God ultimately redeems every human being, according to a widespread false doctrine. Universal redemption comes through universal reconciliation and all people, because God accepts all people, no matter who they are, and therefore one can remain as one is. This dangerous thesis is “necessary” for ecumenism and the creation religion that is being introduced, but it has absolutely nothing in common with the gospel.
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“God will redeem all people”
Increasingly, one encounters statements that God will ultimately declare all people righteous. Some sooner, others later. God loves all people and will therefore redeem all. For unbelievers, the “Final Judgment” represents a kind of chastisement, in which the realization of all sins and failings in the mind and heart will be revealed to all. For unbelievers, this is “hell,” but in the end, all will emerge purified and enter eternal life declared righteous. A fantastic story, but one that will cause a very “real shock” for many people.
Supposed evidence only through verse scraps
However, the theses of a complete reconciliation with humanity are not the outgrowth of some small circles of misguided congregations, but can also be increasingly heard and read in the major churches in Germany. Usually in a watered-down form, along the lines of “God accepts everyone as they are, and everyone can remain as they are.” Only minor “tweakments” in life are needed, but otherwise everything is fine as it is.
The supposed evidence for such erroneous claims that God ultimately redeems all people is usually cited as quotations or parts of verses taken from the Bible without any context. Unfortunately, the fact that the crude hypothesis of “universal salvation” would overturn the entire gospel is only noticeable to those who read the Bible independently and recognize the connections. After all, the Word of God was given to us humans solely so that we can recognize the way out of the consequences of sin. It “simply” has to be read for ourselves.
Simple, convenient, ecumenical
But since we’ve become a “very comfortable” society these days, such “apologists” have a relatively easy time. The supposed universal salvation sounds “wonderfully tempting and simple.” There’s no need to worry at all, let alone change one’s life and behavior.
A supposed salvation of all people also fits seamlessly into ecumenism. Thus, this “theology” becomes universal and independent of the gospel. Given this carefree life in faith or unbelief, one can focus on the themes declared essential. These include, in addition to the merging of all religions under the umbrella of the moral-political overseer in Rome, a focus on creation. The focus is not on the Creator, which could raise uncomfortable questions within the context of the different faiths, but on creation. After all, creation is visible, tangible, and cannot be denied. Humanity, after all, lives in the midst of it, and now it is time to unite people into one family in order to preserve, venerate, and even worship this creation in a certain form.
With all redemption gospel would be redundant
The most fundamental question in the case of universal salvation would be the reason for Jesus’ sacrificial death. If God redeemed all people, whether with or without the defined “hell of guilty conscience,” then there would have been no reason at all for Jesus’ sacrifice. Jesus himself came into the world to free people from their sins, or in that sense, to save the world. Why, if there is universal salvation? In this case, it would be irrelevant whether someone has sinned or not.
Purely “Ignatian ideology”
It is obvious that the thesis of the salvation of all humankind and its proponents, individually and as a body, were born of the “spirit of the Ignatians.” The handwriting of these scholastics is unmistakable. They also teach that faith cannot be gained from Scripture, but from one’s own heart and soul. In short, they twist the Gospel into its opposite and declare the Word of God superfluous. They misuse the name of Jesus to name their “military brotherhood,” thus dishonoring His name through their actions. They hate the Son of God through and through. But what can these people actually do against the Word of God? They will stumble, completely.
At this point, the advice of Ephesians 6:11-12 helps every sincere believer:
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
The armor described here is precisely this gospel, which the adversaries have not managed to eradicate in well over 1,200 years.
Nothing speaks for a universal salvation
Only a few verses are needed to refute the thesis that “God declares all people righteous.” It would be enough to present the fragments of verse used by these “apologists” in their entirety and in context to debunk their fantasies. A universal reconciliation of God would render the gospel completely obsolete. The Old and New Testaments, in essence, deal exclusively with the path to salvation for humanity. Picking out individual verses to refute universal reconciliation is actually a tiresome topic, since the entire Word of God, the gospel (“the good news of victory”), has salvation through Jesus Christ at its core.
John 14:6
Jesus Christ said in John 14:6:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
This is where it gets “very difficult” for everyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. All redemption is not compatible here.
Revelation 20:13-15
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
This statement alone clearly shows that there will also be no all-redemption at the Last Judgment. The “second death” mentioned here is the final death, irrevocable, the cessation of existence. This also makes it clear that there is no eternally burning and excruciating hell. Again, this is just a frightening notion of the Roman Catholic Church , on whose behalf those are on the road and want to tell the world something about the universal redemption of mankind. These people are members of “Babylon” and this consists of Satan himself as well as the “beast” and the “false prophet”.
This Babylon will be completely destroyed, also in Revelation 20:9-10:
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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