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The earliest Christians hardly believed such silliness. They thought everything was destined to go up in smoke.
Calvinism, like Roman Catholicism, is different than the original, sometimes wildly so.
The heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. ... the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
-- II Peter 3:7, 10
