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To: unlearner
You're completely wrong.

It's not mockery; it is verbal precision.

Your handwaving makes a decentish case that volcanoes might come along for the ride along with the other things.

Except that "the earth being destroyed by fire" won't happen short of something the size of the Yellowstone Caldera erupting.

And your 2 Peter 3:7 seems like a misinterpretation if you're linking it to volcanos. Since it mentions the heavens and the earth; you're gonna have to take quite awhile to convince me a physical volcano on earth is going to take out the heavens.

The problem with Sola Sciptura Protties is that they play verbal word association games, where the engage in Biblical interpretation by searching by keyword, and dragging in every verse containing a word or phrase, and insist that all the verses are necessarily connected; and then contort and twist the verse to make it fit.

83 posted on 12/09/2022 8:31:55 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: grey_whiskers

“And your 2 Peter 3:7 seems like a misinterpretation if you’re linking it to volcanos. Since it mentions the heavens and the earth; you’re gonna have to take quite awhile to convince me a physical volcano on earth is going to take out the heavens.”

Depends on what Peter is referring to by “heavens”. It certainly does not mean the 3rd Heaven, where God dwells. Since there are only 2 other “heavens” I take it that Peter is referring to the atmosphere and some of the space above the atmosphere. I do not believe this describes God destroying the observable universe.

The final judgment of earth during the Day of the Lord includes events that are cataclysmic in their level of destruction, take the form of fire (like the judgment of Sodom), and are global in scope (like Noah’s flood).

A little research into Noah’s flood will reveal that it also touched the “heavens” so to speak. The destruction of Sodom could possibly be from volcanic activity, but the “heavens” may have also been impacted. Or, it is possible that it was meteors or something else.

Peter was referring to the “heavens” that are now as being different from their form from creation until Noah’s flood. It appears that during this time there was a body of water above the atmosphere that separated the “heavens”. It may have been something like Saturn’s rings. This body of water collapsed at Noah’s flood. It didn’t simply rain. There was also a massive amount of water that exploded upward from the earth. This may have reached beyond the atmosphere. It may have been driven by the same forces that drive volcanic activity.

I’m not trying to argue that volcanic activity is part of the fiery destruction Peter describes in this passage. I’m only saying I personally would not rule it out. That’s not a matter of interpretation. It simply means that I don’t think any of us fully know how these prophecies will play out. I don’t think they are intended to be roadmaps but more of guideposts. After they happen we will understand more fully what they mean.


84 posted on 12/09/2022 3:51:38 PM PST by unlearner ( Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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