#universalism

Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Christ is Lord (Philippians 2:9-11) and to God (Romans 14:11), and this confession and belief in him is what leads to salvation (Romans 10:9). Everyone who sees Christ and believes will have eternal life (John 6:40). God loved the world, not merely some of it, and for this Christ was sent to give eternal life (John 3:16). It is not the will of the Father that any child should perish (Matthew 18:14). The good news is for all people (Luke 2:10). All flesh shall see the salvation of God (Luke 3:5-6). The news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it (Luke 16:16). The Lamb of God takes away the sin of the world (John 1:27). He came not to condemn the world but to save it (John 3:17). All things have been given to Christ (John 3:35), and all who have been given to Christ will come to him and not be cast out (John 6:37), and Christ shall lose nothing that has been given to him but instead will raise us up in the last days (John 6:39). All men will be drawn to Christ (John 12:32). All flesh has been given under Christ’s authority, and all that are given to him shall have eternal life (John 17:1-2). Christ will restore grace in abundance much more than Adam’s sin condemns many (Romans 5:15), and he leads to justification and life to all men just as Adam condemned all men (Romans 5:18). God will have mercy on all (Romans 11:32). For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22). Christ died for all, and doing so redeemed all (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). All shall be united in fullness with Christ (Ephesians 1:7-10). All shall be reconciled with him (Colossians 1:19-20). Christ is all, in all (Colossians 3:11). God desires all to be saved, and Christ died in ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:3-6). Christ is the savior of all people, especially those who believe (1 Timothy 4:10) but not exclusively. God brings salvation to all people (Titus 2:11). Christ tasted death for everyone (Hebrews 2:9). He propitiates the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), the Savior of the world (1 John 4:14), everyone shall give him honor and glory and praise and blessing (Revelation 5:13), he makes all things new (Revelation 21:5).

This is anti religion and saneism.

Stars forbid we coexist peacefully and all get along. /sarcasm

@this-is-saneism

Hi! Great question. I'm not sure what post you're taking that statement from, but it does sound like something I would say. I have recently moved from "I adamantly do not believe in the soul" to "I am agnostic about the soul."

What is most important in my belief about the soul is that I don't believe in a place called Heaven where the immortal souls of believers persist for all eternity. I believe in the resurrection of the body, as stated in the creed, and in the final redemption of all of creation promised in Paul's letters, a redemption not just for the souls of the elect, but a total redemption of everything created, from the ends of the universe to the core of the earth and everything in between. If the human soul is part of this creation then it is part of my belief and if it isn't, it isn't.

I do not believe in a mind/body divide or a spirit/body divide. I am skeptical that anything called the soul exists in any meaningful way outside of my body. I am not a soul in a body in the same way that I am not a brain in a body. My brain is part of my body; my soul must be part of my body. Everything that we are is in flesh, which is why our God became flesh.

Belief in the soul as something that can be saved isn't scriptural-- the soul in the Old Testament goes to Sheol and exists as a shadow, essentially. I am not aware of any instances in the Old Testament where the soul alone is saved from Sheol -- and belief in the soul has had disastrous consequences for modern Christianity. My refusal of the soul is less about my actual metaphysical construction of the world and more a resistance of the idea that our purpose is ever to "save the soul" of anyone, especially if that allows the denigration of their body in any way.