Ultimate Restoration (Apokatástasis)

Growing up in a minister’s home, I remember sitting in church every Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night listening wide-eyed as the message of Christ, and the price He paid on the cross for our salvation, was presented with…

Question: Why do we not hear more people proclaiming this message today [of universal restoration]? Answer: Next time you go to church, have a good look at the classic songs of the faith in your hymnal. Also, if your church…

Many early American Christians discovered Jesus as the Savior of the whole world. I have come across hundreds of old books written in the late 1700s and early 1800s that declare in Scriptural form the Everlasting Gospel that Jesus will…

I grew up with two images of God. One was the man upstairs looking down at me and laughing at me. Keeping score of every stupid thing I did. And laughing at my pain in every horrible thing that happened…

“Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth,…

How easily we speak of God being the Creator, the One Who forms the Universe and all it contains, yet contradict ourselves one sentence later when speaking of things in our lives that are not working out right. Is He…

(Taken from the magazine “Gospel Visitant”, 1818) (Introduction to the letter by Hosea Ballou, editor of the magazine.) A Letter The following letter was written by a young woman in the last stage of an incurable disease, to a female…

Recently, a local pastor gave a sermon that declared God absolutely sovereign over everything except man’s will. Man’s will was more powerful than God’s will. This is the conclusion most of the church has taken. Most denominations of Christianity have…

This section has been devoted to reprinting a list of scriptural arguments for the Salvation of all Mankind written by Thomas Whittemore in 1840. We will list 10 more in this issue leaving the last 20 for the next issue…

So what does Paul mean when he says, “Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of His body, which…

While most Christians would agree that death passed to all descendants of Adam and as a result all died, few will acknowledge that the same all who died in Adam will be made alive in Christ. Yet the Scriptures are…

Those of you who have studied the Scriptures for any length of time know there are dozens of passages that declare the “Salvation of all mankind.” I, as well as many others, have made lists of these passages of scripture.…

The above title may sound very strange to most Christians. Most Christians, and the world at large, are in agreement that Christians are divided. While the Scriptures declare there is but one body of Christ, the various denominations and sects…

Part of my role here is to stay abreast with what is going on in the Christian publishing industry. I read a lot of books and I get a lot of material most of you don’t see, the market side…