Salvation: A Brief, Preliminary, and Inadequate Proposal
Here’s a bare bones outline of a thought experiment I’ve been playing with concerning salvation, damnation, eternal destiny, universalism, and the like. It’s only bare bones, the main lines of a view that would require much other demonstration and detail. So keep that in mind as you read it. God created our world and us in it to share his life with us here. That’s the big picture within which we live our lives. God wants to be with us, ultimately as one of us (Jesus the incarnate one). This was not instantaneous. We needed to grow into or lives as free, responsible, and response-able creatures to whom God delegated the vocation of protecting, caring for, and nurturing the creation to its full flourishing. Now God is both willing and able to achieve his purposes. We call that divine sovereignty. God gets what he wants. He’s set up the whole process and equipped us with everything we need to succeed. There’s no reason for failure. Yet we do fail! Unfathomably, inexp...