My servant Isaiah has been going around too sexy for YouTube for three years. (Isaiah 20:3) Paraphrased
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
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is one of the most harrowing in the Bible, that is, if it hadn’t been softened by spaghetti theology. It’s a conversation with a man who’s burning in hell.
Continue reading “Hell is Expanding into the Great Gulf”
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
(Luke 16:23, 26) English Standard Version
The space in the interior of the Earth formerly occupied by the great deep is now a great gulf (chasm) of open space that Jesus spoke of in Luke 16:26. The open space is no longer referred to as tehom, it’s now sheol.
Continue reading “Tehom was Wet. Sheol is Dry”
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
(Luke 15:13) ESV
1988 was a pivotal year in our life. We went from life in a small English seaside town to life in a sprawling metropolitan area with a University campus with a population larger than our home town.
Continue reading “1988: The Year Donald Lost His Mind”
Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”
(Luke 10:23-24) NKJV
We have a very flippant attitude towards the “scientific” basis of the Christian establishment. That’s because it’s a half-baked capitulation with popular science (SciPop). It’s nothing personal.
Continue reading “The Things We See”
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
Threatening people with hell isn’t an effective communication technique. You’ll be dismissed as a kook. The problem is, despite the fact that popular science (SciPop) appears to have a compelling rationale for why hell isn’t at the center of the Earth, it’s very easy to demonstrate the weaknesses of this rationale.
Continue reading “The High Price of Epistemological Buffoonery”
But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
(Hebrews 10:39) NKJV
This is a very sad state to be in. Literally soul-destroying. Here perdition is used to refer to people who hear the Word of God, and come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, but they draw back. They quench the Holy Spirit and deny Jesus as savior.
Continue reading “Are You Lost?”
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(Matthew 8:12) KJV
We’re making the case that hell is at the center of the Earth, it’s temporary, and eventually it will be disposed of in the furthest reaches of space referred to in the Bible as outer darkness.
Continue reading “Gnashing of Teeth”
“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
(Luke 16:27-30) NKJV
We’ve reached the end of our trail of deduction for today, and the only conclusion which we can reach is that the rich man is in the molten core of the Earth, the pit. Abraham and Lazarus are in the lower mantle, the midst of hell.
Continue reading “This Place of Torment”
But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
(Luke 16:25-26) NKJV
We’re at a great advantage over the spaghetti theologians because we’ve deduced how the passage from Luke resolves with a physical reality. We don’t regard any part of this parable as being metaphorical or allegorical.
Continue reading “A Great Gulf”
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
(Luke 16:22) NKJV
The first thing we have to account for is Abraham’s bosom. The meaning of this is simple, Lazarus was being consoled by Abraham: Abraham was giving Lazarus a hug. That’s how simple it is.
Continue reading “The Bosom of Abraham”
The Naked Prophet 