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soul's sojourn is not eternal even in the 'hells,' as the Psalmist says:
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"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell."-Ps. xvi. 10.
JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
Those who enter into the Kingdom of Heaven are deemed to have attained Nirvana.
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The following quotations are worthy of note:
But to Christians, after their departure from the world, no restriction of marriage is promised in the day of resurrection, translated as they will be into the condition and sanctity of angels."A.N.C.L. vol. xi. p. 280.
"But that you may know that ignorance of itself brings destruction, (I assure you that) when the soul departs from the body, it is driven forth from the light... as ungrateful and unfaithful.". (Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 314.
"From all these things, therefore, it is concluded that all evil springs from ignorance; and ignorance herself, the mother of all evils, is sprung from carelessness and sloth, and is nourished, and increased, and rooted in the senses of men by negligence; and if any one teach that she is to be put to fight, she is with difficulty and indig. nantly torn away, as from an ancient and hereditary abode... (Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. ii. p. 305.
"But the sole cause of our wanting and being deprived of all these things 18 ignorance. For while men do not know how much good there is in knowledge, they do not suffer the evil of ignorance to be removed from them; for they know not how great a difference is involved in the change of one of these things for the other. Wherefore I counsel every learner willingly to lend his ear to the word of God, and to hear with love of the truth what we say, 'that his mind, receiving the best seed, may bring forth joyful fruits by good deeds."— (Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. 'vol. ii. p. 307.
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. For if any one should take a deadly drug in ignorance, does he not die? So naturally sins destroy the sinner, though he commit them in ignorance of what is right."-(Clementine Homilies) A:N.C.L. vol. xvi. p. 166.
The word destruction does not mean annihilation,
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