifferent to global warming,
Wall Street crashes, massive layoffs, outsourcing, tariffs,
school shootings, terrorism, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes,
storm surges, nuclear meltdowns, air, water, and soil pollution,
a mission to Mars, freeway pile-ups, brown-outs, threatened
species, the price of oil, drug cartels, LGBT marriage, student
debt, GMO, trade deficits, Obamacare, protests, North Korean
nukes, Federal debt, factory recalls, overpopulation,
desertification, genocides, revolutions, civil wars, acid rain,
road rage, oil spills, conscious decoupling, ISIS, blood
diamonds, fracking, twerking, and/or President Donald Trump's
tweets.
If classical Christianity's perception of Jesus Christ and the
hereafter is correct; then it's apparent that people never stop
cascading into the netherworld's dungeons in an endless
procession like the unbelievable millions of poultry broilers
passing annually through Tyson chicken-processing plants on
their way to Wendy's, McDonalds, Carl's Junior, Jack in the Box,
Burger King, Chic-fil-A, KFC, A&W, Arby's, Dairy Queen, Taco
Bell, et al; and to supermarkets and restaurants all over the
USA and wherever else Tyson vends its meats. The slaughtering
and the butchering never stop.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: September 26, 2018, 8:59 am
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[font=arial].
Through me; the way to the eternal city.
Through me; the way to eternal sadness.
Through me; the way to lost people.
Justice moved my supreme maker:
I was shaped by divine power,
By highest wisdom, and by primal love.
Before me, nothing was created
That is not eternal: and eternally I endure.
Abandon all hope, you that enter here.[/font]
[font=verdana]The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Inferno: canto 3, v.1-9[/font]
[font=arial]Dante's poetic epic is called a comedy because it
has a happy ending as opposed to a tragedy; at least for Dante
anyway. The souls he and Virgil pass along the way through the
Inferno portion of Dante's odyssey will never, nor anon, have a
happy ending; hence the sign above the entrance to his
netherworld: "Abandon all hope, you that enter here."
Webster's defines "despair' as: to no longer have any hope or
belief that a situation will improve or change. Well; down in
the Inferno section of Dante's concept, despair is a way of
life.
One of the hardest concepts to get across is the despair that
people in hell must feel in knowing that their situation is a
sealed fate with no hope of relief. Dante's odyssey, though of
course fiction, is useful for that purpose; especially when it's
accompanied by illustrations painted by Gustave Doré.
Jesus warned people that they'd be better off facing eternity
with their hands and their feet amputated, and their eyes gouged
out, then to end up in a hell he called geena; a much worse
place than haides. So in my estimation, Dante's descriptions,
and Gustave's paintings, though disturbing enough in themselves,
aren't sufficient to impress just how terrible the ultimate hell
really is.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 2 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 121,832 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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#Post#: 1207--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: September 28, 2018, 9:27 am
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[font=arial].
People have been filtering into perdition not only since the
time of Christ, but since before the Step Pyramid of Djoser, and
even before the Flood. I won't speculate how many years that
might be, but h.sapiens is thought by some to have achieved full
behavioral modernity something like 50,000 years ago. (There's
new findings suggesting that human existence goes as far back as
150-300,000 years) Anyway; whether that extends clear on back to
Adam and Eve I have no clue; but just think: if it does, then
Cain and others from his era have been down in the netherworld
all this time.
It's difficult for the human mind to appreciate 50,000 years let
alone 300,000. I've been on the Earth for just 74, and I've
noticed that my childhood is so far in the past to me now as to
seem more like a fantasy than a memory. But you know; when
you're talking about eternity, 50,000 years isn't even a drop in
the bucket. If it were a drop in the bucket, it would be a
bucket with no bottom; which is roughly akin to the futility of
a gnat attempting to drink up the Atlantic ocean.
But just think: time stands still in hell: it's for the now;
it's an existence. People who arrived there yesterday didn't
begin doing time in jail like Lindsay Lohan expecting to get out
some day; nor is perdition a temporary tour of duty like
shipping out to Afghanistan. No, people in hell are in it as
perpetual residents; they're in a rut.
They go year, after year, after year, after year, with no relief
from the discomfort: no vacations, no recreation, no reading
materials, and no hobbies-- there's absolutely nothing to do but
reminisce. The mental atrophy, and the boredom that must result
from that kind of mindless existence is beyond estimation.
In life, everybody enjoys God's blessings; even the really bad
people. We're all breathing fresh air, basking in sunshine,
drinking cool water, savoring tasty foods, listening to birds
chirp, star gazing at night, throwing snow balls at each other
in winter, river rafting, fishing, snow skiing, tending gardens,
pruning shrubs, greeting friends during the holidays, spending
days with grandkids; and all that sort of thing. In the Bible's
hell, there are no blessings of any kind at all: only perpetual
sadness, vexation, despair, and want.
In hell's unruly society; it's reasonable to expect quarrels,
bickering, hard feelings, vendettas, rivalry, selfishness,
insensitivity, irritation, aggravation, and ugly words exchanged
between people. Is there really any good reason to be courteous
and/or respect your fellow man's human rights in the Bible's
hell; or to be kind, forgiving, affable, genial, courteous,
cordial, charitable, altruistic, tolerant, generous, and
patient? I was once discussing the netherworld with a co-worker
and he remarked: "Hell won't be so bad; I'll have plenty of
friends down there". Yes, he probably will have lots of friends
in hell; but I really don't think he should count on them being
friendly.
And the din: think of the volume of noise down there with all
the wailing and sobbing, and the screams, shrieks, yelps, howls,
and gnashing teeth. I can only imagine how annoying it must be
in hell with its thousands and millions of people making all
that kind of racket.
But just imagine bringing with you a craving for tobacco with
none available. Or longing for a cocktail with no liquor in
sight. A desire for music, with no way to produce it. A skill
for writing, with no pen and paper. Yearning for a walk out in
nature, with no world to do it in.
People in hell will never again smell a sea breeze, sit in the
shade of a tree, take deep breaths of mountain-fresh air, play
at sports, hear a bird chirp, see a sunset, watch a lunar
eclipse, jog in the park, strum a guitar, enjoy a Christmas
dinner with loved ones; nor make little pigs of themselves
gobbling barbecued spare ribs and corn on the 4th of July.
Sports and recreation are gone: no more World Series, no more
Super Bowl, no more Olympics, no more Las Vegas, no more Indian
casinos, no more lottery, no more Lego World, no more Sea World,
no more NASCAR, no more golf, no more surfing, et al.
No baths, no showers, no sleep, no TV, no radio, no iPods, no
computers, no Twitter, no texting, no FaceBook, no Instagram, no
YouTube, no MySpace, no internet, no clean sheets, no breakfast,
no lunch, and no dinner. No snacks, no gum, no candy, no
flowers, no parks, no rivers, no snow, no seasons, no picnics,
no malls, no fast food, no trades, no careers, no trendy
fashions, no jewelry, no cosmetics, no concerts, no operas, and
no hobbies; absolutely nothing of this world that brings people
the pleasures and the satisfactions of just being alive.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 4 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 243,664 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: September 30, 2018, 12:36 pm
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[font=arial].
● Jonah 1:17 . . Jonah was in the belly of a fish for
three days and three nights
[B]Q:[/B] Was Jonah alive in the fish?
[B]A:[/B] Yes. (Jonah 2:1)
[B]Q:[/B] The whole time?
[B]A:[/B] No.
At some point in his nautical adventure Jonah went to a place
called sheol (Jonah 2:2) which he sited at the bottoms of the
mountains. (Jonah 2:6)
Well; the bottoms of the mountains aren't located in the tummies
of fish, no; they're located down deep in the earth. So, the
only way that Jonah could possibly be at the bottoms of the
mountains while in the belly of a fish at the same time was for
the man and his body to part company and go their separate ways.
Just before being cast ashore, Jonah prayed thus:
● Jonah 2:6 . .To the bottoms of the mountains I went
down. As for the earth, its bars were upon me for time
indefinite. But out of the pit you proceeded to bring up my
life, O Jehovah my God.
The Hebrew word for "pit" in that verse is the very same word
for pit in Ps 16:8-10; which Acts 2:25-31 verifies is speaking
of putrefaction. In other words: Jonah 2:6 tells of Jonah's
resurrection. (There's reason to believe that Jonah was already
dead from drowning in the sea's depths before the fish showed up
to swallow him.)
Christ underwent the very same afterlife experience as Jonah's.
The only real difference between the two was that Christ's grave
was in a rock while Jonah's grave was in a fish.
The key points in their experiences are that both were dead,
both went to the bottoms of the mountains while their corpse
reposed in a grave, and both were resurrected within three days
and three nights. (Matt 12:40)
[B]Q:[/B] What does the story of Jonah have to do with hell?
[B]A:[/B] It's widely believed that when people die they cease
to exist. Well; were that belief a fact; then Jesus would've
ceased to exist when he passed away on the cross. As a result:
he would not have been resurrected back to life, instead, Jesus
would've been created back to life. Jonah's experience proves
that Jesus continued to exist out of body when he pass away; and
if he and Jonah did, then everyone else does too.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 6 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 365,496 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 3, 2018, 7:48 am
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● Ps 146:3-4 . . Put not your trust in princes, nor in the
son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he
returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Some people honestly believe the passage above teaches that
people cease to exist when they pass away; but were their belief
true, then Christ would've ceased to exist when he passed away
on the cross and in order to restore the Lord's body back to
life, it would've been necessary to create him back to
existence. No; I'm pretty sure it's saying something very
different. Here's a much better way to say it.
"When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a
moment all their plans come to an end."
Consider all those people who perished in the World Trade
Center, in the Japan and Indonesia tsunamis, and the Haiti
earthquake. None of them woke that day planning on it being
their last on earth. No, on the contrary; they had people to
see, places to go, and things to do: but before the day ended;
whatever was on their minds lost its importance-- their
priorities went right out the window and became no more
significant than green cheese on the moon.
All their plans, their dreams, their schedules, their
appointments, their schemes, their problems, their aspirations,
and their loves went right down the tubes as they were suddenly
confronted with a whole new reality to cope with.
While preparing for a new world tour, Michael Jackson died in
his sleep. As a result; his tour wrapped on the spot.
When my eldest nephew was paroled from prison; he quit drinking,
and began going to college with the goal towards becoming a
counselor. For 2˝ years all went well. His parole officer was
happy, and my nephew was on track and getting good grades. His
future looked assured. And then on the morning of Sept 25, 2015,
he dropped dead to the floor of natural causes. As a result; his
college education, and his hope to become a counselor, dropped
dead to the floor right with him.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 9 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 548,244 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 5, 2018, 7:06 am
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[font=arial].
Here in America, even the worst among the worst have the right
to a lawyer, and if they can't afford one, the system will
appoint a public defender for them.
But in hell; people are abandoned. For example: the names of
Abraham and Lazarus are given in Luke 16:19-31, but the rich
man's name isn't given. He's a forgotten man; but not me.
● Rom 8:33-34 . . Who will bring any charge against those
whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that
condemns? Christ Jesus who died? More than that, who was raised
to life; who is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us?
Thanks to Christ, I won't have to stand before God alone; but
that nameless rich man? He will.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 11 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 670,076 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 7, 2018, 8:47 am
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[font=arial].
Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall,
stealing through the dark of the night.
Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor
checking to the left and the right.
Picking up the pieces, putting them away;
something doesn't feel quite right.
Help me someone, let me out of here.
Then out of the dark was suddenly heard:
Welcome to the Home by the Sea
Coming out the woodwork, through the open door,
pushing from above and below.
Shadows with no substance, in the shape of men;
round and down and sideways they go.
Adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair
then as one they sigh and they moan:
Help us someone, let us out of here.
Living here so long undisturbed,
dreaming of the time we were free
so many years ago
before the time when we first heard:
Welcome to the Home by the Sea
Sit down . . Sit down
As we relive our lives in what we tell you
Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
things that go to make up a life.
Endless days of summer, longer nights of gloom
waiting for the morning light.
Scenes of unimportance, photos in a frame
things that go to make up a life.
Sit down . . Sit down
Cause you won't get away,
no; with us you will stay
for the rest of your days.
So sit down as we relive our lives in what we tell you.
Let us relive our lives in what we tell you.
Home By The Sea
Genesis, 1983
Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford
The lyrics of that song are useful for depicting how one of the
few thing that some people have to do down in the netherworld to
help pass the time is tell each other about their previous
lives. There is, of course, nothing to tell about their lives
down there since the colloquialism "get a life" is a non
sequitur in that place. Nobody has a life; nor any hope of
getting one.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 13 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 791,908 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 9, 2018, 10:14 am
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[font=arial].
Saturday, June 27, 2010, a 6-month-old baby girl was killed and
her mother seriously injured when the pair were struck by a
falling tree branch in New York City's Central Park Zoo. The
girl's father was taking their picture near the sea lion exhibit
when a branch above them suddenly snapped off and fell.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007; nineteen year-old Ramiro Gonzalez was
returning home to Nyssa Oregon from a week-end honeymoon in
northern California with his bride Idalia asleep in the back
seat when their 1997 Pontiac Grand Am hit a cow twenty miles
east of Burns. The Pontiac went off the road, through a fence,
and burst into flames. Idalia escaped with only minor injuries,
but Ramiro died at the Ste. Charles Medical Center in Bend the
very next day.
Ramiro and his bride didn't get to live in a home of their own
for even one single minute of their marriage-- never had a baby,
never joined the PTA, never saved for college, never went to
ballet lessons, nor to soccer or little league, never went on
family picnics, never took home movies and photos at Christmas,
Easter, or birthdays, never went to the beach and built sand
castles --no, their entire future, and all their dreams of
family life, were shattered in an instant by a lame-brained
bovine; and Ramiro wasn't even 20 years old yet. He could've
lived another fifty years.
March 20, 2008; fifty-seven year old Judy Kay Zagorski, of
Pigeon, Michigan, was sitting in the front seat of her father's
boat going 25 knots on the Atlantic Ocean side of Vaca Key in
Florida, when a Spotted Eagle Ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6
feet; leaped up out of the water-- for who knows what reason
--and collided with Zagorski, knocking her backwards onto the
deck of the boat. She died from the impact. Judy's sister,
standing next to her, wasn't injured.
On a November morning in 1998, Alan Pakula climbed into his
Volvo station wagon and began the 100-mile drive from Manhattan
to his Long Island house. The acclaimed movie director of
Sophie's Choice, All The President's Men, and The Pelican Brief,
had made that trip countless times with no incident.
As the 70 year-old Pakula neared exit 49 on the Long Island
Expressway just before noon, the tires of a vehicle ahead of him
flipped a 7-foot piece of steel rod into the air. Within
seconds, the rod shot through Pakula's windshield, smashing into
his forehead, killing him almost instantly.
Death often comes when people least expect it. As a rule, they
don't usually get up in the morning planning it to be their last
day on earth. The 169,752 killed, and 127,294 listed as missing
in more than eleven countries by the tsunami of 2004, were taken
by surprise, and given no warning it was to be their last day on
earth.
The 2,829 people who perished in a terrorist attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the 189 who died in the
Pentagon, didn't go in to work expecting their lives to end
before lunch that day. No, people's lives often end while they
still have obligations and commitments, aspirations, things to
do, places to go, and people to see; when a car accident, train
wreck, act of nature, plane crash, crime, heart attack, or
stroke puts an abrupt end to every plan they ever made.
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake struck Port au Prince
Haiti right out of the blue subsequently causing the loss of
more than 200,000 lives. A similar act of nature on March 11,
2011, left 25,000 dead and/or missing in Japan.
Okeechobee woman Dawn Johnston, 38, was killed Wednesday June
30, 2010 after part of a portable toilet crashed through her
car's windshield. Dawn was driving south on SR 15 shortly after
11 a.m. when two portable toilets fell from the trailer of a
pickup truck traveling north,. The portable toilets shattered
when they hit the road, and a piece of one of them crashed
through the woman's windshield, striking her. Johnston's car
then veered off the road and collided with a tree.
A rain-saturated hillside above the Stillaguamish River on the
outskirts of the rural town of Oso in the State of Washington
gave way March 22, 2014 leaving behind a current death toll of
41 souls. The landslide happened to suddenly and so rapidly that
nobody saw it coming and/or had the slightest chance of getting
out of the way. Listed among the dead and missing was a
four-month old infant.
Freak incidents like those listed above can happen to anybody in
the form of a stray bullet from a drive-by, lightening strike,
gas explosion, choking on a piece of meat, electrocution,
earthquake, a drunk driver, a fall in the bath tub; bricks
dropped from an overpass, a school shooting, or any number of
out-of-the-blue surprises.
Because of the uncertainty of tomorrow, people need to start
thinking about the afterlife today, while they have the chance;
rather than risk being caught off guard by sudden death when
there will be no time to think; and they find themselves
suddenly thrust into the unseen world quite by surprise.
● Ecc 9:12 . . No man knows when his hour will come: as
fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare,
so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon
them.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 15 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 913,740 new arrivals have checked into the fiery
sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 11, 2018, 11:44 am
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According to Matt 10:28, the body and the soul are perishable.
However; though the body is perishable by any means, the soul is
perishable only by divine means; i.e. the deaths of body and
soul aren't necessarily simultaneous, viz: the soul lives on
until such a time as God decides to give it either a thumb up or
a thumb down.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 17 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 1,035,572 new arrivals have checked into the
fiery sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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Re: Hell's Population Clock
By: Olde Tymer Date: October 13, 2018, 6:53 am
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● Mark 9:47-48 . . If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it
out. It is better to enter the kingdom of God half blind than to
have two eyes and be thrown into hell; where the worm never dies
and the fire never goes out.
The "hell" in that passage is a different Greek word than the
"hell" of Luke 16:19-31. That one is haides (hah'-dace) which is
an afterlife sphere where all the dead go; both the good dead
and the bad dead regardless of age, race, color, gender or
religious preference. This word here in Mark is geena
(gheh'-en-nah) which is where only the bad dead will end up some
day: likely the lake of brimstone depicted at Rev 20:11-15
Anyway; Christ's instructions didn't reveal anything new. He
simply reiterated information that had already been released by
an Old Testament prophet roughly 700 years before.
● Isa 66:22-24 . . From one New Moon to another and from
one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down
before me-- speaks the Lord. And they will go out and look upon
the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me: their worm
will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be
loathsome to all mankind.
That rather ghastly scene depicts a sort of tourist attraction
similar to the La Brea Tar Pits museum in Los Angeles where the
remains of prehistoric creatures, excavated from ancient asphalt
deposits, are on display.
A worm that thrives in flame is pretty amazing, but not
unreasonable. The 4-inch Pompeii worm lives in sea water
temperatures of 176° Fahrenheit; hot enough to kill salmonella
and sanitize an egg. So I guess if God could create a worm like
the Pompeii, it shouldn't be too difficult for Him to create
worms that like it even warmer.
[B]Q:[/B] The human body is organic. So then, how can it survive
in flame as perpetual nourishment for those worms?
[B]A:[/B] The laws of nature are not absolute. They were created
in the first chapter of Genesis to control the behavior of
created matter, and as such are easily manipulated by the one
who designed them.
For example: fire totally incinerated the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah but left unscathed a desert shrub that Moses
encountered in the Sinai outback while tending his
father-in-law's sheep. (Ex 3:1-3)
Compare Dan 3:8-27 where a blistering hot fire didn't even so
much as singe the clothing of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego
while slaying the guards that threw them in the furnace.
[B]Q:[/B] Won't the worms eventually exhaust their food supply?
[B]A:[/B] There are incidents in the Bible where small amounts
of food stuffs were miraculously multiplied. One example is 1Kgs
17:8-16 where a tiny bit of flour and oil nourished Elijah and a
widow woman, and her son, for a good many days during a time of
prolonged drought.
Another incident is at 2Kgs 4:1-7 where a certain widow's
husband died and left her deeply in debt. God multiplied her
last pot of oil sufficiently to sell enough to pay off her
debts, thereby saving her two sons from slavery.
No; I'm pretty sure those worms won't need to worry about
running out of human remains with which to sustain themselves.
POP CLOCK UPDATE: 19 days have elapsed since beginning the
thread. If the figures in post #1 are in the ball park, then
something like 1,157,404 new arrivals have checked into the
fiery sector of hades since Sept 24, 2018.
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