I have no doubt that this will gender imaginations, if not replies to the order of "Well!...that's pretty darn well stretching things a bit isn't it?". The point is that these words & ideas that I am including here did *Not* come from my mind, but from the minds of world famous men in the fields of Mathematics & Cosmology.The question one should ask themself is "How did Jesus Christ imagine these things in so specific detail almost 2000 years ago?"
Was it coincidence?......or was it not?
Christians have been trying to explain to people over and over again that there is TOO MUCH in the bible that parallels things that science has learned....for it to be mere coincidence.
But as in the words of Jesus Christ Himself, even if one rose from the dead to tell you these things....you still wouldn't believe.
Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one
rose from the dead.Jesus told us about hell. He told us in descriptions of the pain and despair that those who were consigned there went through, and He told us through narratives about people who were actually present in that place.
He described to us the eternal nature of hell, and that there was no escaping it..... I cannot think of how He could have been much plainer, "hell" is a real place, and it is a terrible, terrible place that no sane person could even begin to desire.
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him
hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."No!....that is cruel! God is not cruel, at least my God isn't".
I can hear the cries already....the cries of those who have judged God and found Him guilty of cruelty; Guilty of viscious acts of torment, and of evil unbound.
Maybe it's so! Maybe God is cruel! Maybe that doesn't make any sense at all to you! That doesn't matter one single bit.
The thing that any sane person would ask is: "What if it is true?" What if there is a God, an omnipotent eternal being who really does have the power to consign my immortal soul to hell for all eternity?.....what if it *Is* true?
The answer is simple....It doesn't make any difference what you think about God's character; about His attitude; about His so-called...."cruelty". IF THESE THINGS ACTUALLY BE TRUE, THEN YOU HAVE THE CHOICE BETWEEN AN ETERNITY IN ONE PLACE.....OR AN ETERNITY IN........SOME OTHER PLACE THAT THE BIBLE CALLS HELL.
Before I go on to those things that scientists tell us about certain things, let me refresh your minds about what the bible says.... PLEASE, don't simply take this as just another case off bible thumping......take the time to look at the verse and see what it is saying. I promise you that as soon as the next verse is done that the discussion will turn to more scientific realms.....Thank you.
Luke 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is
a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence
to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would
come] from thence.I've just brought home the October 1993 issue of "Discover" magazine with an article in it by Stephen Hawkings about Black Holes. Stephen Hawkings is the most famous cosmologist alive in the world today. He is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, but you may have most recently seen him in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation as he played Poker with Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and explained cosmic mysteries to Data. Like many of us Stephen Hawkings is also a "Trekkie".
In the article a quote from Kip Thorne, a noted Caltech Physicist goes:
"Of all the conceptions of the human mind, from unicorns to gargoyles to the hydrogen bomb, perhaps the most fantastic is the black hole---a hole in space with a definite edge over which anything can fall and nothing can escape; a hole with a gravitational field so strong that even light is caught and held in it's grip; a hole that curves space and warps time."
The next paragraph begins....
"Of the entrance to a black hole, Hawkings says, ""One might say what Dante said of the entrance to hell; `Abandon all hope, ye who enter here'"""
Here are some other quotations concerning black holes and their relatives called "Remnants" and "Cornucopions".
"We've encountered a major paradox that nobody knows how to reconcile"
"Black holes, in other words, sever the bonds between past, present, and future"
"the information [of those things entering] is not necessarily lost but not necessarily retrievable, either; instead, it could be preserved in a way that would keep it locked away forever"
"The edge of a black hole---the event horizon---is not a physical surface. It is, however, a boundary. Once past it, nothing, not light, not you, can return to the observable universe. Crossing the event horizon would in itself be rather uneventful, however. `You almost wouldn't notice anything' says Rutgers University physicist Tom Banks. except, perhaps that suddenly no one was returning your calls.`If the falling guy was trying to send signals to tell the people outside where he was, the photons that he sent after he crossed the event horizon would never get out of the black hole'."
"But a passage into a black hole is strictly a one way trip: whatever falls in never comes back out again."
"The infinite interior of the remnant is still inaccessible, nothing will ever come back out of it."
"What's happening is that space is stretching, and I'm getting new places for information [of items] to go, but information is not disappearing. It's just getting to a place where I can never communicate with it anymore."
So, enquiring minds want to know.......might there be some truth to the picture of Hell that Jesus painted for us almost 2000 years ago?.....And, if so how did He know these things?
The betting is open.....