Shall we not perhaps be told, on the other hand, that if the sinner suffers an eternal punishment, it is because he does not cease to sin?
In human ethics, or if you like in human police regulations--that which is called penal law and is anything but law[52] eternal punishment is a meaningless phrase.
But they accused him of imposture: wherefore they shall be delivered up to eternal punishment; except the sincere servants of GOD.
Wherefore the "character of the beast" may be understood by opposition, to mean either the obstinate malice for which some are assigned to eternal punishment, or the profession of an unlawful form of worship.
Accordingly, in so far as mortal sin turns away from the immutable Good, it induces a debt of eternal punishment, so that whosoever sins against the eternal Good should be punished eternally.
Consequently mortal sin is said to be pardoned from the very fact that, by means of grace, the aversion of the mind from God is taken away together with the debt of eternal punishment: and yet the material element remains, viz.
Since, however, the turning to mutable good is finite, sin does not, in this respect, induce a debt of eternal punishment.
Then came moments in which he almost taught himself to believe that in destroying the will he would be doing no more than an act of rough justice, and that God would certainly condemn no one to eternal punishment for a just act.
Would it in truth be the giving up of his own soul to eternal punishment?
To say, in the face of such a text, that any doctrine which the majority of men dislike, such as eternal punishment, must therefore be untrue, is simply absurd!
But I have a strong suspicion, if the world could be polled, that we should find the greater part of mankind believed in eternal punishment!
The decree of eternal punishment, pronounced by Jesus Christ against the wicked, does not harmonize with Mr. Barlow's notions of morality.
But, argues Mr. Barlow, if the gospel of eternal punishmentbe true, he that goes forth to preach the gospel to the heathen is a curse and not a blessing.
And so, too, we know that the doctrine of eternal punishment is in harmony with the attributes of God, because He that cannot deceive has told us that the doctrine is true.
We are satisfied that this dreadful principle contains the germ of all that Mr. Barlow has written against the doctrine of eternal punishment.
Origen, attempts to unite belief and thought, 41; rejects the doctrine of eternal punishment, 43.
He utterly gave up the idea of eternal punishment, and before he died he had the happiness of believing that God was almost as good and generous as he was himself.
But, after all, what I really want to do is to destroy the idea of eternal punishment.
At this very time, moreover, ground was broken in my mind on a new subject, by opening in a gentleman's library a presentation-copy of a Unitarian treatise against the doctrine of Eternal Punishment.
Did not the first sin of a child justly expose him to eternal punishment?
It is the course on the ‘Nature of Eternal Punishment,’--a most important course.
Somehow--I do not know how--the question of eternal punishment came up among Presbyterians in the United States.
So far as I can remember, none were in favor of eternal punishment.
He said to me, very candidly, that the ministers of the Methodist Church do not believe in eternal punishment; and he said this with such an air of satisfaction that I concluded that he himself took that position.
A sin is mortal or deadly, when by it a person turns away from God, his Last End, and prefers to Him some created good, thereby incurring the debt of eternal punishment.
I have not intended to admit that all the teachers of eternal punishment in the church have been honest.
And yet the great body of Christians, as Professor Shedd would have us believe, were believers in eternal punishment; but they neither turned these men out, nor established any other school to counteract their influence.
I say with the fullest confidence that the doctrine of eternal punishment is not in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures.
All Christ's reference to eternal punishment may be resolved into reference to the Valley of Hinnom, by way of imagery; with the exception of the Dives parable, where is distinctly inferred a moral amendment beyond the grave.
As to the second question--that of eternal punishment, we may certainly here get rid of one difficulty by adopting the doctrine of a final restitution.
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