Was pond of fire not scary enough? Was Ocean of fire too much?
What about a pit of knives and maggots, filled with camel urine? Was that also too much?
2007-02-05 07:48:44 · 8 answers · asked by Sean 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The separation from God for etnernity while finally knowing what He is really like is such a horrible concept that only our worst nightmares were used to describe that pain.
2007-02-05 08:05:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like how you split hairs, that's humorous. They probably weren't anywhere near an ocean and the biggest body of water around was a lake at the time. Who knows? Perhaps the author wasn't an English major and he couldn't think of anything more intriguing or "glamorous" for his "Hell" description.
2007-02-05 15:53:09 · answer #2 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ponds are too small and oceans lead into other oceans and rivers. Lakes are bigger than ponds and don't lead anywhere and they have no currents. I think they did it to scare people, personally. It didn't work on me.
Blessed Be.
2007-02-05 15:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An ocean of fire would have been too much.
They were a small minded people and only knew a tiny part of the world, remember.
2007-02-05 15:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's good symbolic language to describe a black hole where the gravity causes time to slow almost to a stop, and where the temperature is far hotter than a fire actually is.
That's why.
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2007-02-05 15:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was probably call a lake so that more people could relate to it.
2007-02-05 16:24:48 · answer #6 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Ring of Fire" was already written by Johnny Cash
2007-02-05 15:53:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno, good question. why not the sea of fire?
can we fish in this lake? *shrug*
we should ask the almighty meebleplex about this.
2007-02-05 15:54:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋