The most important argument for Universalism for me is logic.
God is good, beautiful, perfect.
Thusly, the story we tell ourselves about what was, what is and what is to come must also be good, beautiful, perfect.
The theology which is true must be Beautiful Theology.
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This is the story which for me is the best, most beautiful and most perfect of all:
Let me retell the beginning in a slightly different way. Bear with me, i'll make it brief.
In the beginning there were two humans: Adam and Eve. They were living in a garden. They had all the good in the world, there was no bad. They never went hungry, there was no crime, no war, no disease, indeed no death. They did not even have physical bodies, at least not as we know them. And God, the perfect manifestation of Good and Love itself, walked among them. They had indee ALL the good.
Now they had all these trees and on every tree a different fruit, good to eat. There was one tree of which God told them "Do not eat from it or you shall die". This was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Now one day, they ate from this tree. They ate from it because of desire (they wanted to be like God; this in and of it self is not a bad thing i would argue) and because of ignorance (they did not know about the consequences; how could they know death without death?).
Here is the problem: What knowledge can be gained from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil if you already know all the good? Knowledge about evil. And how is this knowledge gained? Not by theoretical studies, not by reading books. But by experiencing evil firsthand. By having evil committed unto you AND by committing evil yourself.
So God looked at them, sighed and said: "So you wanna know evil? I'll show you evil. All of it." And thusly he created this world. This is why it is written "We are of God and the whole world lies in evil".
But because God is merciful and did not want to expose a single consciousness to all possible evil (which may not even be possible), the original consciousness was sharded into billions of different pieces. Each one of us being one of those little pieces. All living enough years to experience much evil but not too much that it becomes unbearable. Some committing much evil, others having much evil committed unto them. Thus came about humanity as we know it. Separate minds, each with its own Ego.
That's why Jesus said: Love your neighbour as yourself. That's why he even said: Love your enemy. Because YOU ARE your neighbour and YOU ARE your enemy. To hate your neighbour is to hate yourself, to hate your enemy is to hate yourself. You are one, just in a state of separation. That is why it is said that we shall be of ONE mind, because it is true and we are indeed ONE mind. That is why it is written: "All of you are one in Christ Jesus". Because we are indeed ONE.
And after life in this world that is given into evil, what happens? All returns to its origin. "You are of dust and to dust you shall return" (The hebrew word ădāmāh where the name Adam comes from means "earth". The word for dust is aphar which can also mean earth. So you could read this as "You are of Adam and to Adam you shall return"). All gets remerged into the original consciousness and with it the acquired knowledge of evil. And with all the evil experienced, the goodness that is to come will in contrast shine even brighter than all the good before.
Now Jesus was handed by God the crown to reign over his kingdom. Jesus was made God by the all powerful God. And because Jesus was also human, an offspring of David, he gets remerged back into the original consciousness just like the rest of us. This is why it was necessary that Christ came as man. This is why it is written: Just as in Adam all die, so in Christ all live.
Because Jesus is God and is remerged into the one, so the other fragments that are joined together into the whole become God by the power of the one, holy, pure fragment. Thusly, indeed what was said in the beginning in the garden is true: You will become like God. As it is written "You are gods, sons of the Most High, ALL OF YOU".
Imagine that: Not only are we saved, but we will become GOD! All of us. Can Gods mercy be greater than this?
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If this is true, then God is perfect, indeed he is beyond perfection. I have yet to hear a more perfect, a more beautiful story. And until i hear something better, because i believe in a perfect God, i must believe in this.