{"id":632,"date":"2008-10-04T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/04\/why-christian-universalism\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T01:02:20","slug":"why-christian-universalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Why Christian Universalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conclusion, let me ask you to hold in your mind traditional Christian visions of the future, in which many, perhaps the majority of humanity, are excluded from salvation forever.\u00c2\u00a0 Alongside that hold the universalist vision, in which God achieves his loving purpose of redeeming the whole creation.\u00c2\u00a0 Which vision has the strongest view of divine love?\u00c2\u00a0 Which story has the most powerful narrative of God&#8217;s victory over evil?\u00c2\u00a0 Which picture lifts the atoning efficacy of the cross of Christ to the greatest heights?\u00c2\u00a0 Which perspective best emphasizes the triumph of grace over sin?\u00c2\u00a0 Which view most inspires worship and love of God bringing him honor and glory?\u00c2\u00a0 Which has the most satisfactory understanding of the divine wrath?\u00c2\u00a0 Which narrative inspires hope in the human spirit?\u00c2\u00a0 To my mind the answer to all these questions is clear, and that is why I am a Christian universalist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory MacDonald, <em>The Evangelical Universalist, <\/em>p. 176-177<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conclusion, let me ask you to hold in your mind traditional Christian visions of the future, in which many, perhaps the majority of humanity, are excluded from salvation forever.\u00c2\u00a0 Alongside that hold the universalist vision, in which God achieves his loving purpose of redeeming the whole creation.\u00c2\u00a0 Which vision has the strongest view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}