If gold were totally pure it would be transparent?
Rev. 21:18
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. Rev.21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
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its possible
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Cry me a River Nothing is impossible for God..
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The color of pure Gold is bright golden yellow, but the greater the silver content, the whiter its color is. minerals.net
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Cry me a River
Gods pure is not mans pure -
Linda Joy
Or minerals.net pure. And invisible tape is not invisible either. I can see it! -
Linda Joy
Pure like glass is the kind of transparent that people walk into because its so clear they can't see it. Have you seen that happen? -
Cry me a River
In Heaven we can go right through it anyway, haha :) -
Linda Joy
That would defeat the purpose of it being there. You wouldn't be able to heat or cool a room if the wind can go right through. That's why we make doorways, and doors.
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"Gold films, made suitably thin, can exhibit high transparency and high conductivity at the same time." https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/transparent-can-layer-gold/ There is also transparent aluminum. https://phys.org/news/2009-07-transparent-aluminium-state.html
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Cry me a River
I do not want the gold on my street to be thin!,:) -
mushroom
Ah, but they may one day recharge your electric car as you drive! -
Cry me a River
God has his ways
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Not to stir the pot again, but the Book of Revelations really doesn't make any sense. Everybody knows that gold is not like glass. It's some sort of allegory.
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Cry me a River
Revelation is a literal book, so I have heard.. I am certain God knows what he is talking about...thanks for answering. -
Cry me a River
Transparent as glass, it says. It does not say as glass. -
Cry me a River
It is called a metaphor. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉
A simile is a comparison that uses "like" or "as;" a metaphor does not use "like" or "as." This example is a simile, not a metaphor. The Bible cannot be taken literally. I know a lot of Baptists (I was raised Baptist) will throw a fit when I say it, but it's simply apparent. Read Genesis 1 and then read Genesis 2. Why are there two different creation narratives? It's simple: the creation narrative isn't literally true, but the story that it's teaching you still rings true. That's only the first two chapters, but the entire Bible is that way. The point of it is to teach you philosophy, not history or biology or geology or geography or any of the other things that it gets wrong. As for the Book of Revelation, if you expect any of those things to literally come true, then you might as well believe in Scientology or something. Things like the beast and the false prophet are not physical entities, so believing that they will be physically thrown into an actual lake that is non-metaphorically on fire is crazy talk. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉
The passage in question is also physically impossible. You cannot build a city out of pure gold. There is literally not enough gold on planet Earth to build a city out of it. Also, pure gold is not transparent. I know that another user correctly pointed out that extremely thin films of gold are transparent, but these films are 1-2 atoms thick, and substrated on glass. That thickness isn't strong enough to hold anything on its own, and the fact that it's a glass composite makes it not "pure gold." As many of the stories in the Bible, it's a parable or allegory used as a teaching tool; it's not a literal prophesy. And - if it was a literal prophesy, then it's literally wrong, because part of the prophesy of the New Testament was that the apocalypse would happen before ~150 AD. ( Matthew 24:34; Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32) -
Cry me a River
All that is crazy talk, as you put it. -
Linda Joy
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think!
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