A few words of earnest caution must be added here
For the Bible was not written, as vast numbers appear payday loans Saraland to think, in English, by some Englishman in the 19th century, for his fellow Englishmen
*In the above brief notes I have not attempted an exhaustive comment. It has been my aim to point out the plain natural meaning of the passages cited, in their bearing on the future destiny of man, and to present this meaning in the most simple and straightforward way. Specially have I urged the imperative necessity of truthfulness, of assuming that what the sacred writers say, that they mean, in the ordinary acceptation of their words – that in saying, e.g., “I make all things new,” Christ really meant all things and not some things; that in saying, “God is the Savior of all men,” the Apostle meant that God really does save all men.
I trust it has been made plain in these pages, that in teaching universal salvation, I have not for a moment made light of sin, or advocated the salvation of sinners while they continue such. I earnestly assert the certain punishment of sin (awful it may well be, in its duration and its nature for the hardened offender), but in all cases directed by love and justice to the final extirpation of evil.Leer más »A few words of earnest caution must be added here