I have in my library
the book
The Revelation Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on
the Prophetic Book of the End of Times[i]
by Henry M. Morris – a commentary on the final book of the bible and a sort of
bookend companion piece to his similarly named commentary on Genesis. And it is a howler, ridiculousness on nearly
every page, far too many to share them all...
It’s
billed as a “scientific” commentary, but, to be honest, there’s very little
actual science. There is, however, a
good deal of science fiction and much fantasy. Take this example
of his science-fiction/fantasy (or speculative fiction, if you prefer) commentary on Revelation 20: 14 “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death,” offered
without comment:
“Even
disembodied souls seem to be recognizable in terms of their earthly
identities. Note the remarkable
descriptions of the dead in Sheol in Ezekiel 31 and 32, as well as Isaiah 14. That being so, such spirit bodies also may
possess spirit senses and are [sic] capable of experiencing feelings analogous
to those they possessed in the flesh. We
obviously have little understanding of such things, having no instrumentation
with which to measure degrees of pain or pleasure experienced by persons who are
without their physical bodies…”
[ii]
[i]
Morris, Henry M.
The Revelation Record: A Scientific and Devotional
Commentary on the Prophetic Book of the End of Times Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc, Wheaton IL, 1983
