Regarding arguments against the Bible teaching universal salvation, see
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/BibleThreateningsExplained.html
Any hell that anyone will experience the Bible calls "kolasis eonian," which means age-during corrective chastisement.
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/asw/Chapter11.html
It is limited in duration, and corrective in purpose.
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Aion_lim.html

My testimony contains information that, according to the more than 100 entries in my guest book, and the many positive emails in my email file folders, is helping many people. My guest book can be accessed towards the bottom of my front page at http://greater-emmanuel.org/Hope4You/
Also see the testimonies at http://www.tentmaker.org/visitorcomments.htm

So much suffering is caused by the horrific false doctrine of endless suffering in hell, that it gives me great pleasure to guide people to the evidence that a correctly (literally, not interpretively) translated Bible teaches universal salvation, not endless suffering in hell, or even annihilation.

We agree with fundamentalist Christians that we should not believe things that go against Biblical teaching. We don’t.

I'm 68, and I am acquainted with many people who are, or were in various stages of nervous breakdown over their inability to love a god who would let anyone suffer forever. Even though they have embraced Christ and His gospel, they are afraid of what God might do to them after they are raised from the dead for not being able to love Him. The information in my testimony has helped many of these people.

If any member or surfer on this forum is suffering because they are unable to successfully emotionally cope with the idea that God is going to let any creature suffer forever, they can Google up the more than 600 page search engine at the top of the TENTMAKER front page. Just type in a key word or phrase from each argument or scripture passages and ten articles will appear that refute the eternal hell and annihilationist doctrines.
Then click to the next page and ten more articles will appear, and so on and so on for
thousands of pages.

Most fundamentalist Christians are not even aware that there are two sides to the argument about what the Bible teaches.
I have exhaustively studied both sides myself. This debate always ends with the words, "My Greek scholars are more reliable than your Greek scholars," and the result is a stalemate.

If your readers think it glorifies God more to believe that He is going to let some of His creatures suffer forever, then they should keep believing that.
But if they think it glorifies God more to eventually meet everyone on the level of their greatest and deepest need, which is a change in their stubborn will, then I would like them to know that that is exactly what the Bible teaches that God is like.

I am a Concordant Christian. I have read and recorded gleanings into my more than four thousand page personal journal from most of the back issues of UNSEARCHABLE RICHES that has been published back to 1909. Every argument that I have ever heard against the Bible teaching universal salvation have been repeatedly dealt with in these magazines.

Largely, but not exclusively, because of the contents in these magazines, I am convinced that the evidence in support of the Bible teaching universal salvation is irrefutable. That is why the argument that we should teach endless suffering in hell just in case it might be true is unacceptable to me. IMHO the greatest of all manifestations of God's grace in action on this earth is that anyone can believe in "eternal suffering" for anyone and not have a nervous breakdown thinking about it.

Here are several Concordant websites.
http://www.concordant.org/
http://www.saviour-of-all.org/
http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/
http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/Library/index1.html
www.gracetruth.com
http://www.tentmaker.org/

From Rodger Tutt in Toronto, Canada
“That God may be All in all” 1Cor.15:28

Satan says, "Don't worry about receiving Jesus now. You can do that later." Then when people die, they find out it is too late.

Universalism says the same thing.

Mr Rodger Tutt, the universalist is more concerned with converting someone to "truth of universalism." In so doing, he endanger the souls of all who he contacts.

Let me illustrate this with a Rodger Tutt the Universalist witnessing to a Mormon.

Mr Rodger Tutt the Universalist: "Listen here Mormon, if you continue to believe that you can become a god, that Satan and Jesus are literal brothers, that God has a body of flesh and bones and has a goddess wife, and that you can become a god of your own world, you know what is going to happen to you? You're going to heaven! So there!"

Mormon: "Sounds good to me."

So, where is the power of universalism to correct Satan's lies? Does it carry a warning for those who serve false gods except to say that it isn't nice to believe such things as Mormon doctrines? But, so what? It doesn't matter.
Mormonism, and other cults, would lead to heaven.

Is there orthodoxy in Universalism? Does it have the power and right to refute the errors of the cults? I don't see how. But, I do see that it is dangerous.



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Hello Rodger:

What is your belief concerning Satan? Do you believe in that there is a being of Satan, and what would your view be of this being? How does this fit into your belief?

Can you specify appropriate scripture from the Bible that would validate or support your argument of your belief? Scripture only-not of alternative sources.

What would occur, in your belief, as far as those individuals that follow evil-or are evil? What would apply as far as these individuals concerning Heaven or the 'Lake of Fire'?

In scripture the 'Lake of Fire' is originally created, or will be created, specifically for the Devil and his minion (or so-called angels.) Those that follow evil will be swept in with him-and those who actively reject Christ. It is indicated in the story of the goats and the sheep. The 'Lake of Fire' is created with good, and just, reason. Do you believe that the Lord is just?

Do you believe that people are accountable for what they choose to believe, and what they choose to do or fail to do? Do you believe in accountability?

Many Blessings,
Assuredly in faith,
Parson Marguerite Earhart

"From Rodger Tutt in Toronto, Canada
“That God may be All in all” 1Cor.15:28"

1 Corinthians 15:28

28: 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.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-34
"The Assurance Of The Believer"

20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

23. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

24. 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.

25. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

30. And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

31. I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

32. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

33. Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.

34. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I speake this to your shame.

The Criswell Study Bible-Authorized King James Version

http://christiananswers.net/bible/1cor15.html

Audio Bible Online
http://www.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html

One man struck a match to see if the gasoline tank in
his car was empty. It wasn't.

One man patted a strange dog on the head to see if it
was affectionate. It wasn't.

One man sped up to see if he could beat the train to
the crossing. He didn't.

One man touched an electric wire to see if it was
dead. It wasn't.

One man thought he could get to heaven without Christ.
He couldn't.

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