• JamesConeZone [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    1 Peter 3:18 and following are clear that post-death, Jesus preaches to souls who did not accept him during their earthly life. Whether this is a metaphor, I have no idea (Peter talks about Noah’s ark here, just a really weird passage), but it seems like there is mercy offered for all

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      There’s lots of textual evidence that can be taken in support of infernalism, annilationism, and universalism. Much of the latter in Paul’s letters

      ultimately which you accept is dependent on the way you interpret the text. And the Calvinist infernalist interpretation is to my mind heretical and sinful as they aren’t loving their neighbour. I find that universalism best fits the fact of God being both all powerful and all loving.

      If you accept that there is none of His children God does not love, that God would never give up on one He loves (God is faithful after all), and that the saved are saved by grace and not through works (Paul again often used to support Calvinism) therefore God through persistence will eventually reach everyone He wants to the universalist position is consistent

      Ironically the universalist argument is similar to the Calvinist one but a universalist interprets the elect as everyone

      Also a lot of our modern biblical ideas come from James the 1st writing his own Bible (Constantine too but James the 1st did to protestantism what Constantine did to Catholicism) James the 1st was also a madman believing in goblins and having people tortured also he popularised the sport of golf outside of Scotland