Christian faith and hope

Consider that we have said these things for your sake, since when we are examined it is within our power to deny who we are. But we do not wish to live by lying. Desiring the eternal and pure life, we seek the life with God, the Father and Creator of all, and we hasten to confess, persuaded and believing that those who have shown God by their deeds that they followed him and longed for life with him, where no evil opposes them, can attain these things. In brief, this is what we expect, what we have learned through Christ, and what we teach. Plato likewise said that Rhadamanthus and Minos would punish the unjust when they came before them. We say that the same thing will happen, but through Christ, and that the unjust will be punished eternally when their bodies are reunited with their souls—not merely for a thousand-year cycle, as Plato said. If someone says this is unbelievable or impossible, then the error is ours and no one else’s, so long as we are not proved to do anything wrong in practice.