Heaven is hotter than hell?
Nov. 17th, 2006 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneFrom Wikipedia's entry for sulfur:
"Fire and brimstone
Christian countries often associate sulfur, (in English usually under its ancient name, brimstone) with Hell and divine wrath, mostly due to the phrase "fire and brimstone", which occurs in the Bible in descriptions of Hell and divine punishment. "Fire and brimstone" sermons are those used by some preachers to compel belief by depictions of the horrors of Hell and its punishments. A joke among scientists has used those descriptions of Hell to conclude that, whereas Heaven's temperature would be a scorching 525 degrees Celsius (because it is bathed in a light of the sun... sevenfold as the light of seven days) Hell can be no hotter than the boiling point of brimstone (a mere 444.6 degrees Celsius), and thus cannot be as hot as Heaven. [3]"
"Fire and brimstone
Christian countries often associate sulfur, (in English usually under its ancient name, brimstone) with Hell and divine wrath, mostly due to the phrase "fire and brimstone", which occurs in the Bible in descriptions of Hell and divine punishment. "Fire and brimstone" sermons are those used by some preachers to compel belief by depictions of the horrors of Hell and its punishments. A joke among scientists has used those descriptions of Hell to conclude that, whereas Heaven's temperature would be a scorching 525 degrees Celsius (because it is bathed in a light of the sun... sevenfold as the light of seven days) Hell can be no hotter than the boiling point of brimstone (a mere 444.6 degrees Celsius), and thus cannot be as hot as Heaven. [3]"
