You error is couched in generosity and seeming kindness, but it’s still error.

I appreciate it…so glad to hear there are more Universalists nowadays!

I was a conservative Evangelical missionary in the past…I was so conservative I didn’t believe in kissing before marriage! I even called everyone who believed in Annihilation heretics – people like John Stott, Nicky Gumbel and John Wenham. I was definitely a defender of Eternal Torment.

Then I went to theological college…and read about Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Clement of Alexandria, studied some New Testament Greek, and researched into the Early Church doctrines of Theosis, Apocatastasis and Irenaeus’ pre-Augustinian theodicy.

And realised…pretty simply…Evangelical theology is simply Roman Catholic theology in ‘Saved by Faith’ clothing (not by Grace).

Evangelicals are just followers of St. Augustine’s interpretations.

Good old Augustine of course couldn’t read Greek, and believed all babies would go to hell forever unless they were baptised in water…Good old Jonathon Edwards believed that God would roast non-Christian babies over the flames of hell.

Now, I’m definitely a liberal Universalist follower of Jesus!

As my conservative Evangelical friends say, “There are no dumb liberals are there?”

All the best!

René