The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7 x 7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all.
The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.
The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300ºK), gives H as 798ºK (525ºC).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed. However, Revelation 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone [sulphur] means that its temperature must be at or below its boiling point, 444.6ºC.
We have, then, that Heaven, at 525ºC is hotter than Hell at 445ºC.
[From the blog Jesus' General via http://cabbageskings.blogspot.com/ - this was too good a post to just not share]
11.08.2005
Disenfranchised...and we're not even in Florida. Or Black:
we got purged from the voting rolls. fucking disenfranchised.
we pay our taxes. we've lived in texas for over a year and a half. i can't comprehend how this happened.
we voted the first year we moved here. last year there was only three things on the ballot that we could vote for and nothing we researched was on that ballot!
i don't know if you've ever had your vote stolen but this year, tonight, i'm crying and i feel like somebody punched me in the stomach.
you want to talk about democracy? representation? THIS IS NOT IT! this is thievery and stealing.
when shawn and i made our decision four years ago that we should move to new zealand we should have stuck by that instead of getting sidetracked.
so we're putting the house on the market (shawn's already talked to our realtor) and we're out of here as soon as we can get a good price and the money and paperwork together to go.
we won't have a vote there either, but at least we'll have a valid reason for it -- instead of this thievery.
we pay our taxes. we've lived in texas for over a year and a half. i can't comprehend how this happened.
we voted the first year we moved here. last year there was only three things on the ballot that we could vote for and nothing we researched was on that ballot!
i don't know if you've ever had your vote stolen but this year, tonight, i'm crying and i feel like somebody punched me in the stomach.
you want to talk about democracy? representation? THIS IS NOT IT! this is thievery and stealing.
when shawn and i made our decision four years ago that we should move to new zealand we should have stuck by that instead of getting sidetracked.
so we're putting the house on the market (shawn's already talked to our realtor) and we're out of here as soon as we can get a good price and the money and paperwork together to go.
we won't have a vote there either, but at least we'll have a valid reason for it -- instead of this thievery.
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