In Reply to: read the history of theology... posted by ray on June 09, 2004 at 06:08:22:
Of course there is nothing new under the sun, false doctrines will always rear it's ugly head and from what I can see, it just keeps repeating itself!
Here's an interesting url and I put a quote from the article that you might find interesting.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/18/story_1857_1.html
Traditionally, evangelical Christians have understood the Bible to teach that hell is a place of unending physical and psychological punishment that awaits all who die without faith in Jesus Christ, with the possible exception of children who die in infancy, the mentally disabled and those who never hear the gospel. In holding this view, evangelicals have followed a tradition articulated by early church fathers like Tertullian, Jerome and Augustine, by medieval theologians such as Anselm and Thomas Aquinas, and by the mainline protestant reformers. Latterly, however, this view has been challenged by alternative explanations which, though traceable to previous periods of church history, have begun to influence evangelicalism to an unprecedented degree.