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    It is not the case that There are exactly three primary eschatological views.

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    • 1.Origen's universalism and Aquinas's limbo doctrine represent distinct eschatological positions that do not map cleanly onto any of the three primary categories.
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    • 2.Historical Christian eschatology includes positions on purgatory, soul sleep, and annihilation that generate combinatorial views exceeding three primary types.
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    • 3.A taxonomy requiring exactly three categories commits the fallacy of false partition when the logical space of rejected propositions yields more than three coherent positions.
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    • 1.Non-Christian eschatological frameworks—including Buddhist rebirth, Zoroastrian renovation, and Jewish Sheol traditions—constitute primary views within the broader domain of eschatology.
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    • 2.Restricting 'primary eschatological views' to three options presupposes a specifically Christian propositional framework, smuggling a sectarian assumption into a purportedly exhaustive classification.
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    • 1.The set of three propositions is logically inconsistent, so at least one must be rejected.
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    • 2.Virtually every mainline Christian theologian accepts at least two of the three propositions.
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    • 3.A theologian can be classified according to which of the three propositions they reject.
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