A THEORY ON HELL
THE OPINION OF A C^DRCHMAM.
i , LONDON, Spptemhey 16The early ■Christians were’so horribly persecuted,: that they naturally adopted the. un-Christian ; ide'd, tliitt a similar fate would /befall their persecutors in the next world.
That, declared Dr. G. G. Coulton, church, historian, at the conference of Modern Churchmen, was the simple explanation of'the ' origin o. the idea of hell' fire. • • - lv '■ •■■ ■"•■■■
There was little respect for human life and suffering; therefore, preachers naturally stressed the gravity o. sin by threatening hell fireC- If -olie declared; that the temperature of hell was 10,00 b degrees ,j another would 'jj immediately double' it.
A wom«n delegate declared that While Christ mentioned ; “burning- with unquenchable fires,” in the same..breath He declared that the righteous ufouM. be gathered to His arms. Nobody pictured the Christians of the future in His iiraJl ibtf’•’gathered'', tor Abraham's; bosom, yet they seized upon interpretation of the flames of hell with the greatest enthusiasm.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 3
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