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    Universalism — Carmelics
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    Universalism

    The belief that all people will ultimately be reconciled to God

    168 ideas in this topic

    61 of 168 ideas have perspectives(36%)

    168 results

    Accepting God's forgiveness sincerely and contritely opens a person to the possibility of beginning anew.

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    All beings, including non-sentient things like grasses, trees, and the land itself, hold the potential for awakening.

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    Christ manifests and solves the contradiction between the individual and the collectivity.

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    Christ saves human beings.

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    Every human being can attain individual felicity of the hereafter

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    God does not save all men because doing so would require ways of willing that are unwise

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    Nishida's universalism is still plagued by exemplary particularism, merely shifting the locus of the concrete universal from Europe to Japan rather than overcoming Eurocentrism.

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    Peter Abelard comes close to, but likely would not fully endorse, universalism.

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    Self-power (jiriki) and other-power (tariki) are non-dual aspects of a single movement toward enlightenment.

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    Some kind of connection with God constitutes meaning in life, even if one lacks a soul.

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    The messianism of Lurianism was not apocalyptic.

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    The more hope transcends any specific anticipated form of deliverance, the less vulnerable hope is to the objection that the hoped-for deliverance does not occur.

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    The normative demand to establish a classless society must be separated from any issue of truth and recognized as a form of Utopian ethical idealism.

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    The only obstacle to the joy of beginning anew is a person's refusal or resistance to accepting God's forgiveness properly.

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    Universalism is the true Hell

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    Vast numbers of celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas presently exist who have already reached attainment.

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    We cannot be sure of the membership of the city of God.

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    (If Universalism2 is true) There may be different "stations," degrees of blessedness, in Heaven

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    An unjust theory cannot be the most plausible theory

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    Choosing Hell would cause irreparable harm to the individual

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    Compatibilism is true

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    Compelling necessitates facts paired with proper orientation and motivation of the heart

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    God divides humanity according to some degree of a criterion to determine who goes to Heaven or Hell

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    Supports→Universalism is the true Hell

    God does everything He desires and is able to do

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    God does not commit extreme evil

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    God would avoid limited punishment if He could

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    God would not allow people in Heaven to suffer irreparable harm

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    If Universalism1 is true, then God is prepared and willing to continue torment for all eternity

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    If all of the above is true, then Universalism1 has to be false.

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    If everyone is saved, there is no point in Christian redemption

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    Glossary

    knowledge

    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

    Related Topics

    Eternal Conscious Torment453Against an aspect of God242Against a future action of God77Proof of definition segments1659
    All sources support it595
    No other argument is better65
    Annihilation208
    Against an attribute of God416

    Connected Topics

    Topics that share ideas with Universalism

    Religious Experience10 sharedDivine Attributes7 sharedAnnihilation4 sharedTrinity4 sharedInsubordination to God3 sharedPhilosophy of Language3 sharedForgiveness & Mercy3 sharedEternal Conscious Torment2 shared

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