Pagan Origin of Partialist DoctrinesPitrat, John Claudius
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Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines
Pitrat, John Claudius
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature; Future punishment; Universalism
5th, Since, as proved above, there is a most striking similarity, or
rather identity, between the hell of the Pagans, and the hell of the
Church of Rome,
We legitimately draw this important conclusion:
Therefore the Church of Rome borrowed from the Pagans the dogma of
endless hell.
When the Protestants, now self-called Orthodox Churches, left the Church
of Rome, in the sixteenth century, they cut off many of the appendices
and concomitant particularities of the dogma of endless hell; but they
preserved, and even in our days profess to believe, the main features of
this dogma, namely, that in hell there is sulphur, brimstone, and fire;
that in hell there are devils; that in hell there are many degrees of
torments; that in hell the wicked are constantly burning in fire without
consuming, and are constantly tortured by the devils without any relief;
that hell shall exist forever and evermore, as long as endless eternity
shall endure; and that the torments of the wicked in hell shall no more
end than hell itself.
That the Protestants, now self-called Orthodox Christian Churches,
borrowed from the Church of Rome, in the sixteenth century, the dogma of
endless hell; and that they preserved the above belief in regard to
endless hell, is proved by the unanimous testimony of modern historians
and of chroniclers. That they, now-a-days, profess the above belief in
regard to endless hell, is a fact which we can daily, and particularly
every Sunday, in all cities, towns, and villages of this country, and of
all Protestant countries, verify with our own eyes in their writings,
and with our own ears in their temples.
Now we draw our general conclusions:
1st, Therefore the Church of Rome borrowed from the Pagans the dogma of
endless hell.
2d, Therefore the now self-called Orthodox Protestant, or Christian
Churches, borrowed from the Church of Rome the dogma of endless hell.
Conclusion of the chapter:
_Therefore the Partialist doctrine of endless hell is of Pagan origin._
CHAPTER VIII.
PAGAN ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FIRST JUDGMENT, BY JESUS CHRIST,
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY.
IT will be evident that the origin of the doctrine of a first judgment,
by Jesus Christ, immediately after the separation of the soul from the
body, is Pagan, if it can be proved, 1st, That the Pagans believed in a
first judgment, by a god, immediately after the separation of the soul
from the body; 2d, That the particulars of this first judgment, believed
in by the Partialist Christian Churches, present a striking similarity
with the particulars of the first judgment, believed in by the Pagans;
and 3d, That the Church of Rome, which, in the sixteenth century,
transmitted to the now self-called Orthodox Christian Churches this
doctrine of a first judgment, which they accepted full and entire, did
not hold it from the apostles of Jesus Christ nor from the Jews.
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