Word: consign
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Augustine, for one, consigned them to the eternal flames of hell, though the thought distressed him. "I am, believe me, beset by no small difficulties," he wrote, "and I am quite at a loss what to answer. Though I cannot define the nature of their damnation, yet I do not dare to say that it would have been better for them not to exist than to exist as they now are." Martin Luther agreed with Augustine. John Calvin sidestepped the issue by stressing predestination; if an infant was elected for salvation, Calvin held, lack of baptism could not keep...