Why does the Bible often speak of "under the earth?"

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An example:
Apocalypse (Revelation) 5:3
And no man was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look on it.

Does anyone believe that there are people living under the earth? I believe that there must be a civilization much more advanced than ours and have often thought about the hollow earth theory. I find it coincidental that the Bible also speaks about people under the earth.
 
Robert_Sock said:
An example:
Apocalypse (Revelation) 5:3
And no man was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look on it.

Does anyone believe that there are people living under the earth? I believe that there must be a civilization much more advanced than ours and have often thought about the hollow earth theory. I find it coincidental that the Bible also speaks about people under the earth.
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Ancient civilizations believed in the concept of a “three tiered” universe. In ancient Hebrew cosmology, the earth was the center of the universe. Above it were the sky and the heavens, and below it were the Underworld, or Sheol, and the waters. The earth, with Canaan at its center was believed to be one mass of land surrounded by an ocean. It rested on pillars (1 Sam 2.8; Job 9.6; Ps 75.3) or on firm foundations. I interpret the people under the earth as the possible/imagined inhabitants of the underworld around the pillars.
 
Under the earth means the abode of the dead. The dead (their naturalbodies) go into the earth; they do not return from there; and so the idea of their resuming some form of existence in that region took hold.

There can be no hollow earth, as sei(name removed by moderator)etry shows us that the
planet is solid (except the outer core which is liquid). Also, rock would not hold the pressure of the earth’s weight over a huge void.

Also, there are no physical remnants of the ancient, “higher civilization”, as there would inevitably be.

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I wondered about this a month ago and looked it up in Catholic Biblical commentaries. Probably this refers to those in hell, who like everyone else must recognize God’s greatness.
 
mdgspencer said:
I wondered about this a month ago and looked it up in Catholic Biblical commentaries. Probably this refers to those in hell, who like everyone else must recognize God’s greatness.
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Post # 2 sounds best. We should remember the Bible was written far earlier Cultures, not modern English, I’ve heard 😉
 
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