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Christian universalism - Wikipedia
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Christian universalism is a school of Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will ultimately be saved and restored to a right relationship with God. "Christian universalism" and "the belief or hope in the universal reconciliation through Christ" can be understood as synonyms.<a href="Christian universalism - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> Opponents of this school hold that eternal damnation is the ultimate fate of some or most people
Basically this is the belief that everyone will ultimately be saved.
There seems to be a lot of disagreement on the timing of these between the churches that adhere to this doctrine.
The Universalist doctrine does not believe in annihilation. Everyone lives forever. However, they believe everyone is ultimately saved
and no one stays in hell/lake of fire.
Some believe the wicked will go hell for a "short" stay.... this seems to vary church by church. Maybe for a few minutes, maybe a few weeks, maybe a year or two at the longest.
Others believe no one will ever go to hell or the Lake of Fire... ever, at all.
Yet others believe some will go the lake of Fire for possibly a "very long time", this is hard to pin down on the internet, but it seems it could be as
long as tens of thousands of years. But again, ultimately, once penance is paid they will be saved.
Bible verses used to support this are...
- 1 Timothy 2:3-4: "This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
- 1 John 2:2: "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world."
- Philippians 2:10-11: "So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
- Romans 5:18: "Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men."
- Colossians 1:19-20: "For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross."