Welcome to the Biblical Universalism series. This is a series of articles that my free Biblical Universalism eBook was originally based on, and while I’d recommend reading the eBook rather than the articles (since it’s more up to date than the articles are), they are still available for those who prefer to read articles on a website to an eBook in the PDF or ePUB formats that it’s available in.
Before you do read them, though, I should quickly discuss the Bible version I primarily used throughout these articles. You see, A) there are a number of people out there who won’t consider scriptural references from anything other than this one particular Bible version, and I wanted to reach the largest audience possible, B) because it’s still one of the most popular and recognizable Bible versions anyway, not to mention C) because it was just fun to demonstrate the fact that Universalism is clearly taught in the translation of Scripture which uses the word “hell” more often than any other English Bible version (based on what I could determine when comparing translations, anyway), and which is used the most often to defend the doctrine of never-ending punishment as well (at least in my own experience), unless specifically stated otherwise, all scriptural references in this series — both in the body of the articles and in the supporting links I use for my scriptural references — are from the KJV (the King James Version of the Bible). All that being said, if you aren’t a fan of the way the KJV renders certain verses, please feel free to look up the supporting references in a translation of your choosing instead. For any KJV-Onlyists reading this, though, I should probably also point out that some of the writers of the supporting books and articles I linked to throughout this series do use other Bible versions themselves, and they don’t necessarily all feel as favourably towards the KJV as I do, but I still highly recommend reading their articles and books in order to learn more details that I didn’t have the time to get into here myself. Speaking of those supporting references, please keep in mind that just because I link to specific articles or books doesn’t mean that I agree with everything their writers and/or publishers believe and/or teach. In some cases, I link to them for the sole reason that they happen to have better supporting material on a specific point than anybody else I’ve found so far.
Biblical Universalism Articles
- Part 1: Salvations (start here if you aren’t already familiar with the various different types of salvation referred to in the Bible, or are unfamiliar with “Concordant” soteriology in general)
- Part 2: What the Hinnom? (find out what the “hell” that Jesus warned about the most actually is)
- Part 3: How long does “for ever” last in the Bible? (a look at what the terms “for ever,” ”everlasting,” “eternal,” and “never” mean in the less literal Bible versions such as the KJV)
- Part 4: What is death? (find out what the “hell” that the dead end up in actually is, as well as what death and immortality really are)
- Part 5: He was buried (why belief in the immortality of the soul keeps one from joining the body of Christ)
- Part 6: The only true God (the truth about the deity of Christ)
- Part 7: Heaven isn’t what you think it is (why the dead can’t go to heaven, at least not in a conscious state)
- Part 8: Unmerited suffering and God (discover the origin of evil)
- Part 9: God is still on Plan A (find out who the author of sin is)
- Part 10: The impossibility of “free will” (why “free will” is completely impossible)
- Part 11: How can you be “born again” if you weren’t even born a first time? (what it actually means to be “born again”)
- Part 12: In Christ shall all be made alive (deeper insights into the different salvations connected with Paul’s Gospel)
- Part 13: Objections answered (answering common objections to the doctrine of the salvation of all)
- Part 14: Biblical threats explained (learn what the threatening-sounding passages of Scripture are really talking about)
- Part 15: How should we then really live? (in light of what was covered in the previous articles in the series, learn how one should really live)