Kindle Notes & Highlights
the purpose of pu...
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remedial. Its aim is ‘to get the good separated from the evil and to attract it into the ...
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things in the New Testament which more than justify this belief.
all men to myself’
that he may have mercy on all’
so also in Christ shall all be made alive’
God will be everything t...
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desires all men to...
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The New Testament itself is not in the least afraid of the word all.
kolasis,
the pruning of trees to make them grow better.
aionios.
it is impossible to set limits to the grace of God.
not only in this world, but in any other world there may be,
I believe that the grace of God is as wide as the universe.
If one man remains outside the love of God at the end of time, it means that that one man has defeated the love of God—and that is impossible.
God is not only King and Judge, God is Father—he is indeed Father more than anything else.
No father would count it a triumph to obliterate the disobedient members of his family. The only triumph a father can know is to have all his family back home. The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by and in love with God.
iron out of Christianity because it removes the threat.
it is claimed that universalism does away with free-will.
constrain
not to compel
attracting, drawing and ...
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of his own will
It is the history of a human will so wrought upon by divine grace as to overcome its perversity, and to turn it from its bias to evil in the direction of good.
“Of my own will, and left to myself, I should never have turned to God; I am what I am by the grace of God.” .
in each and all it is grace operating on the human will with convincing and persuasive efficacy, disposing, constraining, and enabling it to turn to God.
Calvinists, lies in the assumption that the operation of saving grace is restricted to the present life of man, and that consequently all souls not saved before death are eternally damned; an assumption as dishonouring to divine justice and mercy as it is revolting and repulsive to the reason and moral sense of man.
“Be ye merciful, be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is merciful and perfect.”
outcome of such a long and hidden process, that it really seems necessary to give some explanation of how such a revolution came about.
What happens after death to those who never in their lifetime have had the opportunity to hear the Gospel and who die knowing nothing at all about the Saviour?
“Lord, help me to understand. Have You really ceased to love this ignorant Moslem woman, my sister human being, and yet so terribly less privileged than myself?
Shepherd Who goeth after the sheep until He find it?” (Luke 15:4)
trust her to ME
For what we had been unable to tell her while she lay unconscious in the car, and what she had never lived to hear at the hospital, I was sure that she now heard in some way from the lips of the One Who was Himself her Creator, her Lover and her Redeemer.
“He that believeth, and is baptised, shall be saved; but he that believeth not, shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16.)
How could the Bible possibly speak of the perfect victory of God our Creator Who loves righteousness and cannot bear evil, if that victory really means that He cannot bring His own creatures at last to hate evil as He hates it, but must confirm multitudes, indeed the majority of them, in their choice of evil for ever and ever?
Surely the only thing which perfect Love and perfect Righteousness can consider worthy of the name of victory is to be able to win all to hate and forsake evil, for ever beyond the reach of any temptation to return to it again?
must be mistaken interpretations, because they are totally at variance to the revelation of a Holy God Who loves righteousness and hates evil, and Who only permits its existence temporarily that all creatures may learn to hate it and turn from it for ever.
Father heart of God . . .
Do the inspired Scriptures really teach what I had for so long supposed I must believe? Or had I been believing “traditions of men” which were not a true interpretation of the Scriptures themselves? .
to believe about God the things which alone seemed worthy of Him and in harmony with the lovely revelation of Him given by Jesus Christ . . .
none perhaps is more persistent in refusing to make an overt declaration of such a position than nineteenth century Scottish preacher, poet, and novelist George MacDonald (1824-1905), whose works during the last forty years have enjoyed a remarkable renaissance, most particularly in the United States and Germany.
George MacDonald, Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller.
to make universal reconciliation an issue upon which much energy is spent would be divisive and thus detrimental to both unbelievers and immature believers.
one small aspect of an entire outlook that had God himself at its core rather than any specific “doctrine.”
the nature of the purifying fires
justice of God,
Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love’s kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. If this be hard to understand, it is as the simple, absolute truth is hard to understand . .
It is not that the fire will burn us if we do not worship thus; but that the fire will burn us until we worship thus; yea, will go on burning within us after all that is foreign to it has yielded to its force, no longer with pain and consuming, but as the highest consciousness of life, the presence of God.
