Universalism Distorts the Grace of God

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🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When everyone gets grace, no one actually gets grace. Michael McClymond explains how universalism expels the biblical view of grace.

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0:00.0	Well, happy Fourth of July to everyone in the States.
0:07.7	There's no vacation for the Aspastor John podcast.
0:10.2	No way.
0:11.2	We have too much to talk about, but we do have our own fireworks because today we're in
0:15.6	the middle of a conversation about universalism, the distorted theology that says that everyone
0:20.0	will be saved in the end.
0:22.3	It has this doctrine of universalism has a very long and vast history that stretches
0:28.7	back decades and centuries and millennia.
0:31.9	And that story is now told in a massive two volume, 1,400-page book titled The Devil's
0:37.6	Redemption, A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism from Baker Academic.
0:44.2	The author of that book is our guest again, Michael J. McCleiman, who joins us from St.
0:49.5	Louis.
0:50.5	Michael, it's good to have you back.
0:52.4	You know, on Monday, we were talking about universalism and how the threat remains
0:57.0	very relevant today.
0:59.2	And you mentioned that the doctrine of God is at stake in universalism.
1:02.8	And you even said after writing the book that it was a surprising thing for you to see
1:06.3	how many other doctrines universalism distorts.
1:10.6	So pick it up here.
1:12.1	What are some implied theological entailments of Christian universalism and what are some
1:16.4	of the ways that theology gets skewed in Christian universalism?
1:20.0	Well, if we could start with just with the doctrine of God.
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