Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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eternal punishment in one and the same hell, irrespective of the number and nature of their sins. But this is clearly absurd.
In the third place, to deny a chance of repentance to erring humanity and to doom them to a life of eternal torment, out of all proportion to the nature and consequences of their sins, may be in harmony with the disposition of the king of hell; but it is utterly incompatible with the mercy and dignity, to say nothing of the justice, of the Heavenly Father, as the God of the Judgment Day is said to be.
Those who have been fondly cherishing the hope of becoming re-united with their wives and children and friends in the proruised land of paradise, will find the ground cut away from under their feet by no less an authority than the founder of their Faith himself. The observations which he made, while addressing the Sadducees, about the resurrection (Luke, XX. 27; Mark, XII. 18) with reference to the hypothetical case of the woman who had married several brothers in succession here on earth, are definite enough to knock all such beliefs on the head. He then said :
"The children of this world marry and are given in marriage ; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of God being the children of resurrection. And as touching the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of dead but the God of the living: Ye therefore do greatly err."
We find not only no trace of a belief in the