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It’s been my experience that if you have read ONE book (or booklet) on universal salvation, you’ve essentially read them all, because they contain the same, standard biblical proofs—yet overlooking what are, arguably, the GREATEST PROOFS of all!
1) Wouldn’t it be reasonable to suppose that God would include universal salvation in a prophecy found repeatedly throughout the Old and New Testaments?
2) Wouldn’t God prophesy of all of mankind’s resurrection in the Resurrection Chapter, I Corinthians 15?
3) Wouldn’t God do what most authors of books and movies do, and give a happy ending to the end of His Book? Yet seemingly all Bible teachers claim the Book of Revelation does not contain such an ending. It was, supposedly, ONLY for the apostle Paul to complete the Word of God.
–Ken
Ken,
Thanks for your post.
Your points are easily answered.
1) God does prophesy throughout the Bible of the salvation of all! Here are examples of verses that show the salvation of all mankind:
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great;
and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3).
“All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the
kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee” (Psalm 22:27).
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it” (Isaiah 2:2).
“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the
crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all
flesh shall see the salvation of God” (Luke 3:5-6).
“That was the true Light [Jesus Christ], which lighteth every man that cometh into the
world” (John 1:9).
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
“… This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world” (John 4:42).
“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32).
“Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which
God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began” (Acts
3:21).
“For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification
of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience
of One shall many be made righteous” (Romans 5:17-19).
“For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through
their unbelief: even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they
also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have
mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known
the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him,
and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him,
are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Romans 11:30-36).
“For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all,
then were all dead … To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word
of reconciliation” (II Corinthians 5:14, 19).
“That in the dispensation of the fulness of times He might gather together in one all
things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him”
(Ephesians 1:10).
“And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things
unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven”
(Colossians 1:20).
“Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (I Timothy
2:6).
“For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God,
Who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe” (I Timothy 4:10).
“And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world” (I John 2:2).
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things
are passed away” (Revelation 21:4).
2) God did prophesy about all mankind’s salvation in I Corinthians 15.
“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as
in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own
order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. Then cometh
the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when
He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He
hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For
He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him, it
is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him. And when all things
shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put
all things under Him, that God may be all in all” (I Corinthians 15:21-28).
3) God does do what most authors do. He does reveal a happy ending at the end of His book. The order of the NT as we have it is man-made. There is something beyond the book of Revelation. It is the consummation of all things – the dispensation of the fullness of times – as found in the revelation of Paul’s epistles.