I have developed a great sadness and horror at the thought of some people going to hell, either eternal or temporary. Even if I get to heaven though faith or whatnot, the thought of my fellow humans going to hell is very depressing. I am no different from them, and I easily could have been in their place... this is horrifying to me. I cannot be at peace and enjoy God while he does not save other people from suffering.
It is hard for me to accept a God who creates people into a world where they are in danger of going to hell. If God is good, why would he let people suffer in hell? Even if we have free will, would any person willfully choose eternal or temporary suffering in hell? I don't think they would if they they were convinced of the existence of hell and the reality of the danger of going there. These are rhetorical questions so far, don't answer them.
When I look at the situation that man is in, with our lack of ability to know absolute reality, all we got is guesses at what reality is. Would God expect us to discover absolute reality and the truth about what one needs to do to be saved? Man has always tried to discover it, yet we never will... certainty is impossible for man in this world.
What I'm looking for here, is some information on books or websites that believe in universal salvation to everyone thought Christ's death and resurrection as the one who took the guilt of mankind and saved everyone from eternal and temporary hell. I'm wondering if anyone out there holds this view and can give arguments for it biblically... websites or organizations etc.
1 Peter 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the
gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Revelation says hell shall give up the dead to be judged. The wicked get resurrected too according to Revelation and Jesus.
Jesus said it too:
John 5:25
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live
I believe Peter is going on to explain that those he preached to in prison were "the dead" ie spirits awaiting resurrection.
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
To me he is saying he went in preached to disobedient spirits, but they who had potential to live godly and believe and be resurrected.
1 Peter 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the
gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
LDS have some additional scripture you may be interested in:
D&C 76
50 And again we bear record—for we asaw and heard, and this is the btestimony of the cgospel of Christ concerning them who shall come forth in the resurrection of the djust—
51 They are they who received the atestimony of Jesus, and bbelieved on his name and were cbaptized after the dmanner of his burial, being eburied in the water in his name, and this according to the commandment which he has given—
52 That by akeeping the commandments they might be bwashed and ccleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the dhands of him who is eordained and sealed unto this power;
53 And who aovercome by faith, and are bsealed by the Holy Spirit of cpromise, which the Father dsheds forth upon all those who are just and true.
54 They are they who are the achurch of the bFirstborn.
55 They are they into whose hands the Father has given aall things—
56 They are they who are apriests and bkings, who have received of his fulness, and of his glory;
57 And are apriests of the Most High, after the order of Melchizedek, which was after the order of bEnoch, which was after the corder of the Only Begotten Son.
58 Wherefore, as it is written, they are agods, even the bsons of cGod—
59 Wherefore, aall things are theirs, whether life or death, or things present, or things to come, all are theirs and they are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
60 And they shall aovercome all things.
61 Wherefore, let no man aglory in man, but rather let him bglory in God, who shall csubdue all enemies under his feet.
62 These shall adwell in the bpresence of God and his Christ forever and ever.
63 These are they whom he shall bring with him, when he shall acome in the bclouds of heaven to creign on the earth over his people.
64 These are they who shall have part in the afirst resurrection.
65 These are they who shall come forth in the resurrection of the ajust.
66 These are they who are come unto aMount bZion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly place, the holiest of all.
67 These are they who have come to an innumerable company of aangels, to the general assembly and church of bEnoch, and of the cFirstborn.
68 These are they whose names are awritten in heaven, where God and Christ are the bjudge of all.
69 These are they who are ajust men made bperfect through Jesus the mediator of the cnew covenant, who wrought out this perfect datonement through the shedding of his own eblood.
70 These are they whose bodies are acelestial, whose bglory is that of the csun, even the glory of God, the dhighest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.
71 And again, we saw the aterrestrial world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the bFirstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as that of the cmoon differs from the sun in the firmament.
72 Behold, these are they who died awithout blaw;
73 And also they who are the aspirits of men kept in bprison, whom the Son visited, and cpreached the dgospel unto them, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh;
74 Who areceived not the btestimony of Jesus in the flesh, but afterwards received it.
75 These are they who are ahonorable men of the earth, who were bblinded by the craftiness of men.
76 These are they who receive of his glory, but not of his fulness.
77 These are they who receive of the apresence of the Son, but not of the fulness of the Father.
78 Wherefore, they are abodies terrestrial, and not bodies celestial, and differ in glory as the moon differs from the sun.
79 These are they who are not avaliant in the btestimony of Jesus; wherefore, they obtain not the crown over the kingdom of our God.
80 And now this is the end of the avision which we saw of the terrestrial, that the Lord commanded us to bwrite while we were yet in the Spirit.
81 And again, we asaw the glory of the btelestial, which glory is that of the lesser, even as the cglory of the stars differs from that of the glory of the moon in the firmament.
82 These are they who received not the gospel of Christ, neither the atestimony of Jesus.
83 These are they who deny not the Holy Spirit.
84 These are they who are thrust down to hell.
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These are they who shall not be redeemed from the devil until the last resurrection, until the Lord, even Christ the Lamb, shall have finished his work.