The Apocalypse of Peter's Shocking Vision of Heaven & Hell | BANNED FROM THE BIBLE

Before Dante, before Inferno, an early Christian book led readers through paradise and the pits—then dared to offer a last-minute escape from hell. In this episode, Derek unpacks the Apocalypse of Peter: discovered in 1886 at Akhmim (Greek fragment) and preserved more fully in Ethiopic, once quoted as Scripture and even read in church—then sidelined and forgotten. We tour its graphic punishments, its luminous heaven, and the explosive “Acherusian lake” mercy clause that likely doomed its canon chances.

What you’ll learn:

- Near-canon, then banned: Clement, the Muratorian Canon, Good Friday readings—and why it vanished
- Hell in vivid detail: “hung by their tongues,” fire wheels, poetic justice for every vice
- Heaven’s brief blaze: garments of light, crystalline brilliance, endless praise
- The twist: intercession of the righteous can pull souls from punishment (the “Easter reprieve”)
- Why it threatened orthodoxy: mercy vs. eternal hell, later scribes trimming the ending
- Cultural mashup: Jewish apocalyptic, Greek Hades terms, philosophical purification, possible Persian echoes
- Long shadow: how this text seeded the Western imagination of the afterlife

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