When I was younger, I used to walk away from the idea of Christianity and hell even the belief of a God itself. How could a God so loving ever send my friends to ETERNAL hell for simply believing in different things? It goes against all purpose and meaning of life, of nuance, and I rejected it.
However, I have recently found myself walking back into Christianity, specifically universal salvation and the doctrine of apocatastasis. It’s funny how after all this time, that the original biblical texts practically encourage the idea of universal salvation, from Young’s literal to Rotherham’s emphasized, hell even to the NIV to some extent. It’s…really comforting to know.
I know that many people aren’t of belief here, this site tends to be a mire of suffering and pain these days, and I can’t help but feel embroiled in the anger, but it’s comforting to know that we will all be let into heaven once this reality is all over. From the blades of grass at our feet to our very own souls and to souls long past from across the entire universe, it’s nice to think we will be all okay in the end.
I hope to meet all those I love that are family and that I treat as if they’re family, to give them warm embraces and to play every day like we were meant to be. To explore and to love and to be bask in the victory of not just humanity but all life that has ever lived.
Amen.