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TIL an apocryphal book, The Apocalypse of Peter, told that Hell wouldn't always be eternal; that there'd be a way for sinners to leave Hell after already being condemned there. Early Christian leaders considered this book heretical & therefore did not include it in the Biblical canon.

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