I was reading this phoney-baloney bleeding heart FALSE Christian sermon, when I was struck by the following statement:
“hell is paved with the skulls of infants not a span long”
Now, a span is 23 inches, so I thought they were rather big skulls for being infants' skulls. After a while it dawned upon me that it was the infants, not the skulls, who were "not a span long". Ooops.
Anyway, it got me wondering about the exact nature of building materials that God used when He created Hell (Matthew 25:41). As a True Christian™ I only except to see Hell from the other side of the great gulf, so please indulge an old man's curiosity.
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) claimed that "The road to hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized babies", while Richard Baxter (1615-1691) is quoted in Hazlitt's "Table Talk" for stating from the pulpit, "Hell is paved with infants' skulls". According to Chrysostom it was priests' skulls and not infants' skulls.
I hope my True Christian™ brethren and sistren have given thoughts to this theological puzzle.
“hell is paved with the skulls of infants not a span long”
Now, a span is 23 inches, so I thought they were rather big skulls for being infants' skulls. After a while it dawned upon me that it was the infants, not the skulls, who were "not a span long". Ooops.

Anyway, it got me wondering about the exact nature of building materials that God used when He created Hell (Matthew 25:41). As a True Christian™ I only except to see Hell from the other side of the great gulf, so please indulge an old man's curiosity.
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) claimed that "The road to hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized babies", while Richard Baxter (1615-1691) is quoted in Hazlitt's "Table Talk" for stating from the pulpit, "Hell is paved with infants' skulls". According to Chrysostom it was priests' skulls and not infants' skulls.
I hope my True Christian™ brethren and sistren have given thoughts to this theological puzzle.
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