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Subject: A Brief History of Hell
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unquiet1 31.03.11 - 01:09am
Roots in Pagan Beliefs: the ancient Egyptians believed in a fiery hell. The Book Am-Tuat, dated 1375 B.C.E., speaks of those who ''shall be cast down headlong into the pits of fire; and. Shall not escape therefrom, and.. shall not be able to flee from the flames''
Greek philosopher Plutarch(46-120AD) wrote of those in the worlds below: ''they raised a cry of wailing as they underwent fearful tormentsand ignominious and excrutiating chasti ts.''
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unquiet1 31.03.11 - 01:10am
Sects of Judaism are infected: the historian Josephus reported that the Essenes, a Jewish sect, believed that ''the souls are immortal, and continue forever.'' He added, ''this is like the opinion of the Greeks they allot to bad souls a dark tempestuous den, full of never ceasing punishments'' *
unquiet1 31.03.11 - 01:11am
Introduced into 'Christianity': in the 2nd centuary C.E the false book 'Apocalypse of Peter' said of the wicked: ''there is spread out for them unquenchable fire'' it also stated: ''Ezrael, the angel of wrath brings men and women with the half of their bodies burning and casts them into a place of darkness, the hell of men. And a spirit of wrath chastises them.'' During the same time period, writer Theophilus of Antioch quotes Greek prophetess Sibyl as fortelling the punishment of the wicked: ''upon you burning fire shall come, and ever ye shall daily burn in flames'' *
unquiet1 31.03.11 - 01:12am
Hellfire used to justify violence in the middle ages: Mary I, queen of England(1553-1558), known as blood Mary for burning nearly 300 protestants at the stake said: ''as the soul of heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in hell, there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the Divine vengeance by burning them on earth'' *
unquiet1 31.03.11 - 01:13am
A recent definition of hell: in recent yrs some denominations have revised their teachings about hell. For example, the doctrine commission of the Church Of England said in 1995: ''Hell is not eternal tormentbut it is the final and irrevocable chosing of that which is opposed to God so completely and so absolutely that the only end is total non-being'' *
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