{"id":7205,"date":"2018-10-06T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2018-10-06T22:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:17:29","slug":"all-means-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7205","title":{"rendered":"All Means All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Allin-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Allin-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Allin-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Allin-5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Allin-5-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing only I ask, which common fairness and honesty require, that our Lord and his evangelists and apostles may be understood to <em>mean what they say<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we shall look at a <em>few<\/em> instances out of <em>many<\/em>.  When they speak of all men, I assume them to mean <em>all<\/em> men, and not some men.  When they speak of all things, I assume them to mean <em>all<\/em> things.  When they speak of life and salvation as given to the world, I assume them to mean <em>given<\/em>, and not merely offered.  When they speak of the destruction of death, of the devil, and of the works of the devil, I assume them to mean that these shall be <em>destroyed<\/em> and not preserved for ever in hell.  When they tell us that the whole of creation suffers, but that it shall be delivered, I assume that they mean an <em>actual<\/em> deliverance of all created things.  When they tell us that redemption is wider, broader, and stronger than the fall, I assume that they mean to tell us at least this, that <em>all<\/em> the evil caused by the fall shall be swept away.  When they describe Christ&#8217;s empire as extending over all things and all creatures, and tell us that every tongue must join in homage to him, I assume them to mean what these words convey in their ordinary sense.  If I did not, should I not be making God a liar?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Thomas Allin, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/christ_triumphant.html\">Christ Triumphant<\/a><\/em>, p. 241-242<\/p>\n<p>Photo: From Ferry to the Isle of Mull, Scotland, July 12, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing only I ask, which common fairness and honesty require, that our Lord and his evangelists and apostles may be understood to mean what they say. Thus, we shall look at a few instances out of many. When they speak of all men, I assume them to mean all men, and not some men. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-redemption","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","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=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}