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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Mike, to believe is to trust. I don't speculate that a 30 foot high scaffold is put up properly. I make sure it is, before I let others climb it. John is speaking to a Diaspora Judean world located in Asia Minor who understood their own religion, the pagan religions around them, and how the Judeans in Jerusalem absorbed it all, to become first century Jewish myth (book of Enoch) Brother Esaias wrote a lot of good stuff on that subject. You should of read it. But the bottomless pit, the abyss, as described in Homer's Iliad, was lower than the abode of Hades, as the heavens were as far from the earth. Bottomless refers to eternal, never ending, it is totally symbolic, and poetic. Just as the Roman patricians, and Diaspora Judeans understood.
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As usual you wrest what I said. When I said it was a speculation I was obviously referring to THE HOLLOW EARTH THEORY.
I do not speculate whether there is a bottomless pit in the Earth. I believe in it.
If the bottomless pit is lower than Hades that just means it is lower than the grave, Biblically speaking. And its strange if its just "poetic" and "symbolic" that John wrote it was opened and beings who were led by a king come out of it.
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