#146 Will Everyone be Saved? Top Scholar Weighs in on the History and Doctrine of Universalism
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Is Universalism the opiate of the Theologians? Dr. Michael McClymond has written a two volume work on the history of Universalism and joins me to talk about why he believes this doctrine fails from a historical, theological, and philosophical perspective.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | To be a universalist, you either have to say God overrides the human rejection of himself |
| 0:07.6 | or else it's somehow in some mysterious way we don't really know it, that people are believers, |
| 0:11.9 | even Richard Dawkins, he really is a believer, even though he clearly says he's not. So you'd have to |
| 0:18.0 | you'd have to believe in something that doesn't seem to be supported either by scripture |
| 0:23.2 | or by the tradition of the church or by general human experience. |
| 0:44.3 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast where we seek to equip you, we seek to equip |
| 0:51.0 | Christians to identify the core beliefs of Christianity, discern the counterfeits, and then proclaim |
| 0:58.5 | the gospel with clarity and kindness and truth and of course we always want to do that with plain |
| 1:03.6 | language and I'm really excited to introduce you to my guest for today's episode but I want to |
| 1:09.3 | take a moment let you know about a few things we have coming up. If you are watching on YouTube |
| 1:15.0 | hit that subscribe button and then there's a bell icon that you have to hit to make sure you get |
| 1:19.8 | notified every time we release a new video because you're not going to want to miss some of the |
| 1:23.5 | great things we have coming up. I'm going to be doing a mini series on biblical sexuality with |
| 1:27.9 | Christopher Yuan and Rosaria Butterfield. We're going to be doing a mini series on the theology |
| 1:33.0 | of politics. I word that very carefully because we're not coming on here to tell people who |
| 1:37.3 | to vote for but as Christians how can we take the Bible as our authority and derive our political |
| 1:44.2 | engagement and how we think about politics from our theology. We want to put God first in his word |
| 1:50.9 | first and then other things are going to flow downstream from that. We're doing a series on that |
| 1:55.5 | with we're going to be talking with Dr. Jeff Myers from some ministries and hopefully |
| 2:00.0 | Os Guinness and so you're not going to want to miss any of that subscribe if you're listening |
| 2:04.1 | on audio platforms go ahead and click subscribe leave a great review all of that helps. |
| 2:08.6 | Okay, today's guest I'm very excited to bring you because I for Christmas asked for a big fat |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alisa Childers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Alisa Childers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.