I think that which fabricates identity as pastor of the word should be banned. Instead, the powers that be determine often enough they're to be an example in the practice of discernment among the saints on board. We know them to be not so, and by their word of mouth rotten fruit shows they are entirely false.
As many of us have noticed, there are thousands of denominations under the umbrella of Protestantism. All this started to occur after the Reformation. And with the history of cults in the world, Christian cults at that, we've pretty much realized the Bible can be used to sustain any fiction any creator of the latest belief wants to use it for. Does that mean it is God's truth? Of course not.
The words in scripture that tell us the sins of the world were taken upon Christ on the cross is part of what sustains Universalism. Even among Universalist Christians there are differences of opinion as to what sustains the belief.
When you encounter that which is hostile toward the denomination, does it make you wonder? How anyone could be angry, some even hate filled judging by their remarks when in conversation on the topic, that God so loved the world......that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have immortal life.
More than any of those other verses that have and can be applied to sustain Universalism, now wait, watch someone accuse me of being one, (I'm not), this verse is the most compelling as that which convinces the
Universalist.
1 Timothy 4:10
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people,
especially of those who believe.
John 12:32
"And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
Here's my opinion. Like others, it is like unto noses. Everyone has one, some are just more pronounced than others.
If you are a Universalist Christian and have accepted Christ as your savior, you have faith Jesus is savior of the world and you repented, are redeemed as a new creation in Christ, the holy spirit of the Father indwells you and guides you to all truth, as the scriptures say, and you were baptized by water and in the spirit, you're saved!
If you see the world and love the world enough to see God loving the world enough to have inspired Paul to write that letter to Timothy, so be it. Your belief doesn't save the world. Your belief, and what Jesus died to guarantee due to God's grace calling you to his son, is what saves
you! And that my dear sister and brother is what matters.
The one's that hate on you for that don't.
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