My journey to universalism

[Sherman]

Welcome Ace.

I too have only come to have faith in Christ for the salvation of all humanity, in the last year or so.
Thanks for sharing.
Sherman

[JasonPratt]

Creating beings out of mud is of course to create fallible beings who are prone to get dirty…We were fallible, and thus faulty, from the very beginning, but that’s just because God’s not through creating us.

That is similar to my understanding of St. Irenaeus: Adam and Eve were created as children, and (as typical of children) they got into mischief. Our gradual theosis is God helping us to grow up. Finally, we shall all be grown up (i. e., perfect). Eschatology is the finishing of creation. (Parenthetically, any finally lost being [whether in torments or annihilated] would mean that God’s creation never gets finished: an absurd supposition.)

Justin,

It is of course possible to be fallible (able to fail at something) without already being faulty per se (being already misbehaving in whatever way). ‘Can happen’ does not mean ‘shall happen’, much less does it mean ‘is happening’.

Ace,

Not only does that notion fit very well with St. Paul’s idea of son-placement (and probably what Jesus and the rabbis are talking about to each other when discussing how to “enjoy the allotment of the inheritance” as the Greek puts it), it also happens to fit extremely well with those surprising “baby” goats in Matt 25.