Christianity and Universalism

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Universalism: The belief that all people are saved, that all people go to heaven.

1. Universalism
   Presents a series of arguments that if an all-powerful and benevolent God exists then Universalism must be true.
2. Argument for Universalism from the Parables of the Vineyard and Lost Sheep. Parables in Matthew and Luke both espouse Universalism.

3. We are judged by our moral choices, not by our religion
   Argues that if people who have had no chance in their lives to learn of Jesus or Muhammed can enter heaven after they die then revealed religion is pointless and wrong. If such innocent and unfortunate people cannot enter heaven then God is immoral.

4. The Mentally Disabled, Atheists and members of wrong religions
   Shows that if the mentally disabled can love God or can be accepted by God or can enter heaven, then so can atheists and members of any religion.

Universalism has long been a feature of Christianity. Modern fundamentalist Christians who deny that anyone else is saved apart from fanatics like themselves, are at odds with the beliefs of many of the very earliest Christians.

The great Christian Origen in the third century, for example, preached universalism. He held in particular that fallen beings, and the Devil, would all be saved eventually. He was condemned by the Council of Constantinople in 543CE, but his 'heresy' of Universalism lived on, despite Christian intolerance of all things nice that culminated in the dark ages. The Anabaptists held this view too.