A traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. – Charles Darwin
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(Luke 16:23) KJV
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The New Testament (Greek) references to hell and the interior of the earth are in harmony with the spherical hollow earth model (SHEM) which we have constructed from the Old Testament (Hebrew).
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
(Ezekiel 32:21) KJV
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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 approximately 220 km deep.
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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
(Psalms 18:15) KJV
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| Usage | Concept | Transliteration | Scripture |
| Greek | |||
| Foundation of the world (singular) | Conception | katabolé | Mat. 13:35 Rev. 13:8 |
| Hebrew | |||
| Foundation(s) of the earth | Gravitational singularity | yasad erets | Is. 48:3 |
| mowcadah erets | Is. 24:18 Jer. 31:37 | ||
| Foundations of the world (plural) | Mantle | mowcadah har | Deu. 32:22 Ps. 18:7 |
| mowcadah tebel | 2 Sa. 22:16 Ps. 18:15 |
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.
| Usage | Hebrew | Transliteration | Scripture |
| bottoms of the mountains | לְקִצְבֵ֤י הָרִים֙ | qetseb har | Jonah 2:6 |
| foundations of the hills | וּמוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים | mowcadah har | Psalms 18:7 |
| foundations of the mountains | וּמוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים | mowcadah har | Deut. 32:22 |
| foundations of the world | מוֹסְד֪וֹת תֵּ֫בֵ֥ל | mowcadah tebel | Psalms 18:15 |
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
(Genesis 3:23) KJV
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| Level | Grave (sheol) | Earth (erets) | World (tebel) |
| Crust | sheol | erets | tebel |
| Mantle | mibbeten sheol tavek sheol | tachti erets erets tachti | mowcadah tebel |
| Great Gulf | bad sheol | erets beriach matsuq erets mayim tachath erets | |
| Core | sheol tachti | mowcadar erets |
The Hebrews had a well developed idea of life after death. For them death, the grave, was a portal into a complex underworld realm. The grave is just the beginning of what happens next.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
(Genesis 2:8) KJV
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Devolution is the process of genetic change over time by which the animals saved on Noah’s ark gave rise to the distribution of current biodiversity.
The probability that four habits evolved in 620 plant families is a number too big to display in Google Sheets. The probability that four habits were created with 620 flower types is not that big. Occam’s razor that.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
(Genesis 2:5-6) KJV
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On the 3rd day there was no rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground. On the 6th day there was a man in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it, logically there was also rain.
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Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
(Daniel 2:35) KJV
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When we consider the similarities between the 3rd day and the Millennial Kingdom we should realize that, if flat earth is Biblical, then maps of the supposed flat earth should have Jerusalem at the center. They don’t.
To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
(Psalms 136:6) KJV
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On the 3rd day the dry land was stretched out above the waters of the deep in a manner which may be visualized as a potter making a hollow vessel out of a solid lump of clay.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
(Psalms 42:7) KJV
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Why were there no Cherubim or flaming swords necessary on the North, West and South of Eden? Eden was surrounded on three sides by unscalable cliffs over which four rivers flowed as waterfalls.
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
(Proverbs 8:26) KJV
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We have closed the loop on the idea that the topography of the dry land on the 3rd day was a mountain that filled the whole earth. The summit: Eden. We are also beginning to deduce earth’s original hydrological cycle.
