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AN ABSTRACT OF BIBLE COSMOLOGY:
Providing
an
Exhaustive Apostolic & Prophetic Refutation of
the Spirit-Doctrine of Christian Universalism
A presentation of FirstLoveMinistry.org
(2nd Revision March 2019)
PREVIEW
Throughout church history, but especially
since the birth of the 1948 Latter Rain prophetic movement, the
ancient spirit and doctrine of Christian Universalism has broken forth
in a fresh aggressive makeover, gaining new inroads within the body of
Christ at large, paralleling the ascent of the more recent prophetic
movements. Topical treatments in the form of superficial scriptural
discussion prove fruitless in responding to this doctrine.
This work, the result of 14 years of prayerful and reflective
research, dives down to confront Christian Universalism at the
cellular level of scripture, providing an anatomical study of the
apostles' and prophets' testimonies that drive the entire
spiritual cosmology of the Bible from end to end. It is only in the
light of such thorough research that the seductively deceptive
reasoning behind Universalist belief and teaching can be tested so as
to become plainly unveiled for its real nature.
In course of this organic scripture-wide
examination, new light shines on the foundational concepts that serve
as the doctrinal building blocks of our Christian faith at the
cosmological level, beginning with the relationship of the three
universal domains (heaven, earth, and netherworld), proceeding to the
writers' complete treatments of universal enmity due to sin, and only
from there to arrive at the Bible's fully defined meaning of salvation
and reconciliation regarding the universal domains over that enmity.
This abstract comprises some 280 points of detailed discussion founded
in the whole witness of the Bible's authors. For those who
either do not have the time to dive into such expansive study or who
just want to first take a "test drive" of the most critical points to
see if the deeper study is worth their exploring, we recommend to
first read the Introduction
followed immediately by PART
11 which provides a summation
of the core issues in the preceding 10 parts without the
scripture references, and then finish with the Epilogue
which settles "all" on a single issue.
For those who wish to dedicatedly study this work in hard copy, a .pdf version is available on request. For those requesting the .pdf who have been particularly blessed and enabled of the Lord, please consider this invitation to make a stewardship investment of any amount into this ongoing labor of love to the body of Christ. ☑
We commend this study to the serious disciple and student of the Word, especially to those whose more limited knowledge of the Christian doctrine of salvation has left them in doubt regarding the real spirit driving Universalist teaching.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Synopsis of the Christian Universalist
Controversy
Form of this
Abstract
A Note on Translating Words of Duration
Conclusion: "What's At Stake?"
PART 1 - FOUNDATIONS OF TRUE DOCTRINAL BELIEF
§ The Common Faith
PART
2 - COSMOLOGY
OF ENMITY AND JUDGMENT
§ Cosmological Domains and Divided Destiny
§ Cosmological Enmity: Holiness vs. Sin, Death & Judgment
§ Cosmological Destiny and Divine Judicial Decree
§
Divine Judicial Decree and the Universal Enmity Continuum
§ Decreed Vanquishment Is Enmity
§ The Meaning of Death as a Vanquished Enemy
§ Jesus on the Universal Enmity Continuum
§ The Universal Bar of Adjudication
§ The Terminal Endpoint of Cosmological Conflict
PART
3 - SALVATION: DEFINITION, DIMENSIONS & TERRESTRIAL COVENANTAL
DELIMITION
§ Salvation Defined by Relation to the Universal Bar of Adjudication
§ Salvation Defined Preventatively of the Universal Bar of Adjudication
§ Salvation Established Only by Sovereign Unilateral Covenant
§ Salvation Exposited: Provisional vs. Effectual Covenantal Salvation
§ Salvation Exposited: The Grace/Gift of Living Promise-Power Righteousness vs. Terrestrial Force Sin
§ Salvation Contexted by the Terminal Enmity Continuum: Testimony of Peter and Jude
§ Salvation Delimited by Temporal Opportunity and Terminal Limits on the Means of Grace
§
Salvation Adjudicated Only Upon Terrestrial Life Action
- All Faith for Salvation and Its Related Obedience Is Exercised Terrestrially
- All Faith for Salvation Is Ministered Terrestrially
- All Mercy for Salvation is only upon the Terrestrially Living
- All Expectation for Bodily Salvation through the Revelation of Christ is Terrestrial
- The Terrestrial Delimitation of Hope
-
All
Salvation is Ministered in Terms of Terrestrially Mirrored Qualities of
Sustenance
§ The Disciplinary Role of Death inside Terrestrial Conditions of Soul Salvation
§ The Parameters of Resurrection Life
§ The Role of Blood Atonement in Salvation’s Terrestrial Adjudication
§ Two Mutually Exclusive Opposed Seeds
§ The Select, Exclusively Defined Seed of the Father
§ Salvation Belongs Only to a Delimited Believing and Intra-Loving Sheepfold
§ Salvation Belongs Only to a Delimited Sainthood
§ Salvation is Identified Only within a Restricted Kingdom
§ Salvation and the Consummation of the Ages
§ The Time
Factor
§ Anti-Reconciliatory Expectations of Terminal Enmity
§ Divine Terminal Regret
§ Anti-Reconciliatory Heart Hardening
§ Anti-Reconciliatory Expressions of Terminated Existence
§ The Irretrievably Forfeited Salvation of Apostates
§ The Existential Termination of the Wicked
§ The Book of Life and the Divine Terminal Forgetfulness of the Wicked
§ The Anti-Reconciliatory Position of Divine Love
§ The Dynamics of Fire as Redemptive Refining and Non-Redemptive Burning
§ Restorative Discipline vs. Terminal Punishment / Condemnation
§ The Anti-Reconciliatory Terminality of Divine Wrath
§ The Exceptional Disciplinary Agency of Wrath on a Terrestrial Covenantal People
§ Parabolic Resurrection of the Disobedient Under Covenant
§ Remnant Based Restoration
§ The Nature of Restoration Age Lordship and Worship
§ The Restorations of Egypt and “Sodom”
PART
10 - PROFILES OF NETHERWORLD DESTINY
§ The Spiritual Law of Negative Destiny Progression
§ Fittedness of Destiny
§ The Keys of Death and Hell
§ The Place of Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
§ Consummation by Serpents / Worms
§ A Profile of Hell (a.k.a. Sheol, the Pit, the Abyss)
§ A Profile of the Lake of Fire (a.k.a. Gehenna)
EPILOGUE: THE INCONTESTABILITY OF APOSTOLIC WITNESS
§ Words vs. Witness
§ Doctrine as Testimony
§ The Testimony of the Apostle to the Hebrews
§ A Direct Challenge to Dedicated Universalists
§ Conclusion to All
Exemplified by Jesus
Exemplified by the Apostles
Exemplified in the Epistles
Exemplified in the Book of Revelation
APPENDIX C - Paul's Understanding of the Salvation of “All” Men
§ Salvation Redux
§ Summarizing the Meaning of Salvation
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