Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 343

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343. The Mohammedans too have a heaven, because all throughout the world are saved who acknowledge God and for religious reasons shun evils as sins against Him. I have been told by Mohammedans themselves that their heaven is divided into two, a higher and a lower one. In the lower heaven they live with as many wives or mistresses as in the world. But those who forswear their mistresses and live with one wife are raised into the higher heaven. I was also told that they find it impossible to think of our Lord as one with God the Father, but they can think of Him as equal, and as being given power over heaven and earth, because He is His Son. This therefore is what those of them believe who are allowed by the Lord to rise into the higher heaven.


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