For some reason I never read the Apocalypse/Revelation of Peter on my first pass through of the early Church writings. Not to be confused with the Gnostic book of the same name, this book was written in the early 2nd century (approx. 135), widely read among early Christians along with John's Revelation, considered authoritarial by early Christian writers like Clement of Alexandria, and found in the list of authoritative, pre-canonical books in the Muratorian Fragment.
The portion of the book that survives gives us a vision of those in heaven and the plight of those who find themselves in hell in a pre-Dante's Inferno fashion. The two passages that stood out to me in this work were:
Obviously I don't think there's anything inspired about this text, but it's interesting from a historical perspective in understanding the views of the early church and what they considered sinful. Not that anymore evidence is needed, but it's another refutation to the lie that the sinfulness of homosexuality and abortion are relatively modern concepts.
The portion of the book that survives gives us a vision of those in heaven and the plight of those who find themselves in hell in a pre-Dante's Inferno fashion. The two passages that stood out to me in this work were:
Obviously I don't think there's anything inspired about this text, but it's interesting from a historical perspective in understanding the views of the early church and what they considered sinful. Not that anymore evidence is needed, but it's another refutation to the lie that the sinfulness of homosexuality and abortion are relatively modern concepts.
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