How can God's justice be fulfilled in UR if everyone is saved in the end?
Is the wrath of God absent in Christian Universalism?
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How can God's justice be fulfilled in UR if everyone is saved in the end?
God's justice is fulfilled by the destruction of mankind. Since all mankind has sinned, all mankind must die:
Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
And because mankind must die, scripture says that mankind is "condemned already":
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Because mankind was created spiritually marred (weak), we all very quickly from birth become
carnally minded. Because of our carnal mindedness, mankind has no ability to seek out and understand God; and we certainly no ability to have any faith in Jesus Christ:
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 3:10 As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
1Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Because all mankind utterly lost, the only way for a person to be saved is for Christ to make them into a
new creation. This new creation is a child of God who is sinless and is governed by the Holy Spirit.
To accomplish this work of "conversion", the Father sent Christ into the world. When He has finished His work, all mankind will be made into "another vessel" which will never sin and is therefore, not condemned.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
This is how God's justice is satisfied, while at the same time satisfying both "mercy and faith":
Mat 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Joe