(May 13, 2015 at 1:24 am)dahrling Wrote: In the book of Revelations, Heaven (a.k.a New Jerusalem) is described as a very physical place and that always bothered me
I am thinking Borg ship.
- REV 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
(Why was the angel carrying around these vials of virulent viruses anyway?)
- REV 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
(In the infamous words of Captain James T. Kirk, "Excuse me, but why does God need a spaceship?)
- REV 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
- REV 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
- REV 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
- REV 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
- REV 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
- REV 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
(A furlong is one eighth of a mile. That makes the 'City of Jerusalem' a cube about 1500 MILES by 1500 MILES by 1500 MILES. The moon has a diameter of 2158 miles)
- REV 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
(A cubit is about 18 inches which would make the walls just over 200 feet thick.)
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
