The Doctrine of Endless PunishmentScribner, 1885 - 163 At the request of the editor of the North American Review, the author of this book prepared an argument in defense of the doctrine of Endless Punishment, which was published in the number of that periodical for February, 1885. It was agreed that the writer should have the right to republish it at a future time. Only the rational argument was presented in the article. The author now reproduces it, adding the biblical argument, and a brief historical sketch. Every doctrine has its day to be attacked, and defended. Just now, that of Eternal Retribution is strenuously combated, not only outside of the church, but to some extent within it. Whoever preaches it is said, by some, not "to preach to the times"--As if the sin of this time were privileged, and stood in a different relation to the law and judgment of God, from that of other times. Neither the Christian ministry, nor the Christian church, are responsible for the doctrine of Eternal Perdition. It is given in charge to the ministry, and to the church, by the Lord Christ himself, in his last commission, as a truth to be preached to every creature. Speaking generally, those who believe that there is a hell, and intelligently fear it, as they are commanded to do by Christ himself, will escape it; and those who deny that there is a hell, and ridicule it, will fall into it. Hence the minister of Christ must be as plain as Christ, as solemn as Christ, and as tender as Christ, in the announcement of this fearful truth. - Preface |
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... spirit is the most dreadful event conceivable . That some of God's rational and self - determined creatures will forever be in deadly enmity to him , cannot be thought of without sorrow and awe . But from the nature of finite free will ...
... spirit is the most dreadful event conceivable . That some of God's rational and self - determined creatures will forever be in deadly enmity to him , cannot be thought of without sorrow and awe . But from the nature of finite free will ...
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... spirits in prison ; " and Heb . 11 : 39 , 40 : " These received not the promises . " These two passages Nitzsch explains , as teaching that " there are traces of a capacity in another state of existence for comprehending salva- tion ...
... spirits in prison ; " and Heb . 11 : 39 , 40 : " These received not the promises . " These two passages Nitzsch explains , as teaching that " there are traces of a capacity in another state of existence for comprehending salva- tion ...
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... spirits . And the threatening would have been foolish , because it would have been a brutum fulmen , an exaggerated danger , certainly in the mind of its author . And for the persons threatened , it would have been a terror only because ...
... spirits . And the threatening would have been foolish , because it would have been a brutum fulmen , an exaggerated danger , certainly in the mind of its author . And for the persons threatened , it would have been a terror only because ...
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... spirit - world ) , and the place of torment or eternal punishment ; but in the Re- vision of 1881 the distinction is restored , and the term Hades introduced . " The same change is made in the Revised Old Testament , published in 1885 ...
... spirit - world ) , and the place of torment or eternal punishment ; but in the Re- vision of 1881 the distinction is restored , and the term Hades introduced . " The same change is made in the Revised Old Testament , published in 1885 ...
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... spirits , and corresponds to the Greek Hades , or the Underworld " ( Preface to the Re- vised Old Testament ) . The meaning of an important technical term , such as Sheol , must be determined , certainly in part , by the connection of ...
... spirits , and corresponds to the Greek Hades , or the Underworld " ( Preface to the Re- vised Old Testament ) . The meaning of an important technical term , such as Sheol , must be determined , certainly in part , by the connection of ...
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