The origin and history of the doctrine of endless punishment

Thayer's historical argument that the doctrine of endless torment is not native to the Bible. He surveys the Hebrew scriptures — which he finds silent on endless punishment — and traces the doctrine's actual origins to Egyptian and Greek pagan mythology, from which it seeped into Jewish thought between the testaments and then into the Christian church. A compact and much-reprinted piece of popular scholarship that armed generations of Universalist debaters.

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