A Layman Investigates Universal Salvation
eBook - ePub

A Layman Investigates Universal Salvation

Discovering the Truly Good News

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Layman Investigates Universal Salvation

Discovering the Truly Good News

About this book

What do you know about universal salvation? What is its history? Have mistranslations of the Bible created an eternal hell that does not really exist? What prominent persons in Christian history taught this doctrine and which ones worked to destroy it? Is the teaching of universal salvation truly a heresy, or has it been suppressed by church leaders interested in controlling their people by fear? Patrick Seamus O'Hara needed answers to these questions. This book is the result of research in which he went back into Christian history to examine events leading to the suppression of this once-popular teaching in Christianity. Drawing from ancient writings, he looks at problems with Bible translations, political intrigues within the church, and the personal foibles of church leaders which led to the teaching of universal salvation disappearing from the Christian lexicon.The three main objections to universal salvation are the Fifth Ecumenical Council, the Bible, and the writings of the early church fathers. The author examines each one of these and shares from his research the reasons these are not legitimate objections. The universal salvation of God's immense love is truly the good news of the gospel!

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Permissions
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction: Journey to an Unknown Land
  5. Part One: Church Councils, Scripture, and Traditions of the Church
  6. Part Two: Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Beliefs on Hell
  7. Part Three: The Eternity of Hell from the Church Fathers and Scripture
  8. Part Four: Using Reason and Intellect to Understand God
  9. A Summary–Context Is Everything
  10. If This is True, Why Even Bother?
  11. Closing Comments and Questions
  12. Bibliography