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It's unwise to speak for God particularly when you do not represent His view point. We all have sinned not just "some" as you allege. Therefore it is all the more remarkable that He would choose all to draw/drag to Himself as He wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim 2:4
Poor hermeneutics. You choose to believe the Lukan passage while completely ignoring the Matthean passage. Blasphemy is unique among sins as it is basically a denial of God. So of course one cannot be forgiven by God if one does not even acknowledge God in the first place thus your logical argument falls apart.
I am not speaking for God I am describing what it appears that Universalists are saying. e.g. my previous post.
Aion and aionios never means eternal. Aion means age of time; like eon. How can an adjective modify its noun by not only modifying its meaning but instead have a totally opposite meaning? How can the noun age have an adjective which means eternal?
He allows them to live evilly because they choose to live such lives. He doesn't interfere in their ability to choose. Even as believers saved by grace, we still have the choice to sin or not to sin. Choosing to sin has consequences though such as ending up in the lake of fire. It seems to me that we have a choice in this life; to believe and obey God now by dying to ourselves, take up our crosses and follow Him. Or if we choose not to confess Jesus as Lord and bow our knee now, then there will come a time when every knee shall bow in heaven, on the earth, under the earth and confess that Jesus is Lord (Phil 2:10-11). God has sworn Himself to it (Isaiah 45:23). And we know that what God swears to do, He will certainly accomplish it.
God's reign is not temporary. Jesus' reign is temporary until such time that he puts down every rule, authority and power and then delivers the kingdom to God, the Father as described in 1 Cor 15:24-25. Jesus reigns until He puts all enemies under his feet and subjects Himself to the Father so that the Father is glorified.
Please explain to me how this "Choosing to sin has consequences though such as ending up in the lake of fire." gets "to every knee shall bow in heaven, on the earth, under the earth and confess that Jesus is Lord" and this gets to loving and serving God? Where and how does this complete change in personality occur? Some scripture would helpful.
When the Universal Restitution commences, you can be first to stand up and call God a liar. Fair enough?
