Tag: Patristic Theology

• Children of God – Part 3: Understanding of the Early Church Fathers

  

  And How the Early Greek Fathers Harmonized John and Paul Without Eternal Torment The earliest Greek-speaking Church Fathers approached Scripture within a theological framework shaped by creation, incarnation, and restoration. Long before later Western debates about eternal punishment hardened into rigid systems, these theologians read John and Paul as presenting a unified vision of humanity’s…

  Brother Roger

  February 5, 2026

  Biblical Children, Church History, Patristics

  Christian Universalism, Early Church Fathers, Greek Patristics, Gregory of Nyssa, Irenaeus, Origen, Patristic Theology, Restoration

• Matthew 8:11-12 and Luke 13:24-30

  

  Matthew 8:11-12, “Many coming from east and west, reclining at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the sons of the kingdom being cast out into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,” and its parallel but more in depth passage in Luke 13:22-30 present…

  Brother Roger

  January 30, 2026

  Biblical Studies, Character of God, Eternal Torture, Fallacy of eternal conscious torment,, Judgment & Holiness

  Aiōnios, Annihilationism, Apokatastasis, Biblical Greek, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Universalism Luke 13:22-30 Biblical Interpretation Eschatology Hell and Salvation Greek New Testament Early Church Fathers Universal Reconciliation, Church Fathers, Conditional Immortality, Divine Judgment, Divine Love and Justice, Early Church Fathers, Eschatology, Eternal Punishment, Greek New Testament, Gregory of Nyssa, Hell and Salvation, Luke 13:22-30, Matthew 8:12, Narrow Door, Origen of Alexandria, Patristic Theology, Restorative Justice, Septuagint, Universal Reconciliation, Universalism vs Traditionalism, Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth