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 ND now what
have the opposers to say further? "Oh," say they, "it leads to
universal salvation." We deny the allegation; there is no such
result necessary from our position. Any doctrine may be abused. The
preaching of the doctrine of the abounding grace of God and
justification by faith, led some to accuse the apostles of teaching
a licentious doctrine, saying that they taught, "Let us do evil that
good may come." Life believers have had to meet, continually, the
cry of "Infidelity," because they rejected the doctrine of inherent
immortality. Shall they now take up the cry of "Universal
salvation," because we believe and teach that God will literally
fulfill his promise and oath to Abraham? Or, in other words, because
we believe the Gospel must and will be preached "to every creature,"
and a fair chance given every soul of Adam’s posterity to secure and
endless life, before they are finally doomed to an endless death,
for non-improvement of the grace of God in Christ.
The persons who thus find fault with our position show,
conclusively, it is for lack of other and better arguments. We have
clearly stated that some will utterly perish, and never find eternal
life, because they willfully refuse it on the terms God has offered
it, i.e., by faith in, or reliance on Jesus Christ as the One
Mediator and LIFE-GIVER. No man can come unto God but by Jesus the
Messiah; for says our Redeemer, "I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father; but by me." - Joh 14:6.
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