No SS,,,,it's not a good defense for universalism.
This is because universalism is not found in the NT.
Are you sure?
Acts 3:21 NIV
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
Read Romans 8:21 ALL OF CREATION suffered from the fall....ALL OF CREATIONS will be restored.
That actually supports Universalism. All of creation will be restored.
1 John 2:2 NIV
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Jesus died for THE WHOLE WORLD....
His sacrifice was sufficient to save everyone THAT WANTS TO BE SAVED.
Read John 3:16
Read Acts 16:31
That actually supports Universalism. There is no caveat in the verse.
I have also said repeatedly that all three doctrines of the final judgement are biblical and contradictory.
So, I am not surprised, nor dissuaded, that you can cite contradictions.
Romans 11:32, 36
32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
From Him, Through Him and In Him is a deep theological discussion and I'm not having it here.
You make it to be too plain.
And wow, Romans 11:32 when Paul is teaching that the Gentiles were ESTRANGED from God but now have the opportunity to belong to the Body. Bad pick SS. It proves we can be estranged from God.
Who is there other than Jews and gentiles? That covers everyone. So, "all" = all.
Titus 2:11 ESV
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
Ditto.
You can't accept that there are conditions to being saved.
You really believe a holy God will let everyone in?
Read Revelation 21:27
Nothing unclean is getting in.
To know what unclean is read about the marriage banquet in Matthew.
I have said repeatedly that no one gets into heaven free. You have yet to remember that.
John 1:29 NIV
... The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,
“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Yes Sir. You do like these verses.
Problem is.....you must accept all verses in the NT.
Not just the ones that sound pleasant to you personally.
You told me originally that the NT says NOTHING about Universalism. - LOL
Now you criticize me for liking what I found? Get real.
Why do I have to accept your verses while you reject mine?
That saw should cut both ways.
1 Timothy 4:10 NIV
That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God,
who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.
Especially of those who believe.
Do ALL persons believe in God?
The savior of all people. Does "all" = only some?
Those who believe are a subset of all people. (who are saved)
1 John 4:14 NIV
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Romans 5:15-16
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man,
how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin:
The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
Romans 5:18-19 NIV
Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people,
so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.
19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners,
so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Colossians 1:19-20
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
1 Timothy 2:1-6
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.
Romans 3:24 NIV
and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Romans 9:16 NIV
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
James 2:13 NIV
... Mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 John 4:18 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Mark 9:49 NIV
Everyone will be salted with fire.
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Well, that's all I have time for.
Your verses do NOT support your belief system.
AND,,,,I'm not playing verse ping pong with you.
You can believe what you will...
but it is NOT biblical because universalism was NEVER taught either in the NT
or after the NT or EVER until, if I remember correctly, about the 1800's.
You told me originally that the NT says NOTHING about Universalism.
Now you tell me it is too much for you to handle. - LOL
Universalism from the 1800s? - LOL (you are sadly mistaken)
Here are a couple of topics on the origins of Universalism. (Apokatastasis)
When many hear about Apokatastasis (the restoration of all things), Universalism, Christian Universalism, Universal Restoration, Universal Reconciliation, Ultimate Redemption, Ultimate Reconciliation, UR... There is an assumption that this is a new idea. Something modern liberal theologians...
www.christianityboard.com
Apokatastasis in the Bible
And...
"The Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" by Schaff-Herzog, 1908, volume 12, page 96 German theologian- Philip Schaff, Editor: "In the first five or six centuries of Christianity there were six theological schools, of which four (Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, and Edessa, or Nisibis) were Universalist, one (Ephesus) accepted conditional immortality; one (Carthage or Rome) taught endless punishment of the wicked. Other theological schools are mentioned as founded by Universalists, but their actual doctrine on this subject is not known."
And...
The main Patristic supporters of the apokatastasis theory, such as Bardaisan, Clement, Origin, Didymus, St. Anthony, St. Pamphilus Martyr, Methodius, St. Macrina, St. Gregory of Nyssa (and probably the two other Cappadocians), St. Evagrius Ponticus, Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, St. John of Jerusalem, Rufinus, St. Jerome and St. Augustine (at least initially) … Cassian, St. Issac of Nineveh, St. John of Dalyatha, Ps. Dionysius the Areopagite, probably St. Maximus the Confessor, up to John the Scot Eriugena, and many others, grounded their Christian doctrine of apokatastasis first of all in the Bible.
— Ramelli, Christian Doctrine, 11.
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