Universalism

<<a false teaching>>

This wrong and liberal doctrine (also called ultimate reconciliation) teaches that there is no eternal damnation and ultimately all people will be saved whatever their belief or relationship with God. It maintains a loving God would not choose some people for eternal bliss and doom others to eternal punishment. This ignores the righteousness and justice of God and the Bible’s teaching that the wicked, those that don’t do His will, “go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life” (Ezek 18:4,20; Mt 7:22,23, 25:41,46; Rom 6:22,23; Rev 20:14). A variation of this erroneous teaching is that people will get another opportunity for salvation. Nowhere in the Bible is there any mention of people having a second chance to respond to the offer of salvation in the next life, rather it states “Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement” (Heb 9:27). These false and deceptive concepts of humanity's imagination give people an erronous sense of security.

The Bible clearly speaks of exclusiveness, with Jesus saying, “I am the way…No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jn 14:6; Act 4:12). Yet there is also inclusiveness, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath rests on him” (Jn 1:12, 3:15,16,18,36). It is dependent on

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each person’s individual choice if they want to be saved. The default setting is eternal punishment because of our bias to sin; only those who turn to Christ escape the wrath (Lk 18:17; 1 Thes 1:10; Rev 20:15). While God wants all people saved, not everyone will be, as it requires repentance, a definite turning from their sinful lifestyle and ongoing submission and obedience to His Lordship (1 Tim 2:4; 2 Pet 3:9). If everyone was automatically saved Jesus would not have instructed His followers to “Go and make disciples of all peoples…” (Mt 28:19,20). Potentially Jesus is the Saviour of all people, but only those who believe will actually be saved. He will not override people's freewill.