My Life Story

Hi everyone. Here's the story on how I found the this site, the truth that God will save everyone. From Atheism to Man Made Religions to Eternal Torment to Annihilationism to Universalism

I was born into a Christian household. We were in an extremely fundamentalist legalistic church, but we escaped. After going to a few churches, we settled on a regular one that we now still go to.

Even though I attended church, at that time I did not truly know about God. I would read atheism blogs and study Nihilism by Friedrich Nietzsche. Eventually, I realized these were lies. There is no way that life is meaningless. We must have a purpose. I then started researching other religions Buddhism, Hinduism even Zoroastrianism. The problem with all of them is they required special works. Meditating for a long time, doing specific good deeds, mandatory pilgrimages. It was all man made, fake.

Then I looked back at Christianity. I was never told how to be saved, so I searched online looking for answers. I came across the extremely fundamentalist site Jesus-is-savior.com by Eternal Torment believer David J. Stewart. I don't go to that site anymore, I do not recommend any fellow Universalist to go there, but it's there where I learned a lot about the Bible and how to be saved.

These were the steps of my prayer. I saw myself as a sinner, believed with faith alone that the only way to Heaven was to accept Christ's free gift of salvation. He died on the cross, was resurrected three days later and His blood, by grace, saves me. Afterwards, I felt this wonderful feeling, my head got lighter and I felt a huge wave of relief. That was the moment when I was born again.

However, that was not the end of my journey. Looking more on that site, I could not believe that a loving God would send people to be tormented forever. Looking back at the exChristian sites I was at before, a big reason people rejected Christianity is they thought God would be torturing people in Hell.

Then, I found Annihilationism through rethinkinghell.com, the belief that, instead of torturing people forever, God would simply keep them dead forever. (Similarly, I do not recommend any fellow Universalists go to this site). While better than Eternal Torment, it was not good enough. It felt like a waste. Why would God create people with so much potential, just to destroy them? Logically, God is good, God loves us and would want all of us to be saved, is what I began to think.

Then I found the Tentmaker site, the truth, Christian Universalism, that God will save everyone through Jesus Christ, He will bring everyone to Heaven for happiness because He wills it. And when reading through the site the first time, I felt a similar relief to when I was first saved. Except, even now, when looking through here and all the Bible verses that prove this as the truth, that feeling of happiness stays there.

All this time, I would go on sites by man-made authors, telling me what to believe. I never actually really read the Bible without someone else's interpretation. So I read through it, all the hundreds of verses supporting Universal Reconciliation and it was true. This whole time, the truth was right in front of me, plainly written. I believed myself to by smart and wise to search online, always looking for a man made answer or tradition, but all I needed was to believe like a child, the simple truth, that God loves everyone and will save everyone.

Right now, my Christian parents both still believe in Eternal Torment. Even though they escaped fundamentalism, like I did, they could not escape from man-made views. And even when I tell them about Universalism, they do not believe it. They are both saved, at least. But I also feel relief knowing, eventually, they will understand the truth like I do. All people will in Heaven.

[quote]Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

Ephesians 1:10 As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Psalm 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

1 Corinthians 15:22-28 All will be made alive in Christ, but each in his own turn and ultimately Christ will subdue all his enemies, eliminate death and God will be all in all.[/quote]