By: Dan Ceppa
Re: Heaven's limited size

Not too long ago, a couple of posters were wondering about
what the bible had to say on the size of heaven.  I think this
is the file you were looking for:

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  Msg#: 35515                                        Date: 02-22-95  08:58
  From: Owen Fauvel                                  Read: Yes    Replied: No
    To: All & Russ Catto                             Mark:
  Subj: Re: flood
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 -=> Quoting Ross Catto to All <=-

 RC> In an article in the 'Journal of Geological Education', 1983, it
 RC> was pointed out that the volume of water necessary to cover the highest
 RC> mountains on earth would be about 4.4 billion cubic kilometres, in
 RC> addition to the 1.37 billion in the ocean.
 RC> If this amount was in the atmosphere as vapour, the pressure would
 RC> be about 840 times greater.  If condensed into rain, the energy
 RC> released from the heat of vaporization would increase the temperature
 RC> to about 6400 degrees F. boiling the oceans and destroying the ark.
 RC> The heat would also prevent the vapor from condensing in the first
 RC> place.

     Excellent! and I might add that "heaven" as defined in the bible
     (Revelation, 21:16.) is a cube about 1500 miles in each direction. If
     you allow 10 cubic feet per person, then heaven was filled up by the
     time of Colombus and this does not allow for the "streets of gold" or
     "the pure river of water, clear as crystal..." etc.
     God himself proved that he was not the Creator when he "took Abraham
     outside" and told Abraham that he would have "as many descendants as
     there are stars in the sky" (Gen:15,5.) If he WAS the creator he would
     have known that there are 400 billion stars in our own galaxy alone!

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