Everlasting Punishment and Modern Speculation
by William Reid
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217474993
Paperback|9780217474993
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: L THE ETERNITY OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT IS TAUGHT EXPRESSLY IN SCRIPTURE. Although ten thousand general councils would set down one ami the same definitive sentence concerning any point of religion whatsoever, jet one demonstrative reason alleged, or one manifest testimony cited from the mouth of God to the contrary, could not choose but outweigh them all. ? Hooker. DVANTAGE has been taken of the comparative silence of the Old-Testament Scriptures respecting eternal punishment, to prove that there is no such punishment. I proceed now to the first passage, says Mr Davis, who is a Destructionist, the very first in the whole Bible, that can with the faintest colour of reason be quoted to prove the common doctrine; not to prove that the wicked suffer hereafter, for that is not denied, but that they suffer forever hereafter; not to prove that they never enter heaven, for that is admitted; but that they live eternally in hell. And where do we find this first passage? Certainly not in either of the five books of Moses. There is not a line in one of these about everlasting misery; not a line that it can be alleged contains thatphrase, or similar words, or any that bear such a meaning. And the history embraced in those five books is commonly reckoned to extend over a period of about 2500 years. The same silence on endless misery prevails in all the various intermediate books between the first five and the Psalms. It is the same in the Psalms themselves?the same in the three books between the Psalms and the Prophets. We then come to the book of the Prophet Isaiah; we proceed more than half through it, and at length appears the passage I shall quote. But first let me ask you to observe well that before we have reached this passage in Isaiah, we have passed over about 1000 yea...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217474993 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217474993 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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