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Grace and Atheism

Wherein we ponder God’s grace covering atheism, offend everyone except Jesus, jinx salvation for everyone, gamble on eternal destiny, and explain God’s plan to give you a million dollars while you are in a burning building.

Everyone went to heaven after the message.

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Resources:

• “The Really Bad Thing About Free Will: A Critical Look at the Salvation by Willpower Doctrine” by Martin Zender
• Colossians 1:19-22
• “He Chose the Nails” by Max Lucado
• 1 Timothy 2:4
• Ephesians 2:8-9
• Romans 3
• Romans 10:17
• Ephesians 3:6
• Christian Universalism (Wikipedia)
• “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos as performed by my brother (Download MP3)

See also:

• Matthew 18:12-14 (Parable of the Lost Sheep)
• John 12:32 (“draw everyone”)
• Romans 5:18-19 (“new life for everyone”)
• 2 Corinthians 5:19 (“reconciliation”)
• Philippians 2:10-11 (“every tongue will confess”)
• 1 Peter 3:18 (“once for all time”)
• 1 John 4:8,16 (“God is love”)
• 1 John 2:2 (“sins of all the world”)
• Luke 2:10 (“joy to all people”)
• Psalm 30:5 (God’s “anger lasts only a moment”)
• Psalm 106:1, 107:1 (“love endures forever”)
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (“love never gives up”) cf. “God is love”