Category: History - Religious

Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines

ARTICLE IV.--How the Church of Rome borrowed the doctrine of Endless Hell from the Pagans; and how, afterwards, the self-called Orthodox Protestant Churches borrowed it from the Church of Rome. 170

Chapters

1. CHAPTER III.

2. CHAPTER VI.

3. CHAPTER VII.

ARTICLE IV.--How the Church of Rome borrowed the doctrine of Endless Hell from the Pagans; and how, afterwards, the self-called Orthodox Protestant Churches borrowed it from the...

4. CHAPTER VIII.

5. CHAPTER IX.

6. CHAPTER X.

7. CHAPTER XI.

8. CHAPTER I.

IT seems to be an undeniable fact, that, before the coming of Jesus Christ, nations had immemorially and universally believed, that the universe, or nature, was an uncreated but...

9. CHAPTER II.

WHETHER the word mystery is derived from the Greek _muo_, I close, or from _mueo_, I teach, is not an important question, for the word mystery has always implied the double idea...

10. CHAPTER III.

THE celebrated Plutarch, historian, philosopher, and priest of Apollo, in the first century of the Christian era, thus writes: "We ought not to believe that the Principles of th...

11. CHAPTER IV.

THE Roman Catholic writers are unanimous in the opinion that it was the belief of a large number of Pagans that man had fallen from a higher state of existence. St. Augustine, m...

12. CHAPTER V.

THE Roman Catholic writers themselves confess that the Pagans believed in Trinity; also the most of the self-called Protestant Orthodox historians and authors. The neutral autho...

13. CHAPTER VI.

IT will be demonstrated that the doctrine of the supreme divinity of Jesus Christ is of Pagan origin, if it can be proved, 1st, That the Church of Rome, from which the self-call...

14. CHAPTER VII.

THE rulers of nations, and the authors of the initiations, had a profound knowledge of the human nature, and of the genius of the people. From the fact that an ox, unaware of hi...

15. CHAPTER VIII.

IT will be evident that the origin of the doctrine of a first judgment, by Jesus Christ, immediately after the separation of the soul from the body, is Pagan, if it can be prove...

16. CHAPTER IX.

IF it is proved, 1st, That in the first centuries of the Christian era, and before the coming of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of the resurrection of the body was held by a large n...

17. CHAPTER X.

THE Church of Rome and the other Partialist Christian Churches profess to believe that, at the end of the world, a general judgment of all the then living, and of all the dead,...

18. CHAPTER XI.

THE doctrine of Vicarious Atonement supposes the dogma of a Personal Devil, the dogma of Original Sin, the dogma of Trinity, and the dogma of the Supreme Divinity of Jesus Chris...