The primitives who invented the myth of hell created this myth using the most terrifying substance of torture their less developed brains could image...fire.
What if the primitives knew of radiation! Melting into a freakish 3 toed-gorey mess! I think, if our primitive ancestors knew of this terrifying force, they would have created a hell of nuclear radiation where you bloat-up and freakishly contort to death.
2007-03-03 13:39:39 · 8 answers · asked by PragmaticMan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no dear, God described hell perfectly. If He needed to describe a different reality in such terms, He could have. Look at the Bibles description of nuclear war - quite graphic and realistic.
2007-03-03 13:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unless you are subjected to teh immediate blast, you don't feel the effects until the sores, blistering, hair loss and weakness and cramps sit in from radiation sickness (survivormall.com has links). You don't feel "radiation". What the people of the bibical age probably drew on was vulcanism, events such as Santorinin, hellfire and brimstone, lahoes, suffocating gas, people turned to stone, literally, all of that undoubtedly influenced "hell". But I would point out Dante's "Inferno" invented the "hell" most of us recognize today. You can find anything you want in the bible or Nostradamus or William Blake or St. Maliki or anything, depends on how you interpret it. I always thought the "leviathan" in Revelations could be a nuclear sub and the "horns" could be multiple warhead missiles, but that's just my crackpot interpretation. The John who wrote Revelations was a mysterious person who dwelt in a cave and his book was a latter addition to the New Testament. Probably what happens to me after I crash my time machine. Sometimes I think a nice cozy, solitary cave would be an improvement.
2007-03-03 21:56:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is not a myth. It is a real place where torment will be given to those who have earned it.
There will be no death there, no matter how desired it will be. Hell is described very graphically in the Bible.
There will be no melting into freakish anything. A person or entity will be able to know him/itself as him/itself and will know he/it could have easily and very simply escaped the experience he/it is having.
That will make eternity a very, very long and uncomfortable time.
2007-03-03 21:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by CJohn317 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would either be that or a place where Big Brother is broadcast 24 hours a day every day for the rest of eternity.
2007-03-03 21:59:03 · answer #4 · answered by D.F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the myth of the philosopher's stone, a magic rock that turned lead into gold but caused the user's body to rot bears a remarkable resemblance to a specific, rare radioactive isotope we know of today--so yes, your theory is plausible
2007-03-03 21:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are right on that hell is an invention of the ancient pagans.
but i disagree that they were less developed in the brain, somehow they managed to build things like pyramids, Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, without the use of todays modern machinery, you just got to give them props for that.
but, if i were to go along with your line of thought, it be based on the knowledge that radon, which comes from radio-active rocks, would have been concentrated in caves.
2007-03-03 21:45:08 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
really ... so people that believe in spirits think that fire can burn a spirit for eternity ... its not fire as we know it ... they had no word or understanding to describe exactly what it was ... so quit thinking ur a brainiac for figuring it out ,...
2007-03-03 21:43:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no place called hell. but a place called hades and a lake of fire....but no hell. sorry, you are misinformed.
2007-03-03 21:42:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋