The Passing of Satan, Death and Hell - The Solution of the Allegory #250648

The Rev. Thomas Hopkins was the newly installed pastor of the leading Methodist Church of the town of. Kempton. He was a young man full of zeal and be lieved in the literal acceptance of the Bible; and that when it said that the wicked were cast into a lake of fire and therein subjected to everlasting torments, it meant just that. And yet he questioned how to reconcile that view with the state ment that The soul that sinneth it shall die. Just how a soul could be immortal and yet die and then be cast into a lake of fire, and therein, while dead, be eternally tormented was more than he could under stand. And this had given him much worry. But as there were many things in the Bible that equally puzzled him, and as he found it much easier to hold to the theory of the eternal punishment of the12 The Passing of Satan, Death and Hell.