RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 16, 2015 at 9:04 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2015 at 9:06 pm by Lek.)
I'm one who doesn't believe in eternal torment, but I'm not quite that nice of a christian. Jesus definitely spoke of hell and it's not a nice place, since he said it would better to cut your arm off or gouge your eye out than to go there. You are right though. Views of hell are changing. The catholic church adopted the eternal torment view of hell and it became the predominant view, but that wasn't the case before that time. In the earliest days "annihilation" and "universal reconciliation" were highly accepted views by church fathers. It seems though that one has to make a stop in hell before moving on to either of those situations.