This is an introduction to the topic of Universal Reconciliation (also known as Universal Salvation, the doctrine of Apocatastasis (or Apokatastasis), and Christian Universalism, among other names), the Christian doctrine that all people will eventually be (or already have been) reconciled or saved by Christ.
I have included many different articles on Universal Reconciliation by many different Christian Universalists here. Keep in mind as you read that, while there are Universalist denominations out there, Christian Universalism is technically not a denomination at all but is rather a soteriological model just like Calvinism and Arminianism are. Keep in mind as well that not all Christian Universalists agree one hundred percent with each other on every aspect of theology any more than every Calvinist or Arminian does.
I’m providing these resources to demonstrate that Scripture seems to teach Universal Reconciliation over the alternative views of soteriology, and also to show that tradition and basic common sense back it up as well.
Articles on Universal Reconciliation and Related Topics:
- What is Christian Universalism?
- Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years
- Damned Nonsense: An Argument for Universalism consisting of a critique of all of the alternatives to it (PDF document)
- Hope Beyond Hell: The Righteous Purpose of God’s Judgment (PDF document)
- The Outcome of Infinite Grace: Death Swallowed Up in Victory
- The Second Death and the Restitution Of All Things
- The Ultimate Redemptive Purposes of God: Scriptures Concerning the Reconciliation of All Things
- Abraham’s Bosom (Lazarus and the Rich Man)
- Conforming To YOUR Image Of God
- The “God” of christianity vs. the God Of the Bible
- Is Salvation A Deliverance From Hell or Eternal Death?
- Eternal Punishment – Is It Really of God?
- The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment
- Eternal Torment vs. Reconciliation
- Bible Threatenings Explained
- The Truth About Reconciliation
- How Christians Can Become Atheists
- Absolute Assurance in Jesus Christ
- Questions Without Answers – A “Refutation” – A Response
- Why Live A Good Life If All Will Be Saved?
- Do You Believe ALL In the Bible?
- Hope For All Generations and Nations
- The Early Christian View of the Saviour
- Shall the God of the Whole Earth Do Righteously?
- Is Our Father Master Builder or Great Destroyer?
- Especially Those That Believe
- Is Jesus the World’s Greatest Sinner?
- An Analytical Study of Words
- Does “foreverS AND everS” Make Sense to You?
- Does Jesus REALLY Love Little Children?
- Bible Translations That Do Not Teach Eternal Torment
- Be A Messenger of Great News!
- The Hypocrisy of False Expressions Among Christians
- If Hell is Real (Popular Myths Refuted)
- Answers to 21 Anti-universalist Objections
- Hell is Leaving the Bible “forever.”
- Charts for Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus
- History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Retribution
- Links to Other Web Sites on Universal Reconciliation and Related Topics