Universal Salvation? Quotes

“Evelyn Uyemura, an English professor and poet, sometimes likes to say: `We do not read the Bible the way it is; we read it the way we are.”
― Robin Allinson Parry, Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate

“By literally shutting sinners up to their disobedience and requiring them to endure the consequences of their own rebellion, God reveals the self-defeating nature of evil and shatters the illusions that make evil choices possible in the first place.”
― Robin Allinson Parry, Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate

“What our free choices determine, then, is not our eternal destiny, which is secure from the beginning, but the means required to achieve it. For the more tenaciously we cling to our illusions and selfish desires -to the flesh, as Paul called it -the more severe will be the means and the more painful the process whereby God shatters our illusions, destroys the flesh, and finally separates us from our sin.”
― Robin Allinson Parry, Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate