The Pillars of the Earth

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Samuel 2:8) KJV

This is an example of the of the Hebrew word tebel (world) being used to refer to part of the earth (erets). In this case the world has been set upon the pillars of the earth. We have deduced that in this instance the word world is referring to the earth’s crust and mantle. This passage gives us a predictive testable hypothesis.

In the early days of Geology people would do arcane things like measure the amount of crustal material that was overlain, subducted or upthrust into mountain ranges and conclude that there’s too much of it. Why’s there so much extra crustal material to account for? This is known as circumferential shortening and it used to vex Geologists of yesteryear. Some proposed radial shrinkage, that the radius of the Earth must have shrunk, but no one was ever able to satisfactorily explain why the Earth underwent radial shrinkage and the issue faded out of view.

Hypothesis 8

The rationale for calculating radial shrinkage and circumferential shortening has been derived from some interesting deductive speculation:

IF the earth’s mantle (tebel) rested upon the pillars of the earth, AND remnants of them now protrude through the crust and mantle,

HAS the earth has undergone radial shrinkage in the past?

IF geological features such as Monument Valley, Utah; Devil’s Tower, Wyoming; Pilot Mountain, North Carolina; and Saint Michael’s Mount, UK, are remnants of the pillars of the earth,

THEN we have the approximate radius of the inner surface of the earth’s mantle on the 3rd day, AND a way to calculate the original radius of the earth,

THEREFORE these geological features will be finely bedded metamorphic structures, not igneous intrusions.

This means that if there are remnants of the pillars of the earth then their summit represents the minimum radius of the inner surface of the original mantle. The image today features Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Could Pilot Mountain, and other geological features around the world like the pillars in Monument Valley, Utah, be remnants of the pillars of the earth? This gives us a fascinating deductive question:

IF the top of Pilot Mountain was the bottom of the earth’s mantle on the 3rd day,

CAN we calculate the original radius of the earth?

Monument Valley, UT

The Volume of Earth’s Mantle

This isn’t a particularly complex problem. We can estimate the volume of material that’s in the earth’s mantle at the present time by using the boundaries of the regions of the earth that we get from seismological data.

Seismological data conforms the internal structure of the earth as described by Jesus

If we assume that this volume of material was a hollow sphere, of which the inner radius is the same as the present day earth surface, then we can calculate the radius of the earth on the 3rd day. There is a useful tool that helps with these calculations which may be found here.

Earth, Present Day (values)

Earth, Present Day Approx. radius (km) v Approx. volume (m3) Volumetric radius 6,371 v1 1.08E+12 Inner surface of mantle 4,100 v2 2.89E+11 Mantle material (v1-v2) v3 7.95E+11 3rd day total volume (v1+v3) 7,653 v4 1.88E+12

Earth Comparison

Present Day vs. The 3rd Day

The earth on the third day of creation had a radius of about 7,653 km. This is 1,282 km larger than the radius of the present day earth. Present day earth would fit inside the earth as it was created on the 3rd day.

Present Day vs. the 3rd Day

What happened to cause the earth to shrink in size? That’s going to come later. The months of July through October are when we will look the historical changes that have happened to the earth.

If there are remnants of the pillars of the earth today, then we have an important clue that allows us to calculate the original radius of the earth as it was on the 3rd day of creation: approximately 7,653 km.

Thought for the Day

Matty’s Paradigm is a Thing It began in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. (Matthew 13:52) KJV

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