(October 13, 2021 at 3:18 am)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: AS far as I'm aware general christian teaching agrees with science about the centre of the earth.
There is a smallish number of crackpot fringe christians who believe the earth is hollow.
That's why I asked because maybe they are teaching one thing but believe in other, like if they believe that hell is underground. You can even find so-called recordings of sounds from hell that are supposedly recorded in some deep mines.
Now, it seems that throughout history (and until very recently) they did believe that Earth was hollow and that hell is there, but since the relatively recent understanding that they haven't yet addressed the elephant in the room.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
