RE: [Quranic reflection]: hell is a black hole-part III
April 17, 2022 at 1:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2022 at 1:28 am by JairCrawford.)
Um… well it’s been a while since the last time I skimmed through the Quran so, there may be some missing context as far as my understanding of the Islamic depictions of hell.
But the first question that comes to mind (if this is even a phenomenon in the Quran) is, which hell are you referring to? Is it Sheol/Hades, or Gehenna? Because those are two very different things. But from my understanding, Revelation implies that Sheol/Hades will be thrown into Gehenna. Im making an educated guess that this is a cognate to the Islamic Jahanna(sp?). By my limited understanding so far, it sounds to me like the underworld (believed to be under the earth) will be consumed by the lake of fire. If the Quran has any direct references to such ideas, then the location of hell would be best interpreted as beneath the earth. Of course, we are dealing with multiple traditions that range from ancient Canaanite culture all the way to… circa 600-ish AD? If my memory serves me correctly. Which means the fundamental understanding of this underworld is from a flat earth perspective where the earth floats on the primordial waters with the firmament separating the waters, etc.
Long story short… I see no connections at all with black holes. The authors of the Tanakh, New Testament, and the Quran were not even aware of the earth being a sphere, let alone what a black hole was.
@arewethereyet Ironically, after all that, I’m about to go to bed as I have a piano gig at an Easter sunrise service. I would say happy Easter but I don’t know how well received that would be here so I’ll refrain.
But the first question that comes to mind (if this is even a phenomenon in the Quran) is, which hell are you referring to? Is it Sheol/Hades, or Gehenna? Because those are two very different things. But from my understanding, Revelation implies that Sheol/Hades will be thrown into Gehenna. Im making an educated guess that this is a cognate to the Islamic Jahanna(sp?). By my limited understanding so far, it sounds to me like the underworld (believed to be under the earth) will be consumed by the lake of fire. If the Quran has any direct references to such ideas, then the location of hell would be best interpreted as beneath the earth. Of course, we are dealing with multiple traditions that range from ancient Canaanite culture all the way to… circa 600-ish AD? If my memory serves me correctly. Which means the fundamental understanding of this underworld is from a flat earth perspective where the earth floats on the primordial waters with the firmament separating the waters, etc.
Long story short… I see no connections at all with black holes. The authors of the Tanakh, New Testament, and the Quran were not even aware of the earth being a sphere, let alone what a black hole was.
@arewethereyet Ironically, after all that, I’m about to go to bed as I have a piano gig at an Easter sunrise service. I would say happy Easter but I don’t know how well received that would be here so I’ll refrain.