Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 -1898) is better known by the pseudonym "Lewis
Carroll". Although he was a mathematician, he is best known as the
author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through
the Looking Glass (1872), children's books that are among the most
popular of all time.
From
the belief that God is perfectly good, I conclude, as necessary
sequences, that he will take account
of all circumstances in judging of
any action of man - that he will not punish, except for wilful sin,
where
the sinner was free to chose good or evil - that he will not
punish for ever any one who desires to repent,
and to turn from sin. If
any one says "it is certain that the Bible teaches that, when once a
man
is in Hell,
no matter how much he repents, there he will stay for
ever," I reply "if I were certain the Bible taught that,
I would give
up the Bible.