Preaching and teaching Universal Salvation through Jesus Christ puts me in a position of getting a LOT of comments, questions, threats, etc. One of the main comments I get from traditional Christian Hell-believers is that they are much safer with believing in Hell than believing like myself, that Jesus is the Savior of the whole world. They reason this way: If I, Gary Amirault, am right about everyone going to heaven eventually because Jesus can and will save all mankind, then whether they believe in universal salvation or Hell doesn’t matter because they are guaranteed to go to heaven. But if there is a Hell, then all those who believed me and myself are going to Hell because I didn’t believe in it. In their reasoning, they can’t go wrong believing in Hell, but I can go wrong believing that Jesus accomplished what He was sent to do, save the whole world from sin.
What is so ironic is that I spend far more time preaching and teaching Jesus saves sinners than those who claim they believe in Hell. For example, I live in a small Mid-west town (Hermann, Missouri) full of Protestant and Catholic Christians. The town is loaded with Christmas merchandise and decorations since it’s December. We’ve gotten loads of Christmas cookies. But not a single Christian during the entire month of December ever came to me warning me I’m on my way to Hell if I don’t repent, ask Jesus into my heart and go to a good Bible-believing church or join the Catholic church which offers the sacraments needed to go to heaven. Not one, not a single Baptist, not a single Methodist, not a single Catholic, not a single Charismatic, etc. So then, where is the “faith” of those who claim to believe most of mankind is going to burn in Hell? Where is the love? How are they denying themselves in order to snatch a few from the burning flames? If salvation is deliverance from burning in Hell forever, this month is the perfect time to broadcast the warning. But they aren’t. They are giving cookies. And the world can see through the sham.There are more suicides and people attending care groups for depression around Christmas than any other time of the year.
Dear traditional Christian, isn’t it time to get honest with yourself, your neighbors and God and come clean? Either go out there and burn yourself up warning people of the eternal wrath to come unless they repent and get born again and stay clean or stop the hypocrisy. Put your money into tracts; do some hard core street Evangelism instead of pouring billions upon billions of dollars into trinkets, lights, booze, Santa outfits, etc. Come clean. But you won’t. Do you know why? Because deep in your heart you know Hell is a lie. But you don’t have to guts to break the tradition. May God give you the guts in the coming year to break this wretched, awful hypocritical tradition. The world will be the better for it.
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Hell isn’t a lie — see what you deal with in the Tabloids; I do believe in an everlasting hell but not the way the King James Version Onlyists see it though I do imagine fire and darkness but also see one where it is in the court of public opinion. One of their own making as this isn’t a gospel thing I’ve seen it in my line of work as a writer and publisher. I am a horror author and dark subject matter I handle with the utmost respect because I explore subject matter Christians don’t like to address such as raw truth Amos 5: 10 says it’s never popular to talk about. I also acknowledge Evolution as a science so how do you challenge that one. I am not a Universalist but see the Bible quite differently where you need to teach Genesis as allegory with Noah and The Garden of Eden.
I am perusing your site to learn more about the concept of universal salvation. While I’m doing that may I ask you to explain who will cast into the eternal lake of fire at the end of time besides the fallen angels. How does universal salvation explain the concept of the great chasm between Lazarus (in Abraham’s bosom) and the rich man?
Many blessings and God keep you.
Jim
Visit http://tentmakerwordpress.hopeforallfellowship.com/hell
There you will find several treatments of the Richman and Lazarus parable from a universalism perspective.