- UNIVERSALIST
ju.nə'vər.səl.əst adjective. Believing all humanity will (eventually) be saved.
I’ve mentioned before how
Y’see, these folks figure God is love. Don’t we Christians teach that? Why yes we do.
Now I agree God’s unlikely to smite people for honest mistakes. I just seriously doubt the bulk of humanity’s mistakes are honest ones. Lots of us embrace our God-beliefs purely out of convenience, pragmatism, or selfishness. That Iranian who’s never gonna hear the gospel: He already wouldn’t listen to it if offered. If he honestly wanted to hear the gospel, it doesn’t matter what filters his nation puts on the internet; he’d track down Christians and ask questions. Maybe Jesus would personally appear to him, just as he has throughout Christian history, beginning with Paul. (No, that wasn’t just a one-time deal.) Or that American whose parents raised her as a militant
Honest mistakes
It’s a risky little game they’re playing, for Christ Jesus said not everyone’s getting saved.
Matthew 7.21-24 KWL - 21 “Not everyone who calls me, ‘Master, master!’ will enter the heavenly kingdom.
- Just the one who does my heavenly Father’s will.
- 22 At that time, many will tell me, ‘Master, master! Didn’t we prophesy in your name?
- Didn’t we throw out demons in your name? Didn’t we do many powerful things in your name?’
- 23 And I’ll explain to them, ‘I never knew you.
- Get away from me, all you Law-breakers.’”
That’s the people who really thought they were Christian. How much chance does the “honestly mistaken” nontheist have? Well,
Though God absolutely does wants everyone saved,
They’re really gonna hate the alternative, though.