Here's the problem with hopeful universalism: it means God created a universe where He can be defeated. He creates a universe where His will is not the most powerful force--His infinite will can be undone by our finite human will. Why would a good and loving God create a universe where eternal damnation was a possibiity? Why would God create children who could damn themselves against His will? Would anyone choose to be unhappy forever? I believe that God is infinitely attractive and that any created being who sees God in His fullness will be unable to resist God's love.
Hopeful universalists don’t say or imply that God can be defeated. They deny, not God’s power, but the possibility of resolving the universalism question via dialectic, tracing the logic of concepts. The answer won’t arrive as the conclusion to a syllogism. This is often taken as a weak caveat, but it’s quite strong when you remember how syllogism and apologetics dominate theology. A hopeful universalist says No to rationalism. Whether the arguments reject or affirm universalism, most gloss over or footnote Christ. Those that affirm, moreover, often seem not to grasp the bitterness of the medicine most of us will need to find health. In these affirmations I hear relief and a grappling with personal scars, which is appropriate, but empathy and concern for the neighbor are less obvious.
@@williamoarlock8634 ask God to help you to change course. Listening is the hardest part. Have you trained your senses to pick up on what is good? Can take some practice. Be stubborn about it. Don't let your soul go to waste. You have the right idea, voicing yourself brings it to light which then you ask but first ask God, then ask yourself and then others and keep asking till peace rules. Joy follows in due time.
Really appreciate brother Andrew! Such a compassionate parsing of data/wisdom, with a heart ❤️
Fear is a shallow motivator. Logic and reason hold many but, it is love that is unrelenting , even eternal. Ask any parent of a teenage son.
Well spoken synapses! Love bears 🐻 all things!
Here's the problem with hopeful universalism: it means God created a universe where He can be defeated. He creates a universe where His will is not the most powerful force--His infinite will can be undone by our finite human will. Why would a good and loving God create a universe where eternal damnation was a possibiity? Why would God create children who could damn themselves against His will? Would anyone choose to be unhappy forever? I believe that God is infinitely attractive and that any created being who sees God in His fullness will be unable to resist God's love.
Thank you!
In the end God always wins, some sooner others later . Let's encourage one another while we can.
Hopeful universalists don’t say or imply that God can be defeated. They deny, not God’s power, but the possibility of resolving the universalism question via dialectic, tracing the logic of concepts. The answer won’t arrive as the conclusion to a syllogism. This is often taken as a weak caveat, but it’s quite strong when you remember how syllogism and apologetics dominate theology. A hopeful universalist says No to rationalism. Whether the arguments reject or affirm universalism, most gloss over or footnote Christ. Those that affirm, moreover, often seem not to grasp the bitterness of the medicine most of us will need to find health. In these affirmations I hear relief and a grappling with personal scars, which is appropriate, but empathy and concern for the neighbor are less obvious.
New to channel...gotta ask, is the channel primarily Catholic theology?
not really
Amen
Why preach doubt of universalism from a man who did not believe the ckear Word?
I'm predestined for despair.
Apparently
Do something different.
@@grmalinda6251How I can do what's different to what I'm predestined for?
@@williamoarlock8634 ask God to help you to change course. Listening is the hardest part. Have you trained your senses to pick up on what is good? Can take some practice. Be stubborn about it. Don't let your soul go to waste. You have the right idea, voicing yourself brings it to light which then you ask but first ask God, then ask yourself and then others and keep asking till peace rules. Joy follows in due time.
@@grmalinda6251 Sounds like self-indoctrination and self-delusion.