[Mid-ocean rifts are actually gateways to hell...]
In the Gospel of Mark Jesus specifically quoted the prophet Isaiah on hell. He describes hell as a place of torment “where their worm will never die.” Scientists have recently discovered giant tube worms that reside over a mile deep on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers (lava vents). These worms can tolerate extremely high temperatures and they actually feed on sulfur, which is another name for brimstone. This information becomes even more disturbing when you realize where the Bible claims hell is located.
"Hell from beneath" - Isaiah 14
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It's important to note that tube worms actually do die, they don't technically eat sulphur and you are a delusional muppet.
Seriously, how dare you reduce an incredibly diverse, complex and fascinating ecosystem to a bullshit justification of your insane beliefs.
Isaiah wasn't talking about Hell.
Isaiah 66:24 is talking about a heap of dead bodies displayed openly on the Earth for other (living) people to see. God, according to Isaiah, is going to make the corpses of those who rebelled against Him never decompose, so that they will be "a sign for all time."
Later apologists, of course, had their own ideas....
Tubeworms aren't like earthworms. At all. They also don't come anywhere close to living forever due to predation, the vents petering out or their own lifespan coming to an end.
And while brimstone is made of sulfur, sulfur isn't always brimstone. It does come in a gaseous form, too.
@tracer: Wait, what? I thought that the belief was that only the bodies of sinners decomposed and that the bodies of saints would be automatically preserved. I'm so confused...
Half the time the Biblical Hell is the Greek 'hel', the shadowy underworld land of the afterlife, that all go to, virtuous and wicked alike.
@ #1112198 :
The Old Testament God preserved anybody's corpse he wanted to, for any damned reason he pleased. Wanna make sure you get raised from the dead on Judgement Day? Better have your body buried without defilement, or there won't be a "you" to raise! Piss off Yahweh? He'll make an example of you by giving you a never-rotting corpse!
That's just the kind of wacky deity ol' YHWH is!
Yama the Space Fish wrote:
"I thought worm was an archaic word for dragon." That's "wyrm", with a "y". ;-)
The Isaiah passage he talks about is pretty clear: The worms in question are the kind of worms that eat a decomposing corpse. In Isaiah's vision, they never died out, because the corpses lasted eternally.
what kind of person is so bored in their life that they've got nothing better to do than make up this shit.
Then again my life is so boring I have nothing better to do than to mock it, so I guess I really can't talk.
Actually, sulfur is an element. Brimstone is another name for sulfur.
Also, you're officially an idiot.
Heaven wasn't TECHNICALLY in the sky!
Hell isn't REALLY in the center of the earth, we weren't serious!
Hell wasn't REALLY at the bottom of the ocean, we weren't serious!
Now, if you'll look at these underlined bible passages, you can clearly see that Hell is located within a bottle of Jack Daniels on Pluto.
And another thing; black smokers are not "lava vents", they are hydrothermal vents. Can't you people pick up a book or something, you know, other than your grim fairy tales?
Clearly another example of the reliable sources on the "internet at large" that Shlafly holds so dear.
LOL!!! I just can't get over the fact that these people actually, literally believe that Hell is a real place down under the ground. I mean, Heaven is somewhere way up in space, and Hell, the Hell for the entire universe, just happens to be located inside our tiny little planet.
I expected to see the claim that oil well diggers heard sounds of hell & smelled sulfur coming from a well they dug.
1. Jesus is quoted as quoting some other ignorant lunatic named Isaiah on his empty threats about Hell. Isaiah mentions worms.
1-a. Isaiah is automatically right because Jesus allegedly quoted him.
2. "Scientists" find a deep sea creature living in hot water that has "worm" in its name.
2-a. These are automatically the same creatures referred to by Isaiah because Captain Nemo had a time machine in his bathtub and gave Isaiah a submarine ride.
3. Incoherent babbling about Sulfur and brimstone.
4. ?
5. Therefore, Hell is in the ocean and that's why meat saws have no leaves.
Did I get that right?
Let's see...
Santa's leading flying reindeer, Rudolph, has a red nose, right? Well, the other night I saw a red dot moving across the sky. And the rest of the sky was pitch black, which is also a color of coal. This conclusively proves that not only Santa is real, but that he also delivers coal to naughty boys and girls.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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