Re: snippets from the hard copy universal reconciliation library of Rodger Tutt -- The Christian Paradigm

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Subject: Re: snippets from the hard copy universal reconciliation library of Rodger Tutt

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Date Posted: Thu, Mar 29 2012, 6:08:40
In reply to: Rodger Tutt 's message, "snippets from the hard copy universal reconciliation library of Rodger Tutt" on Mon, Mar 26 2012, 14:53:02

#4 � A SNIPPET FROM THE INESCAPABLE LOVE OF GOD � THOMAS TALBOTT

�The corrective effects of kolasis aionios last forever. But as a means to an end, it will not last any longer than is necessary to produce the end for which it exists in the first place.

When we finally weary of our own selfishness, petty jealousies, and lust for power; when we learn at last, perhaps through bitter experience, that these lead only to ruin and cannot bring enduring happiness, that nothing short of union with God and reconciliation with others will satisfy our own deepest yearnings; when we discover that the Hound of Heaven has finally closed off every alternative to such a union, we shall then, each of us, finally embrace the destiny that is ours.�

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Date Posted: Fri, Mar 30 2012, 6:21:27

#5 � A SNIPPET FROM A TREATISE ON ATONEMENT � HOSEA BALLOU

�We are told of a god who created millions of beings whom he intends for endless torments and puts His whole design into execution; and this is called supreme goodness.
In millions of cases this god finds it most for his glory to make his rational, hoping, wanting creatures endlessly miserable.

We are likewise told of a devil who acts for his own gratification, and who delights in making God�s creatures miserable; and this is called badness.

Shall we thus represent our kind and merciful Father from Whom streams of goodness continually flow to His wanting, needing creatures? No; let every vibration of sense within us acknowledge His bountiful hand which will never close.�