An odd question

[dudeabides]

I thought they said center of earth but im honestly basing it off Christian preachers

[Fake Messiah]

If the bible isn't true and I believe it's not, it has some historicity to it but not true. My question is this, how did those goat herders in the desert know the center of the earth was hot? I know it's not Hell but they believed it was and it is the hottest place around in the center of the earth.

Maybe because they saw vulcanoes vomiting fire?

But if you are talking about hell then it's a different story. In OT they just had Sheol, very much like Greek Hades which is kind of like a cold cave; while the Hell of the NT was based on Valley of Hinnom. Valley of Hinnom was a place near Jerusalem where people sacrificed their children to gods. By the early first century, the Valley of Hinnom was well-established as a cursed place just outside Jerusalem with a constant fire burning. By then, people mostly disposed of their trash there, and Roman soldiers would also throw the bodies of criminals executed by crucifixion into the infamous pit.

Over time, in Hebrew, the name for Hinnom evolved from Ge-hinnom to simply Gehenna. GEHENNA is the word that Jesus uses. He refers to Sheol in the Gospels as a place for the dead, but he also does Sheol one better when he makes reference to the notorious Gehenna as a destiny to be feared.

[dudeabides]

But does the bible predict accurately the center of the earth is hot?

[HappySkeptic]

But does the bible predict accurately the center of the earth is hot?

The bible does not predict that the Earth has a center, period. Fake Messiah has explained the reference to Sheol and Gehenna in the bible (and there is also reference to a lake of fire, which would be a lava flow). None of these are in the center of the Earth.

[Nay_Sayer]

Well it clearly does, it says the center of the earth is hot

It also states bats are birds. What's your point?

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But does the bible predict accurately the center of the earth is hot?

Sure let's say it does. Is the part where you second guess yourself and miraculously turn to the bible?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But does the bible predict accurately the center of the earth is hot?

Even if the authors of the Bible knew the Earth had a centre, it’s a mistake to call a guess that happens to be accurate a ‘prediction’. As Nudger said, they had a 50% chance of getting it right.

I’m getting a whiff of eau de trollette.

Boru

[Belacqua]

Well it clearly does, it says the center of the earth is hot

What verse says that?

[LadyForCamus]

If the bible isn't true and I believe it's not, it has some historicity to it but not true. My question is this, how did those goat herders in the desert know the center of the earth was hot? I know it's not Hell but they believed it was and it is the hottest place around in the center of the earth.

Hi Emile.

[Astreja]

One-word explanation for the allegedly "divine" knowledge:

Volcanoes.

[Belacqua]

Dante depicts the deepest part of Hell as a frozen lake. (Hell is frozen over.) Satan is frozen up to his chest. The center of the earth is either Satan's navel, or his penis, depending on the interpretation.

Dante and Virgil climb down through the center of the earth, and have to turn over and start climbing up when they pass the halfway point.

Dante occasionally used poetic license, but if the Bible had stated definitively that the core was hot, it's doubtful he would have contradicted that. (Dante knew more about the Bible than most people.)