Thread by @AndrewRillera

If I say "*all* have sinned & are being justified as a gift by God's grace" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out that Paul said this in Rom 3:23–24, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."🧵

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If I say, "one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out Paul said this in Rom 5:18, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all," you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out Paul said this in Rom 11:32, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ," you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out Paul said this in 1 Cor 15:22, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "I'm convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And Jesus died for all" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out Paul said this in 2 Cor 5:14–15, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out Paul said this in 2 Cor 5:19, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say "at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven & on earth & under the earth, & every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" & "if u confess w your mouth Jesus as Lord...u will be saved" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist,+

but if I point out Paul said this in Phil 2:10–11 & Rom 10:9, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out "Paul" said this in Col 1:20, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "Christ is all, and in all" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out "Paul" said this in Col 3:11, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" & "Christ Jesus, gave himself as a ransom for all" & "God is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe," you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out "Paul" said this+

in 1 Tim 2:4, 6 & 4:10, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

If I say, "the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all human beings," you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out "Paul" said this in Titus 2:11, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."

And on and on. E.g., Col 1:27

And even with these non-Pauline texts:
1 John 2:2
John 1:5
John 3:17
John 12:32
Acts 3:21
Heb 2:9
1 Pet 3:19; 4:2–6
2 Pet 3:9, 15
Rev 5:13
Rev 15:4

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One of the greatest miscommunications of all time would be that none of these folks meant what they wrote. How stupid of folks like Origen & Gregory of Nyssa to take these statements as "clear"? What morons!

Let's add some OT passages:
Lam 2:2 w 3:3:21–26, 31–33
Ps 103:8–10
Ps 30:5
Ezek 16:53–55
Ezek 37 (see QT)
Egypt & Assyria in Isaiah 19:19–25
Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, in Ps 87:4
Moab & Ammon in Zeph 2:9; 3:8–11 & Jer 48:1–47 (Moab) & 49:1–6 (Ammon)

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