You are a crime scene investigator and it's your first day on the job. You get a call that a woman has been burned to death and reduced to ashes in her own home, in her favorite easy chair. Strangely enough, her legs and hands are left untouched. The rest of the room is covered in greasy soot, but nothing is damaged. Curious, you pull out your "Corpse" field handbook and realize that its takes a source of 3000 degrees Fahrenheit to consume the human skeleton. Meanwhile, basic fire science tells you that a room can ignite with an ambient heat of 1110 degrees Fahrenheit. Had 67-year-old Mary Reeser just been punished by a supreme being for her unwholesome thoughts, or was she just being careless with her cigarettes? Nevertheless, this case, like many others, has been classified as Spontaneous Human Combustion, or SHC. However, SHC can clearly be debunked as a case of paranormal activity through the use of modern science and technology, or can it?.
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SHC is not a new phenomena, it has dated back as early as 1610 A.D. Why has a phenomena with such horrific results been left a mystery for so many years?.
It might be because of all the plausible explanations, both scientific and spiritual. Let us start with the spiritual explanation first. According to Hebrews 10:26,27, "For if we practice sin willfully after having received accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, but there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment and there is a fiery jealousy that is going to consume those in opposition." Maybe that was the answer; it's God consuming those who oppose him with a fiery jealousy. However, if you actually read through the bible, it becomes evident that an "act of God" will not be seen again till the time of Armageddon. So before we become blasphemers and get consumed by fire, let's take a scientific approach.
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It is possible that SHC can be instigated from within.
