(Ver 1.3)  The is Part 1 of a series of important Bible lessons countering the lies of the enemy being taught in churches called the doctrine of “Universal Salvation”.  I know it takes all kinds of different people to come up with some of the stuff that I have heard being taught from the Bible.  They probably have a lot of help from Satan to invent these concepts, but that is just how Satan works.  One of the most obscure and ridiculous things that I have heard being taught from certain nameless individuals is that everyone on the earth will be saved eventually.   This would include mass murders, terrorists, rapists, and everybody else that you can think of.  People base their beliefs upon a limited number of scriptures that seem to indicate the possibility of this occurring, but they also ignore many other scriptures that directly contradict and conflict with their beliefs.  This is a classic example of how some people read the Bible and have taken “A TRUTH” and have exalted it to become “THE TRUTH”.  People make this mistake all the time in many Christian denominations.  It is a very dangerous practice, but yet one that is found widespread in almost every church.  This type of teaching is what I call extremism.  They will take a truth to an extreme while excluding all conflicting verses they do not agree with.  However, the only correct way to interpret the Bible is to review all truths and all scriptures on a subject and then balance them all together.

People who teach this philosophy of Universal Salvation, start with believing in the complete saving power of the shed blood of Jesus, the stated love and mercy of God and the divine sovereignty of God and these are actually all very good truths to believe in.  They claim that the Bible says Jesus has paid for everybody’s sin by His death on the cross and by His shed blood He has purchased or redeemed us all from any future eternal torment.  They are at least partially right in those beliefs, but yet still mostly wrong misapplying them that everyone is now saved.  They embrace sover very basic Bible truths and then jump to some incorrect outrageous conclusions.  You see there is more than “One Truth” in the Bible!  If you only take a few of the truths and ignore all of the other truths in the Bible you are only partially right, meaning you are mostly wrong.  No lie from Satan is based upon completely false teachings no found in the Bible.  Every very good lie is based upon a lot of Bible truths with mixed in human reasoning and lies making them much more difficult to see.  Here is another popular verse that these teachers like to use to promote their idea of Universal Salvation:

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God being an omnipotent God says that He is not willing that any should perish.   Omnipotent means of course “all powerful”.  Since God holds all power, whatever He desires is what happens, according to these religious people.  These types of teachers have concluded that God’s will, will prevail over all others.  They can even claim that everything that happens in the world is always the will of God and therefore they justify all of the evil in the world as being something from God also.  So in their minds that have determined or reasoned that if a man like an Adolf Hitler has killed over a million Jews it was the direct will of God that this occurred.   So the universal salvation peddler says that Adolf Hitler will eventually be saved like all the rest of us.  It is really a crazy belief system and one that makes no logical sense to me.  However, I do understand how they logically arrived at their state of deception.  I believe many people have wanted to believe this teaching because of their close relatives or friends that they knew who have died without knowing Jesus and they do not know what happened to them and they do not want to think of them being tormented eternally.  Therefore, they embrace a false sense of hope in order to believe this person made it into God’s family.

People who believe things like this usually do not believe in an enemy or an unseen opposing evil spiritual force like demons.  They purposefully close their eyes so that they do not understand that there are two different spiritual forces at work in our world today.  These two spiritual forces are in direct competition and opposition to each other for the souls of the people in the world.  One spiritual group is called those of the “Day” and the other spiritual group is called those of the “Night”.  The Bible says that those who are in or of the “Day” have the light of Jesus Christ shinning in their hearts or spirits (2 Peter 1:19).  Then those in the “Night” are those without the light of Jesus and are they that dwell in the darkness controlled by Satan.  Two separate spiritual divisions. one of Light and the other of Darkness (Acts 26:18)!  Here is a scripture that has great significance to our subject:

Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Universal Salvation teachers like to think that God is an all loving God and a God who is full of mercy to everyone.  After all, what loving, all powerful God would allow any of his innocent creation to go to a place of eternal punishment?  It is so amazing that the Bible tells us that Satan has deceived the whole world in Rev 12:9.  That is a pretty broad statement and an all inclusive term.  However, Christians we know are in the world, but not of the world so we can see that Christians have not generally been deceived.   What we must discover and get others to see is the fact that Satan has deceived a lot of people into not believing the truth.  Then people need to understand how Satan has accomplished this deception.

What is Satan’s motivation to deceive people if everyone is going to be saved?  Have you ever asked your self that question?  I mean come on and think with me for a change using your brain for change.  If you continue to read in Revelation 12 you see that Satan is very angry and has great wrath towards the human race and those that are in the church, because it says that he knows his time is short.  Satan can clearly see that things in the spiritual realm is winding down to a final conclusive point of time.  He can see what is happening in heaven the spiritual realm, the church and the physical world.  He is trying to cause what God said in the Bible that is soon to occur, not to occur.  This is the key motivational factor for why Satan is trying to deceive you right now.  Satan’s only hope is to destroy the nation of Israel and to eliminate the Church or at least keep the church divided.  If Satan can do either of these, he thinks he can change his eternal fate and destiny.  At the very least he thinks he can put it off a little longer and delay it from happening so fast.

There are many who struggle with the fact that there are many religions in the world today.  Why would a loving God create or allow so many possible ways for man to better themselves and to achieve a higher state of being, they were not all legitamate paths to travel?  Many people have concluded that God loves people so much that he made many ways to achieve salvation.  However, I believe, that the primary reason God has allowed this to occur is for many compolex purposes, but it all goes back to the fact that God gave every man the right to choose.  Giving man a freewill is God’s right of giving the man the right to be wrong!  When God created the first man and woman on the earth, He presented them with a simple binary choice.  He even told them which one to choose and which one to avoid and yet they made the wrong decision.  Any choice presented to us by God dictates that we have the responsibility of things to choose from and a direct decision to make.  But, it does not mean that every way that we have chosen to go in is the right way or the correct way for us to go in.  That is what Universal Salvationists would like you to believe.  It does not matter what you choose the everntual outcome will be the same becasue of God’s Grace.  However, let’s get back to why Satan is deceiving people today?  Those in the far east and the rest of world that have chosen to believe in Buddha as their choice or option when it was presented to them have actually fallen into this trap of the enemy’s deception.  Satan causes religions to spring forth as instruments of depction.   What makes you think that it does not matter what you do here on the earth and what path you select to travel on?   What makes you believe that choosing Christianity is no different than choosing Islam?   Just because you select an Islamic path, it does not mean that this was the correct way to God.  It is kind of like the old saying, if you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.  That is the dilemma that people are faced with today everywhere in the world.  Because, they do not know this True unseen God they usually end up looking for Him in the wrong places.  After all any religion is better than no religion, or is it?  Could it be that Satan has put all of these other religions in the world in order to deceive people from choosing the right one and to keep people from selecting the only way that will let them into the Kingdom of God?  Why can’t there be One Absolute Truth against many lies?  If I was the enemy that is what I would do.  I would put out so many options, so much propaganda, distractions and smokescreens that nobody could see or have time to find the truth.  It is an amazingly useful strategy in war time, isn’t it?  Keep your enemy distracted with little things here and there and then strike with a big thing when they are not looking.  This is a common ploy of the Taliban in Afghanistan.  You of course have to understand that there is a spiritual war going on.  If you refuse to read and believe the whole Bible and only take a few verses out of context to justify your beliefs you can be wrong like the other religions in the world. 

God wrote the Bible in a fashion using techniques that purposely allowed men the right of choice.  They can read the Bible and get out whatever they want to see from the Bible and to ignore what they do not want to see.  God tells us to specifically to “rightly divide the Word of Truth” (2 Tim 2:15).  This verse implies there are many ways to wrongly divide the Bible.  Just as there are many false religions God wrote the Bible to allow many false teachings.  So how do you know when you are right or not?  That is a really good question.  It starts with knowing the author personally, and then He opens the book up for you to see what it really means, if you are interested of course.

If you would like to continue reading this series, you can go to “Part 2“.