“Before we can hope to understand the Fathers, or rightly to estimate the force of the testimony they bear to Universalism, we must try to place ourselves mentally where they stood. The Church was born into a world of whose… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“Am I then to believe that the same God Who expends millions of years in slowly fitting this earth for man's habitation, will only… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“If God be unchangeable, then what we see-of Him at any moment, must be true of Him at every moment of time; true of… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“-This plea contradicts itself; for to assert that because of man's freedom he can go on for ever choosing evil, is, in fact, to… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“Suppose it were offered to the father of three children to take his choice whether two should be received into heaven and one condemned… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“Before we can hope to understand the Fathers, or rightly to estimate the force of the testimony they bear to Universalism, we must try… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“Pressed by the irresistible weight of these arguments many take refuge in ambiguous and evasive phrases, e.g., "Be sure God will do the best… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“And this brings us face to face with a blunder of our traditional creed, which is radical. It talks of God's love as though… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“If it is said, that there maybe some infinite evil in sin, that, even if true (which nobody knows and Scripture nowhere teaches), does… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“But in fact the traditional creed knows nothing of what love really is. For love is simply the strongest thing in the universe, the… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“(1.) --No one can deny that the New Testament contains a special revelation of the parental tie uniting us to God. When we pray… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image