Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
This is a sort of "spin-off" from this thread:
http://www.puritanboard.com/f15/Christ-going-up-into-sky-61632/
We know that the human body reflects spiritual realities
e.g. the soul must be cleansed from sin, just as the body must be cleansed from filth.
e.g. the soul hungers and thirsts for God, just as the body desires food and drink.
Does Man's environment reflect spiritual realities too? In the Bible Heaven is Up/ Above and Hell is Down/Below? What about the fact that God has put a literal "lake of fire" below the Earth?
The Demons in Legion did not want to be sent into the "abyss", yet they entered into a herd of swine that ran into the "abyss"
The Beast from the Sea in the Book of Revelation comes up from the abyss, and the subtler Beast from the Earth arises from the Earth.
Are there any threads/books on Biblical Cosmology and its symbolism?
http://www.puritanboard.com/f15/Christ-going-up-into-sky-61632/
We know that the human body reflects spiritual realities
e.g. the soul must be cleansed from sin, just as the body must be cleansed from filth.
e.g. the soul hungers and thirsts for God, just as the body desires food and drink.
Does Man's environment reflect spiritual realities too? In the Bible Heaven is Up/ Above and Hell is Down/Below? What about the fact that God has put a literal "lake of fire" below the Earth?
The Demons in Legion did not want to be sent into the "abyss", yet they entered into a herd of swine that ran into the "abyss"
The Beast from the Sea in the Book of Revelation comes up from the abyss, and the subtler Beast from the Earth arises from the Earth.
Are there any threads/books on Biblical Cosmology and its symbolism?