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NASB | 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 15:22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. |
Bible Question:
Help! I recently was involved in an informal conversation with some brothers and sisters and someone related this interpretation of Colossians 1:16-21 to us. He said that by Jesus ALL things were created, even the devil...I agreed with that. But he said verses 20 and 21 states that "through the blood of the cross" God will reconcile ALL things to Himself, even those who "were sometime alienated and enemies...yet now hath He reconciled." In other words he was saying, in the end, God is going to "reconcile or save" ALL, even the devil. He went on to say that if God expects us to forgive our enemies, He will forgive the devil who has been His enemy. Also, that this will be God's finest hour to show His "unconditional love" for everyone. He said "EVERY knee has to bow and EVERY tongue has to confess that Jesus is Lord..." and that's all it takes to become a Christian...those who call upon the Lord shall be saved.Rom 10:13. Brought up in the discussion was the parable of the man who hired laborers throughout the day, and everyone received the same wages...even those who were hired at the last hour. But when the subject of hell was brought up, this man said he would discuss this with us another time. Please help me to understand these scriptures he related to us. Thanks, Bereaniam |
Bible Answer: "Universalism holds that everyone will eventually go to heaven--all will be saved in the end. Even though universalists appeal to biblical passages to support their view, this belief is in direct opposition to the teaching of the Bible. Let us examine the so-called 'universalist passages.' "Universalism originted in the Garden of Eden when Satan said 'you will not surely die' (Gen. 3:4). The appeal by Universalists to God's desire to save all is unconvincing because the same God who reveals that He desires for everyone to be saved also reveals that not everyone is saved. Additionally, we must distinguish between God's sovereign will (which God infallibly brings to pass in the world), and His permissive will (what He does not want in and of itself, but wills to occur in light of all of history considered together). "Universalists often appeal to Romans 5:18 to support their position: 'Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.' But in the next verse Paul says 'For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.' We cannot press Paul's use of all in verse 18 any more than we can his use of many in verse 19, for if we do we make Paul contradict himself. Why take the all in opposiiton to the many, causing them to contradict each other? "The word all in the Bible is not always to be taken in the absolute sense--meaning every individual without exception. Mark 1:5 has 'all' of the people of Jerusalem going out to see John the Baptist. Obviously Mark doesn't mean every single person in Jerusalem. The word all often means 'all of some kinds' or 'some of all kinds.' So when Paul says that Christ brought 'justification that brings life for all men,' he is making a reference to both Jews and Gentiles being saved--some of all kinds and not just the Jews, God's first chosen people. "Therefore we see that Paul's point is that the effects of Adam's sin and Christ's righteousness reach 'all men,' meaning that the effects do not apply only to Jews, but extend to Jews and Gentiles alike. This is in accordance with what Paul has been saying since 1:5--that all men, Jew and Gentile alike, stand on equal level before God because of their sin, and all must come to God in the same way--through Jesus. "Verses like 1 Corinthians 15:22, which say 'As in Adam all die, in Christ all will be made alive,' are also appealed to. But theall who are made alive in this passage (and others like it) is equivalent to all who belong to Christ, not all people without exception. This is because 'In Christ all will be made alive' qualifies the expression 'each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruites; then, when he comes, those who belong to Him.' This expression clearly defines who the all is that Paul is talking about--all 'who belong to Christ.' Paul is describing the manner through which death and life came--death through Adam and life through Christ. All who die, die in Adam. All who live, live in Christ. When we look further at the context, we also see that verses 1:18; 5:13; 6:9 are clear that everyone does not belong to Christ. Universalists do not acknowledge the Bible's teaching as a whole, but attempt to argue from only a portion of the biblical data that has been taken out of context. "Sometimes it is argued that the Bible's promise that all things will be reconciled in Christ entails the salvation of all. This is not what the Bible means by the phrase. When the Bible talks of reconciliation of all things in Christ it means that the rebellion of God's creatures against Him will be crushed and everything will finally be made to conform to the perfect plan of God. If we take the reconciliation of all things to mean the salvation of all things, then we must conclude that Paul taught that even the fallen angels would one day be saved. Furthermore, we would have to reject a significant body of data which says that there will be people in hell for all eternity (Rev. 14:9-11; 20:15; Matt. 5:21-22, 27-30; 23:15, 33; 25:41, 46)." --Matt Perman |
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