Friday, August 19, 2011

A Very Short Universalist Thought

Since this is something of a scandalous topic among evangelicals, I'd like to make several disclaimers, which might turn out to be longer than the actual content of the post:

  1. Universalism, in this post, means the idea that eventually, in some way, every person will be reconciled to God, and doesn't necessarily imply anything about the timing or manner of that reconciliation;
  2. I do not at this point call myself a universalist;
  3. I do not intend the following to be a watertight argument, or a proof-text, or anything nearly so convincing, only a thought.
So, with that out of the way, here's the very short thought. Actually it's not even a thought, just a couple of well-known Bible verses that I'd never considered in relation to each other, but did so today and found the exercise interesting. Here they are (you might be familiar with them):

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
   and gave him the name that is above every name,
 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
   in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
   to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11
That's it.

2 Comments:

Kara said...

I would like to note the two conditions/joint conditions to being saved in Romans 10, without crushing any cruelly universalist thoughts.

Kara said...

Dammit... I can't edit the above. The end of it was supposed to read 'without cruelly crushing any potential universalist thoughts'.
xox

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