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Old 04-13-2009, 08:03 PM   #1
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Default Early conceptions of Heaven

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From the early second century, we have a fragment of one of the lost volumes of Papias, a Christian bishop, who expounded that "heaven" was separated into three distinct layers. He referred to the first as just "heaven", the second as "paradise", and the third as "the city". Papias taught that "there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce a hundredfold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold".

In the 2nd century CE, Irenaeus (a Greek bishop) wrote that not all who are saved would merit an abode in heaven itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven#...istian_writing

Surely there must be a FARMS/FAIR article about this.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven#...istian_writing

Surely there must be a FARMS/FAIR article about this.
You should read this book if you haven't already, if you're interested in this area.

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christian...tt_at_ep_dpi_3
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