Hell

OUR FATHER, HELL AND HEAVEN : M. M. NINAN
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supporter of the orthodoxy of Nicaea, Diodore played a pivotal role in the Council of Constantinople and
opposed the anti-Christian policies of Julian the Apostate. Diodore founded one of the most influential centers of
Christian thought in the early church, and many of his students became notable theologians in their own right.
"For the wicked there are punishments, not perpetual, however,
lest the immortality prepared for them should be a disadvantage,
but they are to be purified for a brief period according to the amount of malice in their works.
They shall therefore suffer punishment for a short space,
but immortal blessedness having no end awaits them,
the penalties to be inflicted for their many and grave sins are very far surpassed by the magnitude of the
mercy to be showed them.
The resurrection, therefore, is regarded as a blessing not only to the good, but also to the evil."
John Cassian,
A.D. 390-440.
This celebrated man was educated in the monastery in Bethlehem, and was the founder of two monasteries in
Marseilles. He wrote much, and drew the fire of Augustine, whose doctrines he strenuously assailed.
"I can not admit that God would save only a portion of the human race, and that Christ died only for the
elect."
Hagenbach states
that the erroneous idea that God "would save only a few" is in the opinion of Cassian ingene sacrilegium, a
great sacrilege or blasphemy.
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