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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the proclamation of redemption not the act of
redemption. It is not a command for righteousness; it is a declaration of
righteousness. [THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 59]

THESE ARE QUOTES FROM BOOKS ON UNIVERSAL SALVATION. THERE ARE MANY
BUT THESE ARE MY FAVORITE ONES FOR THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION STARTERS
REGARDING THE SALVATION OF ALL. HOPE YOU ENJOY... Mike

According to the
way many
Evangelical
Christians think;
Christians are
being saved from
God by God.
[THE GOSPEL OF
INCLUSION.
CARLTON
PEARSON. Pg 103]

Instead of encouraging people to become disciples of Christ, we
have fallen to recruiting people to become disciples of Christianity,
and there is a difference.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 106]

I can't love because I am ordered---least of all can't I love One who
seems only to make me miserable here to torture me hereafter.
Show me that He is good, that He is lovable, and I shall love Him
without being told. Florence Nightingale
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 73]

Belief does not bring
salvation. However, belief
does recognize salvation,
enhance its reality in a
persons life and lead to
conversion and personal
reform. [THE GOSPEL OF
INCLUSION. CARLTON
PEARSON. Pg 103]

Redemption is not a
process. Redemption is
instantaneous and
immediate, the result of
the finished work of the
Cross. It requires neither
action nor belief. [THE
GOSPEL OF INCLUSION.
CARLTON PEARSON. Pg
104]

Just because the world seems unaware of God's love for it doesn't
mean the love isn't there.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 111]

Evangelism is not getting poeple saved; it is informing people of
God's redemptive love towards them. Faith doesn't save you; faith
just recognizes that you are saved.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 126]

Hell is the experience of the worst possible outcome of our choices,
decisions, and creations; the natural consequences of any thought which
denies God or says no to who you are in relationship to Him and your purpose
in Him. It is the pain we suffer through inaccurate thinking. Hell is the opposite
of joy; it is the unfulfillment. It is perhaps, to know who you are and fail to
experience that. It is being less, lack, or incomplete. [Conversations with God
by Neale D. Walsch THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 138]

Christians believe that Christ
died for all sin---except the sin
of not believing He died for all
sin. [THE GOSPEL OF
INCLUSION. CARLTON
PEARSON. Pg 141]

The word 'disown' in 2 Timothy 2:13
suggests that if you deny or disown
Christ, He will disown your denial (and
not you). Even if you are unfaithful to
Him, He will remain faithful to you.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON
PEARSON. Pg 138]

We assume that death is automatic, imposed upon humanity without
our consent, but that eternal life comes only by choice and election.
God's plan was crafted without our participation or permission, and
under His system, all are redeemed, even if the rest of us do not
believe they should be. This is amazing grace.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 154]

If you are convinced that your only alternative to faith in God is Hell,
does it make you faithful or just intimidated?
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION. CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 155]

Fear has no place in a
relationship where God's
grace has already
guaranteed our salvation.
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION.
CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 177]

Mankind is not on earth to
receive God's wrath, but to
fulfill God's worth, which is
infinite. We are the
expression of God in this
world, so does it not follow
that we are the mechanism
by which He shapes it?
[THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION.
CARLTON PEARSON. Pg 180]

We were taught that faith
was the only answer or
cure to the problem of sin,
not the act of atonement
itself. [THE GOSPEL OF
INCLUSION. CARLTON
PEARSON. Pg 203]

According to Paul, therefore, God is always
and everywhere merciful, but we sometimes
experience His mercy (or purifying love) as
severity, judgment, (or) punishment. When we
live a life of obedience, we experience His
mercy as kindness; when we live a life of
disobedience, we experience it as severity.
[THE INESCAPABLE LOVE OF GOD. THOMAS
TALBOTT. Pg 72]

God hardens a heart in order to produce, in the
end, a contrite spirit, blinds those who are
unready for the truth in order to bring them
ultimately to the truth, imprisons all in
disobedience so that He may be merciful to
all. And the hardening of Pharaoh's heart was
an expression of mercy in two respects: First, it
revealed to Pharaoh the destructive nature of
his own sin, and second, it revealed to the
Egyptians something of the nature of God.
[THE INESCAPABLE LOVE OF GOD. THOMAS
TALBOTT. Pg 73, 75]

Some have claimed that
God has won the victory so
long as He has achieved
His purpose of giving all
poeple the OPPORTUNITY to
accept salvation freely
and saving those who do
accept it. Thus God's
victory is compatible with
the damnation of some.
[THE EVANGELICAL
UNIVERSALIST. GREGORY
MACDONALD. Pg 25]

The 'all things' that are reconciled in v. 20 are,
without any doubt, the same 'all things' that are
created in v. 16. In other words, every single
created thing. It is not ' all without distinction'
(some of every kind of thing) but all 'without
exception' 9every single thing).
[THE EVANGELICAL UNIVERSALIST. GREGORY
MACDONALD. Pg 45]

The reconciliation of creation is thus already
achieved in Christ and yet is only experienced
as a reality by those in Christ by faith. They are
the first to taste the reconciliation that has been
won for all. The church, then, is a present sign
of the reconciliation that the whole cration will
one day experience.
[THE EVANGELICAL UNIVERSALIST. GREGORY
MACDONALD. Pg 51]

To get some understanding of the love of God one must begin with some prior
notion of human love or one could not even get into the hermeneutical
circle. If we are to speak in any meaningful way of God's love, it must bear,
at the very least, an analogical relationship to human love. But then a
Christian's understanding of God's love will be nuanced by its revelation in
salvation history. We stretch our concept of God's love across the poles of
creation, convenant, and redemption. We drape it over the shape of the cross
to follow its contours and wrap it around the stone rolled away from the tomb.
Only then can we begin to see the shape of God's heart. If you want to
understand love, then don't think about our love for God...but ponder His love
for us in sending His Son to die to take away our sin. [THE EVANGELICAL
UNIVERSALIST. GREGORY MACDONALD. Pg 101, 102]

God does not torture
anybody--He simply withdraws His
protection that allows people to
live under the illusions that sin is
not necessarily harmful to a truly
human life. The natural
consequences of sin take their
course, and it becomes harder
and harder to fool oneself into
believing the seductive lies of sin
anymore. In this way hell is
educative and points us towards
oour need for divine mercy.
[THE EVANGELICAL UNIVERSALIST.
GREGORY MACDONALD. Pg 101,
102]

The universalist will see the church
in much the same way as the
non-universalist. SHe is Christ's
bride, His body, the community of
the redeemed...the children of
God. However, to the universalist
the church is also a microcosm of
the age to come. In the church
one finds people from every tribe
and tongue joined in one body.
Our calling is to act as a prophetic
sign to the nations representing
the destiny of all humanity. [THE
EVANGELICAL UNIVERSALIST.
GREGORY MACDONALD. Pg 167]

The Bible was never intended to
end the conversation, but to
encourage it. God didn't fall silent
with the last chapter of Revelation.
He continues to reveal Himself. It
makes no sense to glorify the
accounts of our ancestors'
encounters with God while
dismissing our experiences with
Him today. [IF GRACE IS TRUE.
GULLEY & MULHOLLAND. Pg 38]

It eventually occurred to me that
my ultimate allegiance belonged
not to the Bible, but to the One of
whom it testified. We are not to
worship the Bible; we are to
worship the One the Bible reveals.
Jesus invited us to look up from
the page and into God's face. [IF
GRACE IS TRUE. GULLEY &
MULHOLLAND. Pg 42]

I knew from personal experience how easily we attribute all our experiences
to God's hand. This habit leaves us with an understanding of God that is not
only inaccurate but also potentially harmful. Just because something bad
happened to us does not mean God caused it to happen. Just because
someone treated us ungraciously doesn't mean their actions and attitudes
represent God. Unless we understand God's character and will, we easily
assume every action, even the most horrible, must be credited to God. I had
to sort through the vast variety of images of God until I found one that
matched my experience. It finally occurred to me to trust someone I believe
knew God's heart--Jesus.
[IF GRACE IS TRUE. GULLEY & MULHOLLAND. Pg 44, 60]

Holiness is god's ability to confront evil without being
defiled. God's holiness does not require Him to keep evil
at arm's length. God's holiness enables Him to take the
wicked in His arms and transform him. God is never in
danger of being defiled. No evil can alter His love, for His
gracious character is beyond corruption.
[IF GRACE IS TRUE. GULLEY & MULHOLLAND. Pg 74]

Human
brokenness is not
the result of
God's wrath, but
the reason for
God's grace. [IF
GRACE IS TRUE.
GULLEY &
MULHOLLAND. Pg
100]

God's will prevails over everything, and His ability and pwer back up and
perform His will. [READ AND SEARCH GOD'S PLAN. HAROLD LOVELACE. Pg 15]

If man's will can prevail over God's will, then God cannot be sovereign.
[READ AND SEARCH GOD'S PLAN. HAROLD LOVELACE. Pg 17]

Man may rebel, but he will be corrected. Remember God loves the world, and
'whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.'
[READ AND SEARCH GOD'S PLAN. HAROLD LOVELACE. Pg 18]

You live according to
the kind of God that
you believe in.
[READ AND SEARCH
GOD'S PLAN. HAROLD
LOVELACE. Pg 35]

Truth to the humble seeker is not a destination he
reaches or an intellectual pinnacle he achieves
early in his Christian walk, but a glorious, lifelong
journey and quest toward the very heart of God.
[WHAT EVER BECAME OF MELANIE? ALLAN E.
CHEVRIER. Pg 44]

Everything and everyone belong to Him. This also
includes us. And the fact of the matter is that He is
now in the process of claiming is inheritance, not
mutilating and destroying it. [WHAT EVER BECAME
OF MELANIE? ALLAN E. CHEVRIER. Pg 67]

Pure religion is not about earning heaven or escaping hell. It is about
discerning our proper place and role in creation--that God did not create us to
be cowering supplicants or greedy schemers, striving to escape this world.
Instead, we see ourselves as God sees us--as the crown of creation...capable
of loving as He has loved, and destined to dwell with God forever. When God
looks on us, God smiles. Pure religion is learning to smile back. We no longer
focus on escaping this world but in transforming it.
[IF GOD IS LOVE. GULLEY & MULHOLLAND. Pg 36, 38]

A gracious church is a safe place to ask questions,
explore new ideas, admit our struggles, and seek
assistance. A gracious church is a place where people
can come with questions, doubts and struggles without
fear of being condemned.
[IF GOD IS LOVE. GULLEY & MULHOLLAND. Pg 174, 175]

*    The Atonement was not to satisfy God's justice, but to reveal His love.
*    The justice of God is not against the sinner, demanding his condemnation,
  but for him, ensuring his salvation.
*    God is not in contrast with, much less in opposition to Christ in the
Atonement, but in perfect harmony and accord.
*    The Atonement is not the exclusive work of Christ in order to reconcile
God to the world, but it is the work of God IN Christ to reconcile the world
unto Himself.
*   Christ does not have to plead with God in order to make Him willing to
pardon the sinner, but God by His ministers, 'beseeches' the sinner to
make them willing to be pardoned.
*   Hence the Atonement is not to propitiate God, but man; not to make God
favorably disposed to man, but to make His already existing favor known
to man.
*   Christ did not die as our substitute, but as our companion and associate;
not instead of man, but with him and for him.
*   Christ did not die to save us from the penalty of sin, but from sin itself.
*   Christ did not die that we might not die, but to deliver us out of death in
which we were already involved.
*    The sinner is not redeemed because he repents, but he is called upon to
repent because he has been redeemed.
*   The Atonement is not the cause of God's love to man, giving rise to that love,
     but the effect, flowing out of that love.
*   The final outcome of the atoning scheme is not a partial success, but a
perfect, absolute, and universal triumph!
[THE ATOMEMENT. A P ADAMS]