We’ve developed a model of the interior of the Earth based on the Word of God, and an understanding of cause and effect, which has levels of hell and accounts for an assortment of references to physical structures of the Earth.
The model has regions which correspond to the crust, mantle, great chasm or gulf (outer core) and core (inner core).
Biblical Features of the Great Chasm
Usage | Transliteration | Scripture |
Bars of the earth | erets beriach | Jonah 2:6 |
Bars of the pit | bad sheol | Job 17:16 |
Beams of his chambers | qarah mayim aliyyah | Psalms 104:3 |
Great deep, depths | tehom | Proverbs 8:24 |
Great chasm/gulf | chasma mega | Luke 16:26 |
Pillars of the earth | matsuq erets | 1 Samuel 2:8 |
Waters under the earth | mayim tachath erets | Deuteronomy 5:8 |