M Evd
If the shall and shall not are to be understood literally, then the number of the damned is entirely limited to the very few who actually saw Christ's miracles, and ascribed them to Beelzebub. No one since, and no one hereafter can be damned, for all other sin but that shall be forgiven. This saves all mankind except those few persons who said, he Christ hath an unclean spirit. This reduces hell to a mere mote in the universe, and excludes all now living, or who hereafter shall live, from any...
The Emperor Justinian
And still later the Emperor Justinian A.D. 540 in calling the celebrated local council which assembled in 544, addressed his edict to Mennos, Patriarch of Constantinople, and elaborately argued against the doctrines he had determined should be condemned. He does not say, in defining the Catholic doctrine at that time We believe inaionian punishment, for that was just what the Universalist Origen himself taught. Nor does he say, The word aionion has been misunderstood, it denotes endless...
Eating And Drinking Damnation
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.-l Cor. xi 29. The word translated damnation is very improperly rendered. Krima denotes punishment, resulting in improvement, according to verse 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. The best rendering of krima is judgment, by which word it is usually represented in English. Matt. vii 2, For with what judgment ye...
M Tpd
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not, shall be damned. Mark xvi 16. If we admit that damned means final torment, we shut out of salvation all infants, idiots, insane, and heathen, for they do not believe. We also consign all the rest of mankind to endless torment, for according to the test given, there is not a believer on earth today. We are told in the next verse that all believers may be known by their being able to heal the sick, and take poison without...