I think you would fit well in the Eastern Orthodox church.

Christ is the savior of all men

they just turning people away from God what about the grace of God through Christ

Thank you

Mark 9:42-45 clv 42 "And whosoever should be snaring one of these little ones who are believing in Me, ideal is it for him rather if a millstone requiring an ass to turn it were lying about his neck and he were cast into the sea. 43 And if your hand should ever be snaring you, strike it off. It is ideal for you to be entering into life maimed, rather than, having two hands, to come away into Gehenna, into the unextinguished fire 44 where their worm is not deceasing and the fire is not going out. 45 And if your foot should be snaring you, strike it off. For it is ideal for you to be entering into life maimed or lame, rather than, having two feet, to be cast into Gehenna, into the unextinguished fire, John 3:36 kjv He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. "shall not see life" Did Judas believe on the Son ? There were Jews who had believed in Jesus (John 8:31) who Jesus said were of their father the devil. There are "children of God" and "children of the devil". Nowhere does the Bible say all are the "children of God".

My favorite concept album is The Seraphic Clockwork by Vanden Plas. It's about a wrong timeline of Judas not betraying Jesus and the diabolical future that happens.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit won’t be forgiven in this age or the age to come so it’s often used as a proof text of ECT. How do we argue against this?

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit won’t be forgiven in this age or the age to come so it’s often used as a proof text of ECT.

I'm not a big McArthur fan, but I don't get how you can say that his point is weak when he is simply making a very logical and most basic, commonly used argument. If you think that Analogia Scriptura is an exegesis of the absolute worst kind, you are opening up a massive can of worms when it comes to MANY other believes that many have held to justify some serious problematic beliefs. Case in point. How do we argue that Jesus is God, contrary to the Jehovah's Witness belief that Jesus was a creation of the Father? You have to use other scriptures like John 1:1 to argue against their main foundational scripture of labeling Jesus as "the first born of all creation". If the first born of all creation is left on its own, then it stands to reason that Jesus was created. Plus, let's use your perspective, but let's turn the tables. In Matt 12:32, regarding the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and the sin that won't be forgiven in this age or the next, if we leave that scripture as is, then it never says forgiveness will eventually happen because it doesn't elaborate more after the next "age". So you would have to give another scripture to help explain that there would be an age of the "next age" to where all will be reconciled by using a reconciliation type scripture. Of course you use this same logic of analogia scriptura. All universalists of every group use it to contradict 'salvation for some', type scriptures. So if you're saying that McArthur's argument is "exegesis of the worst kind", then you're guilty of the same thing and contradicting yourself. Plus, the bigger thing is, I've heard you do it in other videos. Bottom line is, you don't like that argument because it's a legit argument and it does rationally explain the position of "salvation for some". It doesn't mean it's true or false, but it's a fully legit argument that everyone uses whether they know they are using it or not.

no universalist is EVER orthodox. you will find that out come judgement day when you get your chance to plead your case before the Almighty Himself

Judas was the greatest apostle, without him the process wouldn't have happened the way it did. God is the savior of all!

Yessir, another fantastic video. I appreciate all you share!

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Isn‘t Judas the Savior, if you believe in Christianity? As well as the romans, who put him at the cross? Just imagine all of this would not have happend. Would we even remember Jesus if he lived happily to 90 years? So they all played their roles. So I love Judas and so will a loving god. If god puts a single being into hell for eternity, he is not the love and therefore not god. Nothing to fear. I believe in reincarnation anyway. Hitler will probably have to live 10.000 lives until risen into heaven in the year 7.000.000 maybe. Enough time to even purify his soul. Thats god love: He guides us all home. Like a mother that will never drop any kod. Thats the god of love I believe in. Just imagine, an allmighty God could end hell. If he can‘t he is not allmighty. If he doesn‘t want, he is not the love and therefore not God.

Good job. Now it's time to scrutinize likewise that Nicean faith you extolled. i.e. time to study unitarian Christianity.

Look at the Greek. "It would have been better if he had not been born that man." He's just saying Judas would have been better off being born someone else.

Another good verse for "not born" not being the same as not existing (especially for this passage) is Ecclesiastes 6:3 : If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he

Great video as always. Thank you. I don't know if you think this needs to be covered in regards to Universalism but I'm curious as to what you think of Once Saved Always Saved as it pertains to this life.

I like your reasoning abilities. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. God is worthy of our adoration and praise continuously.

Can you also help discover Gnosticism ? It said Satan (Demiurge) took the role of God YHWH and trolling humans at Old Testimant Do you think it is heresy ? Why is it wrong or illogical in the lens of christian universalism.

An excellent explanation once again. Thanks.

I guess one of the things that stumps me with universalism is the passages that say he will save many or a ransom that will pay for many, can you help me with that?

How do we square the passages where Jesus says "Depart from me I NEVER knew you" with the passages that say "from before I formed you in the womb I knew you."

Great video! Keep up the good content!

An excellent presentation. Here are a few more reasons people can get out of hell: THE FORGIVABLE SINS -- "Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not ... either in this age or in the age to come" (Matt. 12:31-32). The wording strongly suggests that all sins except one, including blasphemies against Christ, will be forgiven in the next age if they're not forgiven in this age. (For Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, compare Matt. 12:32 with Eph. 2:7.) BAPTISMS FOR THE DEAD -- In 1 Cor. 15:29, Paul addresses -- and does not condemn (per se) -- the Corinthians' practice of being baptized for the dead. But this practice would have been absurd if one's eternal fate is sealed at death. Also, prayers for the dead were almost universal in the early church. THE DEAD HEAR THE GOSPEL AND LIVE -- "For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may *live in the spirit* according to the will of God" (1 Peter 4:6). (Also see Psalm 68:18, Zech. 9:11-12, Matt. 12:29, Eph. 4:8-10.) WHO IS THIRSTY? -- "The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come'. And let the one who hears say, 'Come'. And let the one who is *thirsty* come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price." (Rev. 22:17) The setting of Rev. 22:17 is the Rev. 21-22 new heaven and new earth, since the "water of life" is also mentioned in Rev. 21:6 & 22:1, and it's the Rev. 21-22 "Bride" who is speaking -- not the "church" or the "lampstands." But who are the thirsty ones? Who else is there? The thirsty ones must be those in the Lake of Fire, located outside the city gates (Rev. 22:14-15), which never close (Rev. 21:25). SODOM RESTORED -- "I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them ... And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before" (Ezek. 16:53,55). In verses 47-55, the pronouns "their" and "they" identify the restored individuals as being those who were destroyed in Gen. 19 because of their abominations (Ezek. 16:50) and for other reasons (Ezek. 16:49). They will first need to be punished and purified in God's symbolic and refining Lake of Fire. DRY BONES LIVE -- "Then he said to me, `Son of man, these bones are the *whole* house of Israel. Behold they say, "Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off."' Therefore prophesy, and say to them, `Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, O my people... And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, O my people. And I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live'" (Ezek. 37:11-14a). BLINDINGS -- God has either directly caused, or permitted, various groups of people to be blinded to the truth (e.g. Mark 4:10-12, Rom. 11:25, 2 Cor. 4:3-4). This would seem to require an unblinded opportunity in the afterlife. DEAFENING SILENCE -- The first 2/3 of the Bible is completely silent about Hell, and the last 1/3 uses the ambiguous-at-best Greek word _aion_ and its derivatives to describe Hell's duration. This makes no sense if (a) God is love and (b) eternal torment is true. There would have been clear and dire warnings on almost every page. For instance, why did Noah infinitely understate the penalty when he warned his neighbors only of a worldwide flood and not of eternal conscious torment? EVENTUAL UNIVERSAL SALVATION EXPLICITLY TAUGHT -- See John 12:32, 17:2, combination of (John 3:35, 6:37), Rom. 5:18-19, 8:19-21, 11:32,36, 14:11 , *1 Cor. 15:22,28* , Eph. 1:10, Phil. 2:10-11, 3:21, Col. 1:20, 1 Tim. 2:3-6, 4:10, Titus 2:11, 1 Pet. 4:6, 1 John 2:2, 4:14, Rev. 5:13, 15:4, 21:5,24-25, 22:2, combination of (Rev. 22:1,14-15,17a,17c), Psalm 22:27,29, 65:2-3, 145:10a, Isa. 25:6-8, 45:22-25, 57:16, Lam. 3:22,31, Ezek. 16:53,55, Mal. 3:2-3. These verses, and many others like them, imply second chances.

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Didymus the Blind is more precise: "It must be noted that αἰώνιος has several meanings: in the expression, “αἰώνιος God,” it means beginningless and endless”; for the divinity is called αἰώνιος by virtue of having neither a beginning nor an end of its existence. But αἰώνιος is something different when used in the expression, “things unseen are αἰώνια”: for these things are not αἰώνια in the way God is, but rather because they do not perish but remain forever in the same condition. And αἰώνιος is meant differently again when it is measured against present time, as when it is said: “the sons of this αἰών are wiser in their generation”; for the time that extends over the life of a human being is also called an αἰών." (Com. on Job, 76).

They past away at the cross, the law that is!

Good summary! Funny I assumed you were EO as well.

Good words, my brother!

I will take Jesus at his word, the finished work of the cross, John 19.30, and Jesus will literally drag, all people to himself, John 12:32, enough said!!!

First off there is no hell in the true Hebrew or Greek scriptures from cover to cover, Jesus never said it and his apostles never taught it, and second off so far in your reconciliation text, you haven't mentioned 2 Corinthians 5:18 and 19 which is the same as the Colossians text, that was God was in Christ, reconciling the cosmos to himself,!!! You're right about the reconciliation business, and you're dead wrong about Hell, hell is purely a pagan myth, and is not in the Bible from cover to cover, Hell came to us, Viva la Latin Vulgate, thanks to Mr Augustine,!!!!!!!

Hi, thanks for sharing. I am wondering why you believe that there will always be eternal hell?

The Bible teaches REINCARNATION.......see Job 33 : 29-30 for example . Jesus taught reincarnation.....this is easily proven in the New Testament scriptures . Judaism still teaches reincarnation to this day . The first true "church" taught reincarnation until the false Roman Church (antichrist) outlawed the teaching and removed scriptures at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 AD . The "lake of fire" or the "second death" in Revelation is the process and cycle of reincarnation . "Where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched" ( Mark 9 : 44, 46, 48 ) The "worm" is the maggot that consumes the dead body after death and the "fire" is the trials, pain and suffering of this world that "refines" and perfects (matures) the "spirit" that we really are . This process is the result of our own "carnal minds" ( also called the "serpent", the "devil" and "Satan" ). Also called "karma" or the law of cause and consequences that governs this physical reality (world) . "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap ." ( Galatians 6:7 ) The Apostle Paul called this process "the law of sin and death" ( karma and reincarnation ) that we need to be freed from in Romans 8:2 .......which is what the death of Christ did when he paid our "sin debt" . But only if we deny our "self" and "crucify" or put to death our "flesh" (carnal mind) and "follow Him" as He commanded . "That old serpent called the devil and Satan (man's own carnal mind) that DECEIVES the whole world ." ( Revelation 12:9 )

I'm somewhat of a "semi Christian Universalist". I do believe "with God all things are possible". This brings me much hope. But there is one thing that concerns me. If everyone will eventually be purified and saved, why should anyone become a follower of Jesus? Since everyone will be saved at some point anyway. I get that God is perfect,and if we follow Him, we can stay out of much trouble and have blessings in this life. Maybe by accepting Him and following Him, we don't go through so much "purifying fire" in the afterlife? I don't know. A lot of it sounds really good, and some things don't feel quite right. Not wanting debate or arguments. Looking for good insights/opinions.

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I was wondering if a person can give up on God permanently

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Sorry, can't get on-board with a literal hell where God tortures/torments/punishes anyone for period of time. For me, that would make him a monster. I do appreciate your channel though. I do believe that Universalism is closest to the overall message of the Bible.

Thank you so much for presenting these reflections in easily accessible language that I can understand and with arguments that I can follow!

If Jesus paid the legal debt for everyone on the cross, than everyone can be saved, whether someone can reject that gift in finality I'm still on the fence about

Sounds like some New Age idea or weird OCCULT thinking! God's Grace and Mercy is endless but WE CHOOSE Him or we choose Hell

Orthodox and Universalist are mutually exclusive terms.

If you're protestant but not calvinist this is really the only logical position you can hold. But I have great news Jesus did give us universal salvation through the Catholic (greek katholikos literally "Universal") Church.

Yes and amen! I was first revealed this is scripture, conflicted and wrestled with the holy Spirit for over 10 years, until the conviction and confirmation was too great to bear. Now, I'm free to share THE GOOD NEWS! E.C.T. tarnishes the character of God and diminishes the ultimate work of the cross. Christus Victor! Hallelujah!

Yep. Gregory and Maximos were both Universalists. All early Christians were.

I attended a southern Baptist church also and I believe all will eventually be saved.

I wanted to ask you if there is any websites or place online that you know of where you can read academic/scholarly literature on the topic of Universalism. Just anything regarding the topic, Biblical passages and Hermeneutics, Church history or eschatology or whatever. I really felt the calling to really study this topic in depth but I am finding it hard to find answers to questions I have. Let me know, I will appreciate it!

Whats the unnamed book he mentions?

How do you explain verses that talk about a "second death" and that the wicked will be destroyed both body and soul etc? Genuinely curious.