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It’s not a matter of ignoring verses it’s more of a matter of our understanding those verses and often time we get the wrong understanding because we either read only the English words and never look into the original for what the people who it was written to would have understood it to be . For example the verse that says do good to your enemy and pray for him will be like dumping hot coals over there head . I always took that as a way of getting back at them who wants hot coals dumped on them that would be really bad, but I didn’t know that back then fire was a precious they didn’t have bick lighter so if you fire went out the woman would take a jar and put it on there head and walk to someone and ask for a coal to restart the fire and people were stingy with the coals , so by saying you would dump coals on some ones head it was a blessing not a revenge thing like I read it. So those in UR camp don’t ignore verses we just see them in a different light, like the word translated eternal we accept the translation of that being of the age or eon a more literal translation. That’s not ignoring its having what we would say is a better interpretation in view of the whole of scripture. You see I would say that those who don’t interpret it that way are ignoring all the scripture that says Jesus is the savior of the world/it’s God will that none parish/ as in Adam all die in Christ all will live ect. So really it’s not a matter of ignoring it’s a matter of focus and interpretation.
It could be a 'better' interpretation, but since so many Universalists seem to avoid engaging Hermeneutics, I'm having a hard time precisely locating their exegetical praxis on the map of possible destinations ...
... are there hermeneutical GPS coordinates I can get?
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