"The universalist perspective rests upon two theological assumptions for which we can find ample support in the NT: first, that God, being perfectly loving, wills or sincerely desires the redemption of all sinners, and second, that God, being almighty, has the power to achieve this end. If you accept both of these assumptions, then universalism follows as a deductive consequence. So if you reject universalism, then you must also reject at least one of these assumptions; that is you must either deny that God wills (or sincerely desires) the redemption of all sinners or deny that He has the power to achieve it. The Augustinians (Calvinists) deny the first assumption, and the Arminians (OP's) deny the second. But St. Paul, I have argued, endores both assumptions; and in some of his most systematic theological discourses, such as
Romans 5 and 11 and
I Corinthians 15, he explicitly endorses the idea of universal reconciliation as well." Quoted from, "The Inescapable Love of God" by Thomas Talbott.
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