Talk:Fire and brimstone

Fire and Brimstone
I don't think anyone in the West has heard a truly fire and brimstone sermon for a long time. John MacArthur is perhaps the closest well known very-conservative preacher in our time, and he doesn't quite preach at the Jonathan Edwards level. Outside the West it is still popular, in particular Africa and China (in underground churches), and rarely in Chinese disposra and Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Singaporean churches. No scholarly researches here, but I will let others find. --JNZ (talk) 22:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Quranic Accuracy
I've just checked the Quranic reference, and the words "fire" and "sulphur" are both absent from the Arabic. Perhaps the "Islamic reference" doesn't belong in this article? 95.149.94.252 (talk) 15:45, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Biblical Accuracy
From my research, it appears that the Earth's crust was unknown to us until the early 1900's. It's amazing that a book written thousands of years ago was able to accurately describe the earth's core (fire and Brimstone(sulfur)). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.53.113.2 (talk) 17:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

The earth's core is not fire and brimstone. It is solid iron, we think. It could be molten iron. It is what gives us our magnetic field. It is of course at quite a high temperature, but because of the pressure it may be solid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonTrew (talk • contribs) 02:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

To elaborate on the solid iron reference, in many places in the Bible, IRON is used as a symbol of God's judgment or HELL:

"But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day." (Deuteronomy 4:20).

"For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron." (I Kings 8:51).

And to quote an encyclopedia:

"With a radius of almost 3,500 kilometres, Earth's core is about the size of the entire planet Mars. About one-third of Earth's mass is contained in the core, most of which is liquid iron alloyed with some lighter, cosmically abundant components (e.g., sulfur, oxygen, and even, controversially, hydrogen). Its liquid nature is revealed by the failure of shear-type seismic waves to penetrate the core. A small, central part of the core, however, below a depth of about 5,100 kilometres, is solid. Temperatures in the core are extremely hot, ranging from 4,000-5,000, K (roughly 6,700-8, 500° F, 3,700-4,700° C) at the outer part of the core to 5,000-7,000 K (8,500-12,100° F, 4,700-6,700° C) in the centre, comparable to the surface of the Sun. The core's reservoir of heat may contribute as much as one fifth of all the internal heat that ultimately flows to the surface of Earth."(Encyclopedia Britannica, vol., 27, p. 481). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.121.30 (talk) 23:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

"Sulphur"
I am British but wonder if this should be spelt Sulfur as English Wiki generally follows US rules.

Also, there is no explanation that brimstone = sulphur (mainly).

There is a famous play by Dennis Potter called "Fire and Brimstone" I wonder if this should be cross-referenced.

Si Trew 02-Feb-2009 02.05am GMT —Preceding undated comment was added at 02:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC).

Quakers Quiestist?
I have a bit of trouble buying the idea of Quakerism being quietist. It's almost like saying that Baptists are all Evangelical. Lucretia Mott spoke against a quietist frame of Quakerism. She said "Quakerism, as I understand it, does not mean quietism." Artsygeek (talk) 01:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Removed the sentence saying "In contrast, such styles would be out of place in quietist traditions, such as the Society of Friends (or Quakers)." It's been about a year and there's been no argument to the contrary. Artsygeek (talk) 21:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Smell of sulphur?
The smell associated with lighting (and high-power electrical discharges in general) is due to the formation of ozone, not sulphur dioxide. .. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.37.139.84 (talk) 09:49, 3 January 2020 (UTC)