The rendering of olam as everlasting here creates a contradiction of massive proportions and makes of the Levitical priesthood something it is not.
Tag: 1 Corinthians 15:22-28
What About the Devil (Part 2)
While not explicitly saying so, the scriptures can be seen barking around that neighborhood – if not overtly, then the Bible certainly seems to be painting that picture for us. I believe it is doing so in four different ways:
Wouldn’t a Loving God Make Sure Everyone Gets to Heaven?
Universalism has been characterized in ways that completely miss the mark and I don’t know if the people I’ve been reading are intellectually lazy or deliberately misleading. One thing is for sure, it is one or the other. A case in point is contained in an article posted to the CrossExamined.org website entitled, Wouldn’t a…
John 12:32
So, God sent snakes into the camp and Israel discovered quickly that their bite was venomous – those bitten died.
Can This Be the Fruit of God’s Adventure?
If the orthodox view of hell is correct, then the devil will have won.
Why the Cross if Everyone Will be Saved?
Why the Cross if Everyone Will be Saved? Everyone will be saved because of the cross (Colossians 1:20). The Biblical Universalist believes that the power of the cross extends far beyond the grave, all the way to the end when Christ submits Himself to the Father and God becomes all in all (1 Corinthians 15:28),…
What is Universal Reconciliation and is it Biblical?
What is Universal Reconciliation and is it Biblical? Universal Reconciliation is also known as Biblical Universalism or Christian Universalism. Well known and widely taught, it was referred to by the early church as the apokatástasis (a Greek word meaning restitution or restoration). The central or core belief is that, in the end (quite literally), having…
Cast From His Presence
To speak of separation from God is to assume that someone could exist without Him. These passages seem conclusive: in Christ all things exist and are held together – upheld by the word of His power. Not a creature exists outside of or separated from Him.
Everlasting Versus Age-Lasting
An amazing thing happens when aion is rendered “age” throughout the New Testament.
God Will Be All in All
This is to be achieved by a magnificent event which is on its way, beyond which we know nothing. A divine event, it seems to be set in the farthest reaches of the future.
1 Corinthians 15:22-28
This passage speaks of the end of the reign and priesthood of Christ. Jesus Christ, all of humanity, and the entire universe of created things will be “all in all”, one with God.
Biblical Universalism 