The tenets of Historic Christianity are
stated, the nature of truth examined, and adequate reasons to reason out our
faith in Christ have been offered in my previous blog. Let us now examine the
god who welcomes anyone and everyone into heaven. For the purpose of
differentiating the god of the Universalists from the living Triune God, I have
termed the god of the Universalists as ‘unigod.’ I have posited few threads of
argument from within morality (distinction between right and wrong or good and
evil) to question the existence of unigod. But let me begin with worship, which
is man’s response to God’s worthiness.
God should be worshipped for HE alone is
worthy of our worship (adoration, thanksgiving, prayers etc.). God deserves
this response from all people.
From the perspective of Historic
Christianity, since God so loved the world, HE gave HIS only Son, so that those
who believe in the Son of God will receive eternal life (John 3: 16).
Salvation of mankind (those who believe in Christ) is an outcome of God’s love
for man. Since salvation is God first act (through HIS love to redeem man from
his sin), the believer loves God, and worships HIM always. The living God
reveals HIS worth to HIS people by HIS blessed presence, and offers hope that
HE, through HIS second coming, will fulfill all HIS promises (e.g. eliminate
evil forever). Thus man worships this Almighty, loving, gracious and a compassionate
God.
In contrast how does unigod reveal his
worthiness to his people? All that he supposedly does is to save all men
(universal salvation). If this is his only or primary revelatory act of
worthiness, then this god (unigod) has placed himself in a quicksand situation.
If one can negate the unworthiness of unigod by confuting universal salvation
or expose unigod’s attributes to be unworthy of God, then by entailment, unigod
need not be existent and hence worshipped.
The following arguments present the
unworthiness of unigod so to eliminate him from the figment of any imagination.
Argument from Attributes of God:
Man, to love and worship God, should be
aware of HIS attributes or nature. Minimally, love and justice can be posited
as great communicable attributes. Attributes that are perfect in God but also
found in humans to a degree are ‘Communicable Attributes.’
A god who loves all, even those who hate
and abuse him, seems to be a loving God. But a careful examination of this love
reveals cruelty. Please observe this situation, “I don’t want to be with god,
but he forces me to be with him, and I have to spend the entire eternity with
him” – this certainly is a depressingly bitter hope. Holding people against
their will is slavery; none accept, agree, or admire slavery. This is
dictatorship in its glory. But this is precisely what unigod does to people. Love
in unigod is actually cruelty.
Minimally, justice is a disposition to
do that which is morally right. Presence of ‘right’ requires a ‘wrong;’ this is
analogous to rust requiring a metal. Since evil is rampant in the world, a
common man expects the authorities to punish evil. But unigod, as an apparent ultimate
authority, does not punish evil, for he allows even a horrendously evil person
to enter into heaven.
At our workplace, we are extremely saddened
and frustrated when we are victims of injustice. An authority who fails to
provide justice is unjust or evil. By allowing a horrendously evil person to
inherit the greatest good (heaven), the unigod reveals his unjust and evil
attributes.
Since God cannot be evil and unjust, we
reasonably claim that there is no unigod, and that universalism is nothing but
a grand illusion.
Argument from Abuse:
If you are unaware of Dawkins’ intense
abuse (an act of evil) of the living God, please read the endnote.1
Proponents of Historic Christianity believe that Prof. Richard Dawkins, the
bulldog of Atheism, will not go to heaven, if he doesn’t repent of his
sins and accept Christ the Lord as his Savior. The God of Historic Christianity
is a holy God and in HIM is no sin, so sin cannot coexist with God.
Please brace yourself for an unmitigated
indecent assault on unigod. The unigod is an evil, corrupt, depraved, putrid, brainless
blockhead; he is a nonsensical dummy, foolish idiot, insanely ignoramus dolt, a
nincompoop, and a senseless monkey. Anyone can mock and thoroughly disrespect unigod.2
Despite these abuses on unigod, Universalists will claim that unigod will still
save me.
A god who accepts and agrees with abuse
of any intensity is a god without perfection and holiness. Even man’s intrinsic
dignity and self-worth prevents him from agreeing and accepting to abuses of
any form or size. So a god who is awfully comfortable with abuses to the extent
of supporting and welcoming evil is an evil god that resides only in the
fantasies of certain minds.
Argument from Consistent Discipleship:
The Universalists claim that all people
will be saved despite their good or horrendous nature. By the same token, would
the Universalists accept abuse? They technically should accept, for if their
god allows this upon himself, the Universalists, as the disciples of unigod,
should unconditionally allow this upon themselves. Failure of the Universalists
to accept horrendous abuses upon themselves or their families and friends will
intuitively expose their opposition to their own god.
Historic Christianity asserts
Christlikeness in the believers of Christ (Romans 8: 29 et al.). This is not a
mere fact from the realm of the spiritual, but from the realm of the physical
as well. Christians are called to bear fruit and much fruit (John 15).
The contentment and joy of a parent is
directly proportional to the physical and behavioral resemblance of their
child. For example, if a child resembles the goodness of the parent, the parent
will be greatly joyful and contented.
But in the case of Universalism, there
is no resemblance of unigod in the lives of its disciples. The children of the alleged
unigod exist in reality, and the child is to resemble the parent, but the
resemblance of the children of the unigod is much unlike the unigod. So we can
reasonably posit that since unigod exists only in the imagination of the
Universalists, they are unable to imitate their god.
Argument from Existence of God:
The ironclad moral argument for the
existence of God states:
1. If God does not exist, objective
moral values and duties do not exist.
2. Objective moral values and duties do
exist.
3. Therefore, God exists.
Dr. William Lane Craig, the analytic
philosopher of religion, defines objective moral values as, “To say that there are objective moral
values is to say that something is right or wrong independently of whether
anybody believes it to be so.”
We can extend the moral argument for God
to:
4. The unigod saves all people, even the
horrendously evil.
5. So there are no objective moral
values in unigod.
6. Because objective moral values and
duties exist, unigod does not exist.
In conclusion, Universalism is purely mystical
and the alleged god who admits all people into heaven is imaginary, and resides
only in the minds of the universalists. I simply cannot comprehend a god who
saves all people. Please enlighten me if you disagree with me.
I will continue on this subject but from
the perspective of Christian Universalism (Christians subscribing to
Universalism) in my next blog. Amen.
Endnote & References:
1 Dawkins’ view of God in his book ‘God
Delusion:’ “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant
character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving
control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic,
homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential,
megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
2 This indecent attack on unigod is
perfectly reasonable, since unigod is existent only in the dreams and
imagination of universalists.
2 comments:
I don't go with your thoughts bro. I think you have used all efforts to use such harsh words against a Loving God, whether you call Him a God of Universalists or otherwise, God is Universal.
God was partial in choosing Israel as His people and for choosing them as His people he favored them, he rebuked them and at last he punished a few of them in second death (no resurrection), but it was for Jews alone. God sent His only Son Lord Jesus Christ in this WORLD not to condemn but to SAVE the world.
This Christ gave himself a RANSOM for ALL and that too without conditions applied. If you draw a line as to who will go to heaven, I will say none will go. But the scale of God is too Big, that ALL will go.
Please continue....
Thanks for your participation, Bro. Elango. Appreciate it much.
What is missing in your statement is the factor of "belief in Christ."
Anyhow, I will be sharing my views on Universalism from the perspective of Christianity in the next few days. So that should throw some more light into my views.
Keep it coming brother, God bless :)
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