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1. God is Omniscient.
His understanding is infinite; declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Psalm 147:5; Isa. 46:10; Acts 15:18.
God well knew when he created Adam what would be the eternal destiny of every individual of his posterity, as he will know when the last generation of man shall have entered on their eternal state. If all are to be saved, he knew it; and if part are to be saved, and part eternally damned, the fate of each individual soul was known to him. These conclusions are just as certain as that God's knowledge is infinite.
2. God must have designed what he knew would be the eternal destiny of each individual of our race.
If he knew all would be saved, he must have designed the salvation of all; and if he knew part would be saved, and part damned without relief and without end, he must have designed the salvation of some and the damnation of others.
Every man designs what he knows will be the result of his voluntary acts. If I know when I speak to a certain person he will fall at my feet dead, and if I persist in speaking to him with this knowledge of the consequence, I, of course, intend he shall die; so if God knows the destiny of all men, and he does, all who go to heaven will go there by his decree, and all who go to hell will go there by his decree. This is just as certain as that two and two make four. Arminianism, then, is resolved into Calvinism. Would God have created conscious beings, knowing and intending that eternal misery would be their doom Impossible, utterly impossible.
3. God is love, is infinitely good.
There is none good but one, that is God. Mark 10:18.
On the words God is love, Dr. A. Clarke, the celebrated Methodist Commentator, writes as follows:
God is an infinite fountain of benevolence and beneficence to every human being. He hates nothing that he has made. He cannot hate, because he is love. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good; and sends his rain on the just and the unjust. He has made no human being for perdition.
It has been well observed that although God is holy, just, righteous, etc., he is never called holiness, justice, etc. in the abstract, as he is here called Love. This is the essence of the Divine nature, and all other attributes to be only modifications of this.
God never created a soul knowing it would be miserable forever.
4. God is Omnipotent.
The Lord Omnipotent reigns. Rev. 19:6.
Nothing is too mighty for him to do. He can save the world. Where is the Christian who would not redeem all mankind, had he the power? God possesses the power, and will he not do it? Is the creature better than the Creator? God forbid any should think so.
5. God is Omnipresent.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me; Yes, the darkness hides not from You; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to You. Ps. 139:1, 12
God, who is love, fills immensity, we cannot, on earth or in eternity, go where universal love smiles not around. If there is an endless hell, full of devils and damned souls, God is there, and there, too, his love is displayed! Will those who believe in endless wrath inform us wherein infinite love is manifested in that world of woe?
6. God is holy.
Holy is the Lord of hosts. Isa. 6:3.
A holy God could not build a prison, dedicate it to every vile and hateful passion, and then crowd it with beings of his own workmanship, where they must sin and suffer for ever and ever.
A monster of depravity might do so.
7. God is merciful.
But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Ps. 86:15.
It is impossible for such a being to torment without relief, and without end, millions of his own offspring.
8. God is just.
A just God and a Savior. Isa. 45:21.
It would be unjust to inflict endless punishment for the sins of a few days; God is strictly just, he will not deal thus with any of his creatures. Justice requires that the transgressor shall be punished righteously, but not unmercifully.
God is also Savior he will save as well as punish.
9. God is the Father of all mankind.
Have we not all one Father? Mal. 2:10.
One is your Father which is in Heaven. Matt. 23:9.
Is there a human parent who would eternally torment his offspring? Would not the most depraved save all of them if they could? Is our heavenly Father less kind than earthly parents are?
10. God is unchangeable.
He is in one mind, and who can turn him. Job 23:13.
He always will be what he is now: omniscient, all-knowing, omnipotent, omni-present, infinitely good, holy, merciful, just, and a universal Father.
Before God can deal with mankind as partialism teaches, all his moral attributes must be the reverse of what they now are.
God is unchangeable, that is impossible, and therefore partialism is false.
In the language of Rev. Asa Shinn, a celebrated Methodist preacher and writer, Why are we glad that God is Almighty? Because He is Almighty goodness. Why are we delighted that His understanding is infinite? Because it is the understanding of Infinite Love.
Why are we pleased when we hear that God is unchangeable? Because it brings to our view a benevolence which will NEVER VARY.
And why do we rejoice that He is Just? Because we hence learn that the energy of Love will NEVER CEASE to maintain and defend every thing that is right, and to oppose every thing that is wrong. This is the benevolence and rectitude of a Supreme Being.
140 still to come (LOL)
11. God is the Owner and Proprietor of all men.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. Ezek. 18:4.
God is too wise and good to give any to the devil, and He has too much power to have any forced out of his hands. All men now belong to God, they always will.
12. It is the will of God that all shall be saved.
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. I Tim. 2:4.
God is love, it must be his will that mankind should be saved. An infinitely good being could have no other will. He is infinite in knowledge, he could not so will unless he knew all would be saved. He could not will that should take place which he knew never would.
13. No power can defeat his will.
"Your will be done." Matt. 6:10.
He does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What do You do? Dan. 4:35.
"He works all things after the counsel of his own will." Eph. 1:11.
The will of God will be done. No power can defeat it. Our God will save all men.
14. God purposes the salvation of all men.
"Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him." Eph. 1:9,10.
What do the words, all things which are in heaven and on earth signify?
Professor Stuart = they mean the UNIVERSE in exact accordance with this definition.
Archbishop Newcome = they signify all INTELLIGENT BEINGS.
It is the purpose of God to gather together in Christ the universe : a purpose worthy of our great Creator.
15. His purpose will be accomplished.
"The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have PURPOSED so shall it stand for the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it?
"His hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back?" Isa. 14:24, 27.
"I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass: I have purposed it, I will also do it." Isa. 46:11.
16. It is the pleasure of God that all shall be redeemed.
"You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they were and are created." Rev. 4:11.
"As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." Ezek. 33:11.
17. His pleasure will be accomplished.
"My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." Isa. 46:10.
18. God will never have any other purpose, pleasure or will.
"He is without variableness or shadow of turning." James 1:17.
Who can doubt the salvation of all men?
19. God is the Savior of all men.
"We both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe." I Tim. 4:10.
God is called the Savior of all men because it is his will and purpose that all shall be saved. All necessary means are provided for its accomplishment.
20. God hates sin.
"God is love" therefore, love is holiness. God's hatred of sin is precisely his infinite abhorrence of all malice and cruelty. Infinite hatred of sin implies that its principle, and its results, are equally and forever abhorred.
The essence of sin is malice, or a disposition to produce and perpetuate misery as an ultimate end.
If God abhors this principle, it is because of this aversion to its tendency and its results, that is, because of his infinite unwillingness that misery should be produced or perpetuated for its own sake as an ultimate end of voluntary action.
To say God's holiness causes him to hate this vile spirit and yet that his holiness will influence him to perpetuate absolute misery as an ultimate end of his own action, is as direct a contradiction as human language can supply.
The native and final result of sin is misery, and nothing else. The action of holiness is opposite to that of sin; therefore, the tendency of the latter is to produce happiness. It never inflicts punishment, but in order to counteract sin, and consequently to operate against ultimate and final misery.
To say the action of sin and that of holiness, both alike terminate in simple and permanent misery, is to say they are essentially the same in nature and tendency.
A holy being delights in holiness; and is disposed to promote holiness as effectually and universally as it can be promoted: consequently, the Holy One of Israel never will do anything to prevent the spread of holiness in any region of the universe, where moral agents are willing it should prevail. He will never do anything to hinder any of his creatures from repenting of their sins, and becoming holy; for this is what the devil has been doing ever since sin entered into the world.
To affirm that our Creator will pursue this course in a future state is to suppose the most holy being and the most unholy one will manifest themselves alike, both in person and operation.
God's aversion to sin is not an infinite hatred of sinners; otherwise no sinner would ever be forgiven. To say he abhors their wicked character, and that he is at the same time unwilling for them to turn from their wickedness, is another gratuitous and manifest contradiction on which the system of inexorable vengeance hangs.
It is clear that holiness in God's children does not cause them to hate sinners, in any other sense, than having an abhorrence of their evil character. They love their persons as fellow creatures, therefore they do all they can to prevail on them to forsake their sin and to seek after holiness.
Is not their Heavenly Father of the same disposition? Will he not ever remain the same? If a change shall take place in his mind hereafter, it will seem necessary that a change should take place in the minds of his people; that in a future state they may hate sinners, and no longer have a desire that holiness should be extended through intelligent society.
Has any man ever learned this kind of orthodoxy from the Bible? If any people imagine that true holiness causes them to love the doctrine of infinite sin and misery, as brought about by the judicial vengeance of the Almighty, they are very much mistaken; and they need a rebuke from Jesus, such as the disciples received when they requested that they might have power to call down fire from heaven upon the Samaritans: -- you know not what manner of spirit you are of.
A fondness for this system of wrath arises from a source very different from that of holiness; and it would be well for men not only to inquire into the foundation of their opinions, but also to scrutinize the cause of their attachment to those views of future misery, which are so reproachful to God, and so revolting to the feelings of justice and humanity, benevolence and rectitude of the Supreme Being.
God hates sin but loves the sinner. He will destroy the former, and save the latter.
21. Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1.
There is a sufficiency in God to banish all doubt and fear from the human heart.
Acquaint yourself with God, says Job, and be at peace.
God is holy, just and good, and this is, and ever will be, the character of his administration in all departments of his vast dominion in time and eternity, and hence all he does promotes, and ever will promote, the well being of his creatures.
St. Paul exultingly exclaims, "Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say rejoice." Phil. 4:4.
The character of the Supreme Being constitutes a perfect foundation for unceasing and eternal joy; there is nothing in him, or in his dispensations, of a contrary nature or tendency. The whole intelligent universe is under moral obligation to rejoice in the character of the Creator, and in all the divine operations proceeding from that character.
23. God so loved mankind he sent his Son to save them.
"We have seen, and do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world." 1 John 4:14.
24. Jesus was sent to destroy sin.
"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." I John 3:8.
25. Christ will accomplish that for which he was sent.
"The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands." Isa. 53:10.
God sent Christ to save the world, to destroy all sin, and he will do the Lord's pleasure.
26. All men are given to Christ.
"Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for your possession." Ps. 2:8.
"The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand." John 3:35.
All things means all intelligent beings (the radical all).
27. God has given all things to Christ that he might save them.
"You have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as You have given him." John 17:2.
28. It is certain that Christ will save all that the Father has given him.
"All that the Father gives me shall come to me and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out." John 6:37.
All things are given to Christ that he may give them eternal life. All shall come to him and none shall be cast out.
29. Jesus Christ tasted death for every man.
"We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." Heb. 2:9.
Can any be forever lost whom the Son of God died for?
30. Jesus gave himself a ransom for all.
"He gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time." I Tim. 2:6.
Will the devil have any that Jesus ransomed?
31. Jesus did not die, or give himself a ransom in vain.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Isa. 53:11.
32. All the ransomed shall be saved.
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isa. 35:10.
33. He is a propitiation for all sin.
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. I John 2:2.
34. On Christ was laid the iniquity of us all.
And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity us all. Isa. 53:6.
35. He is to take away the sin of the world.
?Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world.? John 1:29.
36. He will draw all to him.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:32.
37. All mankind shall serve Christ.
I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man came in the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not
pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Dan. 7:13, 14.
Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be ALL IN ALL. I Cor. 15:24-28.
In Daniel it is said, dominion and glory and a kingdom were given to Christ; and Paul informs us that he will return them to the Father at the resurrection. In Daniel, the objects of those gifts are stated, and Paul tells us that they will be fully effected, that all things, namely, all people, nations and languages shall serve him who, with all things, will be subject to the Father, that God may be all in all.
38. Christ is the universal Light.
I am the light of the world. John 8:12.
That was the true light which lights every man that comes into the world. John 21:9.
When all shall receive light from the great sun of righteousness none will sit in darkness, (the region of the shadow of death.)
Is it not surprising that notwithstanding these declarations there are still those who contend a large part of mankind will be doomed by the LIGHT of the WORLD to spend eternity in darkness and death!
39. Jesus is the Head of every man.
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. I Cor. 11:3.
Christ, then, is the head, and all mankind compose his body.
Will Christ's body be saved or damned? Go to heaven or be shut up in hell? Enjoy God's presence or be consigned to the devil?
40. Jesus is set forth in the Old Testament as the Seed of the woman who shall bruise the serpent's head, the Shiloh to whom the gathering of the people shall be, the Rock smitten, the Well of water, as a fountain of life, the Fountain to wash in from sin and uncleanliness, the Sun of Righteousness, the bright and morning Star, the Stone cut from the mountain without hands, destined to fill the whole earth, a Shepherd to lead and feed his flock, a Refuge for the weary, an Ensign for the people, a Prophet, King and Governor to instruct and rule them, from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the ends of the earth, the Righteous Branch and the Tree of life, both to heal and nourish the nations, the Messenger and Testator of the Covenant, the Refiner and Purifier, a Feast of fat things for all the people, in short, the Salvation of God to the ends of the earth.
Shall the serpent's kingdom eternally stand? Shall the people never be gathered to Shiloh? Shall souls forever thirst and never taste of the water of life? Shall sin and uncleanliness never be washed away? Are there millions of souls on whom the Sun of Righteousness, with healing wings, shall never rise nor shine? Shall not the whole earth be filled with the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea? Will the Shepherd never feed his flock, nor the weary ever find rest? Will the people never flock to their Ensign, nor the Prophet instruct, nor the King rule over them? Will the nations never be healed? Will the Messenger of the Covenant never come to his temple, nor refine his silver, nor purify the sons of Levi? Shall not all the people partake of the Feast of fat things? And shall not the salvation of God extend to the ends of the earth?
The New Testament presents Christ as a universal and complete Savior.
He is the true Light that lights every man that comes into the world, the Bread of God, that comes down from heaven to give light to the world, the Physician to heal the morally diseased- the Author and Finisher of faith- and the Captain of Salvation, Jesus, or Savior, who should save his people from their sins- the Deliverer who shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob- the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world- the Head of every man- the Head of the Church, which is his body, and the fullness of him that fills all in all, the Heir of all things- the faithful and true Witness- the prevailing Lion of the tribe of Judah, the door and Shepherd of the sheep, who gave his life for the sheep- the Mediator and Testator of the better covenant.
The complete Savior of the whole world.
If Christ be the true light that lights every man that comes into the world, shall not every man be enlightened?
If the Bread of God gives life to the world, shall not the world have life?
If the morally sick are healed, shall they eternally remain diseased?
Shall not faith, in the now unbelieving be perfected under the Author and Finisher?
Will salvation be completed under the Captain who "shall not fail nor be discouraged"?
If he saves his people from their sins, shall they eternally remain unsaved?
If he turns away ungodliness from Jacob, and takes away the sin of the world, shall ungodliness and sin forever hold mankind in endless bondage?
Shall the body of Christ eternally remain incomplete, or diseased, or in bondage?
Shall the Heir of all things never possess his inheritance?
Does the faithful and true witness swear falsely when he declares, "and I, if I be lifted up "from the earth, will draw all men unto me"?
Shall the Lion of the tribe of Judah be defeated and never prevail?
Shall the sheep never enter the door opened for them, nor the Shepherd that died for them, lead them into the green pastures, and by the side of the still waters of God's love?
Shall the Mediator never accomplish the object of his mission, or see the better covenant fulfilled, nor witness the conferring of the inheritance on those to whom it was bequeathed and attested by his death?
If he is the Savior of the world, shall not the world be saved?
Can he be the Savior of the world if a large portion of the world be eternally lost!
Endless misery = NO: At-one-ment = YES
All things were created for Christ declares the Scriptures.1
All things were created by him and for him. Col. 1:16.
If partialism is true, a portion of mankind was as surely made for the devil as for Jesus Christ, and in the winding up of human affairs, each party will receive its due, a more God-dishonoring notion, corruption never invented. Was it in view of this end that God in the beginning pronounced man good, VERY GOOD?
Was it in view of this end that the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Job 38:7.
The words of St. Paul seal this famous dogma with everlasting condemnation.
ALL THINGS were created FOR CHRIST.
Will any who belong to Jesus, sin and suffer forever?
Will they not all finally partake of the salvation promised in the Gospel?
A voice from the cross of Jesus and the throne of God assures us that they will.
All things are to be reconciled to God.
And having made peace through the blood of the cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in heaven or things on earth. Col. 1:20.
The phrase "all things" = all beings in all dimensions of heaven, earth, and underworld.
The radical ALL!
The plain meaning of this passage is that it is God's purpose to reconcile all mankind to himself, through the instrumentality of Jesus Christ, whom the Apostle elsewhere terms the Mediator between God and men.
Ultimate reconciliation is God's plan.
Jesus Christ is the agent of God to accomplish this great work.
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 1 Cor. 5:19.
God works by means. By means of the sun he illumines and warms the atmosphere; by means of the rain, he cools and purifies the same, fertilizes the soil and fills our fountains with living water; so by means of Jesus Christ, he is saving the world.
It is God's purpose to save all by Jesus Christ.
We are informed that God's pleasure shall prosper in his hand. -Isa. 53.
He is the medium by which God confers spiritual blessings on ALL mankind.
Christ has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. -II Tim. 1:10.
Christ did not bring eternal death and an endless hell to light.
He revealed life and immortality for our race beyond the grave.
Temporal death is the last enemy man will ever encounter, and that is to be destroyed by the Lord Omnipotent.
Christ died and rose again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and the living. -Rom. 14:9.
The Apostle Peter writes The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all. -Acts 10:36
Lord means owner: Jesus is the owner of all mankind, the dead and the living. Will one soul that belongs to Jesus Christ be forever lost?
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Owner of all mankind: dead & living.
Christ's name, and office, is Savior.
You shall call his name Jesus (which means Savior), for he shall save his people from their sins. -Matt. 1:21.
All people = the dead and the living.
All things are given to Christ.
Here we are told that he will save them, (remember, he is called the Savior of the world), hence his very appropriate name.
In the character of God, as exhibited by the spirit, the works, and the whole life of Christ, we find an irrefutable argument for universal salvation.
Jesus appeared on earth in the character of a Savior, not of a destroyer; a friend, not a foe of mankind; an impartial and kind benefactor of all, not a capricious revenger of pretended or real wrongs.
When persecuted, he retaliated not; when reviled, he reviled not; when reproached and scoffed at, he did not curse his foes.
His whole life was one continued exhibition of love, benevolence, and compassion.
It is emphatically and truly said of him, he went about doing good.
To the poor and needy he was condescending and humane. He gave health to the sick, feet to the lame, ears to the deaf, speech to the dumb, sanity to the lunatic, bread to the hungry, forgiveness to the sinful, salvation to the lost, and life to the dead.
Ever merciful and mild, he compassionated the sufferings of every condition. He wept at the grave of Lazarus, his friend, and also over the approaching woes of Jerusalem, where resided his bitterest foes; and even for his bloody and cruel murderers he prayed on the cross, and in the agonies of death at their unfeeling hands, besought his Father for their forgiveness.
If we would know the character of God, we must study the character of Jesus
If we would know how God will deal with those who love or hate him, his friends and foes, we should learn how Christ dealt with those classes, for he was God manifested in the flesh,was the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.
The character of Christ is the character of God; the tenderness and compassion that Jesus possessed for all men, the good, the evil, is that which God possesses for all mankind.
If our heavenly Father is as benevolent, compassionate, and forgiving, as his Son, will he bless or curse, save or damn our race?
Will he be merciful or unmerciful to us?
Will he favor us with everlasting life, or curse us with everlasting death?
Will he take us to heaven, or shut us up in hell?
Will he permit us to enjoy his presence, or put us in possession of the devil?
At-one-ment YES: Separation NO!
Quote from: FineLinen on June 18, 2021, 04:50:37 PM
Christ's name, and office, is Savior.
You shall call his name Jesus (which means Savior), for he shall save his people from their sins. -Matt. 1:21.
All people = the dead and the living.
All things are given to Christ.
Here we are told that he will save them, (remember, he is called the Savior of the world), hence his very appropriate name.
In the character of God, as exhibited by the spirit, the works, and the whole life of Christ, we find an irrefutable argument for universal salvation.
Jesus appeared on earth in the character of a Savior, not of a destroyer; a friend, not a foe of mankind; an impartial and kind benefactor of all, not a capricious revenger of pretended or real wrongs.
When persecuted, he retaliated not; when reviled, he reviled not; when reproached and scoffed at, he did not curse his foes.
His whole life was one continued exhibition of love, benevolence, and compassion.
It is emphatically and truly said of him, he went about doing good.
To the poor and needy he was condescending and humane. He gave health to the sick, feet to the lame, ears to the deaf, speech to the dumb, sanity to the lunatic, bread to the hungry, forgiveness to the sinful, salvation to the lost, and life to the dead.
Ever merciful and mild, he compassionated the sufferings of every condition. He wept at the grave of Lazarus, his friend, and also over the approaching woes of Jerusalem, where resided his bitterest foes; and even for his bloody and cruel murderers he prayed on the cross, and in the agonies of death at their unfeeling hands, besought his Father for their forgiveness.
If we would know the character of God, we must study the character of Jesus
If we would know how God will deal with those who love or hate him, his friends and foes, we should learn how Christ dealt with those classes, for he was God manifested in the flesh,was the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.
The character of Christ is the character of God; the tenderness and compassion that Jesus possessed for all men, the good, the evil, is that which God possesses for all mankind.
If our heavenly Father is as benevolent, compassionate, and forgiving, as his Son, will he bless or curse, save or damn our race?
Will he be merciful or unmerciful to us?
Will he favor us with everlasting life, or curse us with everlasting death?
Will he take us to heaven, or shut us up in hell?
Will he permit us to enjoy his presence, or put us in possession of the devil?
At-one-ment YES: Separation NO!
certainly convinces me !