u/AgileAverage7083

Hello, I am someone who has converted from Islam to Christianity and embraced Christian Universalism (Apokatastasis). However, there is a fundamental issue weighing on my mind that makes me feel spiritually isolated: the general doctrine of historic and mainstream Christian denominations (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and traditional Protestantism) is dominated by the concept of eternal hell, and the idea of ​​universal salvation is officially regarded as heresy or theological deviation. Is there any established denomination or organization within the global Christian community that views Christian Universalism as, at the very least, a legitimate theological perspective? I feel quite alone and excluded in this regard. I am aware that independent or non-denominational churches often have Evangelical or Protestant roots and tend to be exclusionary. Furthermore, due to my current life circumstances, I am unable to get baptized right now and must postpone this step to a later time. Is there any church tradition or community in the world that could accept someone like me—unbaptized and holding universalist views—just as I am, and where I could feel a sense of spiritual belonging? What would you advise someone in my situation?

I fear that the idea of ​​universal salvation might not be true and that I could end up in eternal hell alongside my loved ones; how can I overcome this fear? How is it possible to believe in universalism with absolute conviction, free from doubt?

How do you explain the occurrence of extremely low-probability events without God?

For example, if you take a deck of 52 cards and shuffle it thoroughly, the probability of obtaining one particular card arrangement is approximately 1/52! ≈ 8 × 10⁻⁶⁸. Yet a particular arrangement does occur.

Now consider my birth. My parents had to meet, decide to have a child, conceive at exactly that time and under those circumstances, and, among millions of sperm, the particular sperm that ultimately resulted in my existence had to fertilize the egg. If we trace this chain of events all the way back through my ancestors, the probability of me being born specifically as I am can be expressed as something like 1 / 10\^2.5 million — an unimaginably tiny probability.

So my question is this: Without assuming God, how do you explain the fact that an event with an extraordinarily tiny probability — namely, my birth — actually occurred?
I am not merely asking, “Can low-probability events happen?” I am asking how the occurrence of such a specific and extraordinarily improbable outcome can be explained without God.

How do you explain the fact that extremely improbable events can happen without God?
For example, if you take a deck of 52 cards and shuffle it thoroughly, the probability of getting one specific card sequence is approximately 1/52! ≈ 8 × 10⁻⁶⁸. Yet one specific sequence still occurs.
Now consider my birth. My parents had to meet, choose to have a child, have that child at that particular time and under those particular circumstances, and, among millions of sperm, the specific sperm that eventually resulted in me had to fertilize the egg. If we trace this chain of events back through my ancestors, the probability of me being born exactly as I am can be described as something like 1 in 10\^2.5 million an unimaginably tiny probability.

So my question is: Without assuming God, how do you explain an event with a probability as extraordinarily small as 1 in 10\^2.5 million actually occurring—namely, my birth?

I’m not asking merely, “Can low-probability events happen?” I’m asking how the occurrence of such a specific, extremely improbable outcome can be explained without God.