The Dogma of Eternal Death I wanted to restart or at least simplify my previous project on Universal reconciliation. Rather than make things really thorough and possibly boring (as well as laborious). Instead I'm going to make things really, really simple. If you are Orthodox (Eastern or Oriental) or Catholic the eternity of Hell is dogma. Basically an authoritative teaching, asserted without question, reservation, and so forth. It is a teaching like many other theological developments, i.e. the Trinity, Christologica statements, virgin birth and ever Virginity of Mary, etc. Something that comes by way of Tradition, seen in the scriptures and testified by the Fathers, but not necessarily something that would be seen in early Judaism. (Which should not be suprising since there are many words in hebrew with vague or indefite meanings, and there is a huge ammount of theological developement within Judaism from the time of Abraham to the incarnation of Jesus). This dogma has been taught almost unanimously, except by 3 distinct groups 1) Gnostics (especially Valentians). 2) Some Church Fathers who were heavily involved in Neo Platonic thought. and 3) Contemporary Liberal Protestants. Anyway in the coming days, I will go through and walk through the developement of this dogma, step by step.