What does the traditional creed require? It practically requires a mutilated Bible. More than this, it bids us to expunge precisely that which is noblest and divinest in Holy Scripture. I have no desire to ignore “the terrors of the Lord”...
I protest against teaching that “all” means in scriptural phrase absolutely “all” when some evil is foretold, but that “all” means only “some” when spoken of final salvation. So rooted is this most inequitable mode of interpretation, that...
It is a striking fact that the weight of opposition to universalism in primitive times is found in the Latin church, is found most vigorous where, as in Augustine’s case, the Greek language was never really mastered.
Thus, to deny the absolute universality of Christ’s redeeming sway, as destined to embrace all souls and all things whatsoever, seems no less than to withdraw from the New Testament an essential and vital part of its teaching. For here we...
Isa 4:5; Matt 3:3; Lev 16:27; 2 Pet 3:10; Ezek 1:4; Ezek 8:2; Rev 1:14; Rev 4:5
Again, how shallow is the common view of “fire” as only or chiefly a penal agent. “Fire, in Scripture, is the element of ‘life’ (Isa 4:5), of ‘purification’ (Matt 3:3), of ‘atonement’ (Lev 16:27), of ‘transformation’ (2 Pet 3:10), and...
