u/Mothias_Et_Mothium

I used to play this browser game, and I can only remember a little bit. You would collect resources using your mouse. I remember hovering over a group of trees and it would turn your cursor into an axe, and you collect wood. I believe you could upgrade your axe. That's all I still remember about this game besides the fact that I really loved it and lost it probably a decade ago and couldn't remember it. It was on a flash game website.

"If Universalism is true, what's the point of Christ's sacrifice?"

This is the dumbest of the common objections- His sacrifice is why everyone is saved.

"If Universalism is true, then why follow Christ and try to be a loving person?"

If the person who asks this cannot answer this themselves, then that implies that the only reason they try to follow Christ is the fear of not being saved. This is in direct contradiction with:

```1 John 4:18 ESV — There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.```

Where a mature faith is revealed to exclude fear on account of love.

"What about (insert dictator that killed a lot of people)"

What about Paul? We're all equal in guilt according to James 2 but we are not under the law. If even Nineveh was spared, if even Paul was spared... And I could go on, then surely this other person who did some comparable amount of evil can also be spared on account of repentance.

"Yeah but not everyone will repent, hell is locked from the inside and they will reject God eternally."

This is 1st Opinions chapter 3. No, really, the Bible never says any of this. And if it were true, that would contradict every knee bowing, every tongue confessing, confession saving, and even repentance out of fear of judgment saving, as in the case with Nineveh.

"But the Bible says eternal"

No it doesn't, it says age-like

"But the Bible says forever and ever"

No it doesn't, it says to the ages of the ages.

"But these terms are used for God"

They're also used for temporary periods.

Even if it did say eternal and forever, that still wouldn't be enough, because God does not follow through with every judgment He promises, and every time He doesn't, it's for the sake of mercy. God spared Nineveh on account of a fearful repentance, how much more will He spare everyone who bows their knee and confesses the name of the Son of God?

"You're just a Universalist because you like to sin and are afraid of eternal hell."

Infernalists are just infernalists because it's what their family or congregation blindly believed.

Who in their right mind wouldn't be afraid of eternal hell anyways? I'd be afraid if I was locked in a van with Lawrence Bittaker for all of eternity, so of course I'd be terrified of being locked in a pit of flames by a far more cruel and sadistic being: the god of the Infernalists.

I don't think that such an objection to universalism deserves a high effort response, since it's inherently dishonest and bad faith, but it is a common objection.