Jesus used parables as object lessons, highlighting things that were very familiar to the people he was addressing, to make a point: wedding feasts, ceremonies, and doweries; vineyards and harvests; stewards and, yes, shepherds. The work of a shepherd was very familiar to most Jews of that day. A common occupation among them, most knew…
Tag: All in All
A 3rd Rail Issue
The rendering of olam as everlasting here creates a contradiction of massive proportions and makes of the Levitical priesthood something it is not.
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.
An Unstoppable Force
“Listen to Me” says God to the descendants of Jacob, “I have made you – you haven’t made me, and I have been carrying you since you’ve been born.” What irony!
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…
The Mishandling of the Ages
The absurdity of an all-powerful God being unable to save those that He loves and for whom He paid an enormous price vanishes in the light of a complete victory that has been His purpose since before the ages began.
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 