12/13/2022 0 Comments Firmament of heavenLet’s leave the ocean of water above us and its relationship with heaven for another day and concentrate strictly on the locale of heaven instead, though we may naturally find some intermingling between the two, since the Hebrews believed heaven and that body of water to roughly be in the same neighborhood. The Bible describes lots of water above the firmament, and also heaven. I’m further going to divide this up into two ways. In yesterday’s post I established the belief, as it pertained to the writers of the Bible, that God created a physical dome above our heads, the firmament, or rāqîa’ (רָקִ֫יעַ) in Hebrew. When Christians threw out the Biblical creation model of a self-enclosed system underneath a physical firmament, or dome, with the glories of heaven physically built directly above that, they turned to metaphorical steeples instead. And it wasn’t until I became a Flat Earther that the question became self-explanatory. Great cathedrals of the Renaissance, Holy Roman and Byzantine Empire all contained them, – even the Ottomans. Churches with domes can be found all over the world. It’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since. WHY CHURCHES ARE NO LONGER BUILT UNDER DOMES is a valid question, one in which I first asked myself while standing beside the empty tomb of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, gazing up at the breathtaking ceiling which arched directly above me.
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