The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE: Origen’s Multiple Departures From the Faith

To some it may seem useless and wearisome to again traverse Origen’s tangent positions, this time in documented form. But it is imperative that we realize the startling innovations that Origen projected, and the strange positions taken, for these struck at the very heart of the Christian faith as pertains to man’s origin, nature, and destiny. Nevertheless, these vagaries were adopted by an ardent minority forming the third school in the theological trilemma. But these deviations discount the trustworthiness of his universalist conclusions, still widely held today. Note, then, fourteen points in sequence. CFF1 1012.1