Bible study: A loving God saved people from hell

Universalism says that the biblical teaching of eternal damnation is incompatible with the concept of a loving God. Universalists believe that God will eventually destroy all sin and save all people. They would be very comfortable saying, “We all worship the same God by different names. We are all going to the same place! Hell as a place of eternal suffering does not exist.”

Read Exodus 34:6,7; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; and Galatians 5:4.

What misunderstandings about the Christian faith do Universalists have?

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Author: David Scharf
Volume 107, Number 07
Issue: July 2020

David Scharf

David Scharf served as a parish pastor at lmmanuel in Greenville, Wisconsin, from 2005-2016. He now serves as a Professor of Theology at Martin Luther College as well as the chairman for the WELS Commission on Congregational Counseling. A graduate of Luther Prep (1996), Martin Luther College (2000), and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (2005), Dave and his wife, Beth (nee Koelpin), have six children.
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