(February 3, 2014 at 1:45 am)Drich Wrote: Hell is describes as a bottomless pit. Here: luke 8, luke 16, rev 9, rev 17. Bottomless pits are by nature dark.
Hell has fire as per these verses. Mat 5 and 18, mark 9, James 3, Jude 1(also describes hell being a dark place.)
Fire as we know it produces light. Hell is described as a bottomless pit, and yet has fire. This fire is not the typical fire that we know because the fire we know produces light. So this fire, hell fire is different.
Actually, according to Genesis, light is separate from its sources; given that night and day were created before the sun that causes them, it'd kind of have to be. So it's equally biblically consistent to say that it's the same kind of fire, just lacking the light.
Incidentally, since a bottomless pit could, by definition, never have enough light in it to fully illuminate it, it's entirely possible for light producing fire to be present, yet for it still to be dark. Want an experiment? Go outside at night and light a match: you've got some light, but it's still dark out, right?
And all that is just ignoring the fact that you're taking the single potentially confirmed way in which this fire is different from regular fire, and then assuming, based on that single data point, that it's also different in a bunch of other ways that you haven't justified. You actually do this a lot, taking verses that possibly confirm a single aspect of a larger claim you're making, and then assuming that because that single thing is consistent, the rest must be too. It's more than a little dishonest.
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