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Classic Replay: Will everyone be saved? With Robin Parry and Laurence M Blanchard

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

‘The Evangelical Universalist’ was published in 2006. The author claimed to be an evangelical Christian who believes that everyone will ultimately be saved. He published under a pen name, but a few years later revealed his true identity as Robin Parry, then editorial director of UK Christian publisher Paternoster (he’s now at Wipf and Stock Publishers). Laurence M Blanchard, a pastor and author in California responds to Robin's arguments and raises questions such as "what's the point of evangelism if everyone will be saved?" Originally broadcast 17th October 2009. Read Robin's blog here: http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com/ Read his blog as the Evangelical Universalist here: http://evangelicaluniversalist.blogspot.com/ Read about Laurence Blanchard here: https://charteroaklighthouse.org/about-us/our-staff/ If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy the original show when Parry's voice was disguised: https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-15-Mar-2008-Christian-Universalism-will-all-be-saved USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Unbelievable, with Justin Browley.

0:16.6

I'm Ruth Jackson, part of the unbelievable team and you are listening to a classic replay

0:21.0

program from the archives.

0:22.8

The episode you are about to hear was first broadcast on Premiere Christian Radio on the

0:27.1

17th of October 2009.

0:29.5

It features two Christians, Robin Perry and Lawrence M. Blanchard, discussing universalism

0:35.1

and the question of whether everyone will ultimately be saved.

0:38.8

You can get in touch with the show and listen to more episodes at premierchristianradio.com

0:43.9

slash unbelievable.

0:45.5

It's an inter-Christian edition of the show today, as we look at the subject of universalism.

0:53.8

Will everyone ultimately be saved and go to heaven?

0:56.8

This is the view of the evangelical universalist and he's come out of the closet as it were

1:01.8

and revealed himself to be Robin Perry, who is the editorial director of Patanosta, a fairly

1:06.9

major Christian publishing organisation in the UK.

1:09.9

However, he does not represent the views of Patanosta in what he says today.

1:14.4

Well, we'll be asking him why he kept it a secret for so long, publishing under a pen

1:18.8

name, what he believes and why he believes it.

1:22.1

And we'll also hear the other side of the argument from Lawrence Blanchard.

1:26.0

He's a US pastor, he's authoring a book at the moment that looks at the whole subject

1:30.6

of universalism.

1:31.6

He'll be defending a traditional doctrine of heaven and hell.

1:35.3

Hope you can join me for the rest of the program, right?

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