Sulfur Research Paper

Hell not only seems to be a very harsh reality, but this concept also clashes with the goodness of God. This extreme divine justice is incompatible with the idea of an all loving and perfectly good God. It is written in Chronicles that ‘He is good; his love endures for ever’. However the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in divine punishment for their wickedness, Gods participation in the Battle of Jericho and Noah and the flood all challenge the belief of Gods omnibenevolence and therefore his right to reward and punish.

eternal punishment. These newer books perceive hell as more of a concept than an actual place of punishment.

It is not true what some of the tales say, that the ground burns forever, for I have been there. Here and there were the marks and stains of the Great Burning, on the ruins, that is true. But they were old marks and old stains. It is not true either, what some of our priests say, that it is an island covered with fogs and enchantments. It is not. It is a great Dead Place--greater than any Dead Place we know. (Benet 316)

The fire represents hell. No longer is fire used as a tool, it is now used as a weapon to punish innocent people, whether it be emotionally, or even physically. "On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: 'Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!"

In complete contrast to this, the Christian Hell is a place of punishment for crimes committed on Earth. There are tons of depictions of Hell across tons of books, movies, and TV shows, but the most widely accepted version of damnation comes from the writer Dante Alighieri, in his world famous title Dante’s Inferno. Alighieri described Hell as a sort of giant funnel, with seven layers on the inside, representing the seven deadly sins, and in Inferno, he and Virgil Maro traverse these layers, and battle their inner demons, while also witnessing the cruel, and ironic torture of those sent to this unholy plain of existence. For example those who were wrathfully in life find themselves trapped in the filthy slime of the Styx, violently beating each other for all of eternity, while those who were sullen in life are drowned just underneath the river, and stepped on by the wrathful. The Buddhist realm of the damned, Naraka, is the most similar to Dante’s Hell, but unlike the Inferno, Naraka is less a place of eternal suffering, and more a place of

Sulfur was known in ancient times, being mentioned for its uses in ancient India, ancient Greece, China, and Egypt. In the Bible, burning sulfur was referred to as “brimstone” and Hell was considered to “smell of sulfur”. Ancient Egyptians used sulfur in an ointment that treated granular eyelids. In ancient Greece it was used as a form of fumigation, that is mentioned in the Odyssey. A natural form of sulfur known as “shiliuhuang” was known in China since the 6th century BC and by the 3rd century BC it was used as a form of medicine. In 1044 AD, the Chinese military used sulfur in black powder. It was a mixture of potassium nitrate (KNO3), charcoal, and sulfur. Today it still remains an ingredient of black powder. Indian alchemists wrote about the use of sulfur in alchemical operations with mercury from the 8th century AD

Once it is released it is hard to control. It is strong and can be caused by any mistake. Metaphors are used in the speech to compare hell to brimstone. " That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone..."

To illustrate, Edwards elucidates the next destination for the unrepentant Christians, “the world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon.”

211). Throughout the text the constant repetition of the “wrath of God” clearly portrays Him as someone who acts out of spite (Edwards, 1741, pg. 211). The text clearly states that “The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber, the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.” characterizing the spitefulness of God (Edwards, 1741, pg. 211). In hell burns a “dreadful pit of glowing flames” fueled by “the wrath of God” (Edwards, 1741, pg. 214).

Fire becomes a symbol of God’s wrath and hell in this sermon. At one point, Edwards says, “his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. ”(57) No one wants to burn in hell and be seen as nothing but kindling in God’s eyes because of the sins they have committed. As a sinful person in the audience, it is scary to imagine that they have stirred up God so much so that his wrath burns like fire.

10. Your friend says that what makes one element distinct from another is the number of electrons about the atomic nucleus. Do you agree wholeheartedly, partially, or not at all? Explain.

Hell seems to be like a place where people tend to just go with the motions. Only the people who truly want to leave will. In the book of Revelation, Hell is described as fiery lake of burning sulfur. This scripture lines up most with what I have been taught about Hell.

After a successful test of atomic bomb, Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita saying “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. In the story, By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet, the main character John learns of the downfall of pervious society that ended due to nuclear warfare. Nuclear warfare began around the 1940s, which would be right around when this story was written; which, more likely than note, had an influence on this story. In By the Waters of Babylon the reader learns about the “Place of the Gods”.

In two not so different societies, the Puritan people and the people of The Church of Fire and Brimstone learn to live a life under the fear of God. Both societies share the similarity of living a life of holiness on land so that they may be taken into the Kingdom of God. In order to do so, these people put themselves through strict rules and harsh punishment that are near inhumane. Each of these people live out their lives in fear of being left behind when God takes His people into Heaven, and they believe that they have to sacrifice their well-being and bodies in order to let their souls live happily in the afterlife. On earth, they are forced to fight off earthly desires that take

Some of these words include the following: Hades (Greek), Tartarus (Greek), Gehenna (Greek), and Sheol (Hebrew). Hades, literally translated “punishment” was used in Matthew 11 times. In Mathew Jesus consistently refers Hades as “the place of punishment and suffering prepared for the devil and his angles as well as for those that reject God” (J. Lunde 310-311). Another word used for hades "κόλασις" (kolasis) is used in Mathew 25:46 with the word eternal. This means that hell is everlasting, not temporary where God’s love doesn’t only punish “the wicked to a certain period of time” (Grudem 1151). “Hell is an eternal place of conscious torment and separation from God, whereby God pours out His justifiable wrath on Satan, his demons and unrepentant sinners” (Jeff Cook). The next word, Tartarus, which is translated to “the pit,” is used in 2 Peter 2:4 when God did not spare his angels when they sinned but “cast them into hell (Tartarus).” One last Greek word Gehenna means the Valley of Hinnom. In the Old Testament, the Valley of Hinnom was a place where the tribe of Judah would take their children and offer them as a sacrifice to the Canaanite god Molech, the god of fire. Consequently, Jesus refers to it as an actual place to get this point across: “Hell is a place of burning fire” (Grenz 643). In Hebrew the one word that is used consistently is Sheol. This also can mean “the pit” or “hell itself.” This is one of the few words about hell in the Old Testament. It is basically the same thing as Hades. All these terms point toward Hell being a place of utter destruction no matter what word you look for and nothing can dispute that hell is no place to be condemned