Mat 12:31-32 Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven […]
Hell
Does God Damn Sinners to Hell
by the Elder Joseph (†) of the Vatopedion Monastery To this persistent and curious question, posed by those who are not aware, we would like to give a brief reply based on the Holy Bible and the Fathers. The God-designed creation of Man included self-government in his choices and his decision-making, and the element of […]
Ante-Nicene Views of Hell
Ignatius of Antioch [A.D. 110] “Corrupters of families will not inherit the kingdom of God. And if they who do these things according to the flesh suffer death, how much more if a man corrupt by evil teaching the faith of God for the sake of which Jesus Christ was crucified? A man become so […]
Chrysostom on Hell (II)
John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) [give me Chrysostom over today’s neo-orthodox writers and views of the last 75 years any day) “(Hell) It is a sea of fire—not a sea of the kind or dimensions we know here, but much larger and fiercer, with waves made of fire, fire of a strange and fearsome kind. There […]