The doctrine of conditional immortality is an important one among Bible Students, and a center of increasing debate among evangelicals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what the apostolic fathers wrote about immortality since their perceptions may reflect what was commonly believed in the early church. We can’t be certain of one particular position because there are variations among the apostolic fathers, and proponents of both conditional immortality and innate immortality find support in these writings. Perhaps we can glean some ideas from the variations themselves.
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