Tag: Universal Restoration
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How and When the Doctrine of Hell and Eternal Conscious Torment Developed
For the first few centuries of Christianity, many theologians understood God’s judgments primarily as corrective and restorative, not purely punitive. Yet by the Middle Ages, Western Christianity largely assumed that divine punishment meant endless retributive torment. What happened? The shift did not occur because new biblical texts were discovered. Instead, it emerged from a complex…
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Predestination Ain’t Complicated: God’s Plan Was Jesus All Along
This Ain’t About Luck — It’s About God’s Plan. Folks hear the word “predestination” and think it means God picked some people and rejected the rest before anybody was born. That idea can make God seem cold and distant. But when you read the Bible closely, you see something entirely different. Predestination ain’t about God…
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John 3:16 – A Universalist Passage
Some verses in the Bible get so familiar, we stop really hearing them. John 3:16 is one of those. Most of us learned it as kids. We saw it on posters. Some folks even painted it on football helmets. “For God so loved the world…” And we think we already know what that means. But…