“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature…for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that that believeth…Repent and believe the gospel…[God] commandeth all men everywhere to repent…except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
Christ’ s death was sufficient to save all men, but only efficient to save those who believe. The Universalists attempt to make what is true only of all repentant believers to be factual for all mankind. Rather than the Biblical teaching of conditional salvation, they make it unconditional.
They will not accept the scriptural truth of eternal punishment for those who reject Christ as God’s only way for man’s salvation. Yet it is through Jesus Christ himself that we learn most clearly the doctrine of eternal retribution. Jesus told the people of His day, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” It is impossible for anyone to misinterpret this text, unless he or she is as crooked as a cork-screw.
John 3:16 is the one proof text that causes Universalism’s house to crumble. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." By the two texts just quoted we find that as long as there is an eternal Heaven for Christ’s own, there will be an everlasting Hell for those who reject Him. And both will be consciously aware, whether it be bliss or suffering.
God’s love for mankind ends at the grave; after that, the judgment!
Christ’ s death was sufficient to save all men, but only efficient to save those who believe. The Universalists attempt to make what is true only of all repentant believers to be factual for all mankind. Rather than the Biblical teaching of conditional salvation, they make it unconditional.
They will not accept the scriptural truth of eternal punishment for those who reject Christ as God’s only way for man’s salvation. Yet it is through Jesus Christ himself that we learn most clearly the doctrine of eternal retribution. Jesus told the people of His day, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” It is impossible for anyone to misinterpret this text, unless he or she is as crooked as a cork-screw.
John 3:16 is the one proof text that causes Universalism’s house to crumble. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." By the two texts just quoted we find that as long as there is an eternal Heaven for Christ’s own, there will be an everlasting Hell for those who reject Him. And both will be consciously aware, whether it be bliss or suffering.
God’s love for mankind ends at the grave; after that, the judgment!
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