Universal Salvation

Universalism is the belief that everyone will ultimately be saved, that all people will eventually end up in heaven. The very idea of men and women living a life of “eternal torment” in hell is simply an irreconcilable doctrine to the universalist. Their argument goes like this — if you accept the assumptions that God loves all people and desires their redemption, and that He is truly all powerful, then by deductive reasoning you must believe that God is going to ultimately save all people. Furthermore, they maintain that if you reject universalism, you must reject at least one of these assumptions. Essentially, this is the universalist’s application of the Western “law of non-contradiction.” Let me illustrate the law — let’s suppose someone says they have a immaculate, cherry red 1960 Corvette in their garage (at a given location) — the law of noncontradiction says either that is statement is true or it is untrue, that both positions can’t be right. That is the way the typical logician argues. The problem with such logic is that it is somewhat narrow in scope, it disallows for any paradoxical truth-claims, and it rejects any consideration outside of the parameters they establish. Universalists like to use this law as the “final test of truth” — thus they “put God in a box” and make Him conform to human logic. Essentially, this is just another form of “circular reasoning” — you begin by stating presuppositions that you believe express absolute reality, and then you proceed to make all deductions from there.