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To: Kolokotronis
You’ve cited to +Iraeneus. Here’s what he said:... No natural immortality there, HD.

Dr. Boyce’s article, at least insofar as he speaks of immortality of the soul, isn’t even remotely in accord with what the Fathers taught,


10,356 posted on 11/03/2007 1:27:02 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

“It is rather difficult to argue that St. Iraeneus isn’t saying souls aren’t immortal after they are created....I think Iraeneus if very clear that once God has created a soul, it exists forever.”

Boy, I don’t see where you reconcile what you and Boyce are saying with what +Iraeneus wrote about immortality being a gift from God to the holy. The souls of the wicked are not immortal. That is denied to them.


10,358 posted on 11/03/2007 1:31:51 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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