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Research and commentary
James Paul Gerke
Approximate reading
14 minutes
I have researched the subject of Universal Salvation for over 10 years. In my studies, I
have discovered that Elohim (Creator) is not all vengeful. He wants all of His children to
be with Him in Heaven, and not to watch most of them burn in the Lake of Fire for ever.
By His inspired words, He is loving, careing, and forgiving. The following documents give
the highlights of important information on that issue, later you can read over 80 scriptures
that prove ALL Will Be Saved.
Universal salvation in it’s simple and proper sense existed in most churches of the
founding fathers. It was very common and virtually unchallenged among early Christians
until the time known as the “Dark Ages” that started in the 5th century.
From A.D. 170 to 430 A.D, there were 6 main Christian schools of thought. Four taught
the salvation of all mankind. One taught total annihilation of sinners at the end. One taught
eternal torment in a burning Lake of Fire. Protestant churches followed the latter, and that
is where the main body of believers are today. (Schaff-Herzog Bible encyclopedia).
Mainstream Protestant churches are still preaching some of the non Biblical doctrines of
that era, and are passively accepted by parishioners.
In the 1st century, Yahshua Messiah (Jesus) established His church. From the forth
century to this day, the Gospel, (Good news) became the bad news. The churches teach
an underlying doctrine, about the vast majority of people born from Adam and Eve until
the present, that are doomed.
They believe the multiple billions of people that have never heard of Yahshua Messiah.
Nor have they accepted, or believed Him in this life. They will be cast into a Lake of Fire,
to be tormented forever. This by our Heavenly Father, whose love never fails. (Romans 8:
39)
This my friends is a contradiction which defies rational thinking, and the scriptures. The
Bible confirms that Yahshua Messiah will have all mankind to be saved, come to the
knowledge of the truth and is the Savior of ALL mankind, especially those that believe.
(1 Timothy 2:4 - 4:10,11) Elohim is of one mind, & who can change Him? What ever His
Soul desires, He does.(Job 23:13)
Here is a subject that theologians have no satisfactory answer for. An opinion survey was
taken of a number of preachers. They were asked why Elohim would allow the major
population of the entire world, to suffer a horrible existence in the Lake of Fire forever ?
They replied “ Because He is Holy.” This also defies rational thinking. Theologians are
correct when they say “You must accept Yahshua to be saved.” Scriptures agree, and not
only in this life.
This is a formality, because He Saved All when He suffered and died on the cross at
Calvary. “While we were enemies, we were reconciled to Elohim by Messiah’s death. And
much more, We Are Saved by His resurrected life.” (Romans 5:10)
Christians have been indoctrinated, and brain washed with the Lake of fire doctrine all of
their lives. The belief is: an earlier faction of the church taught this to keep parishioners
under control with fear and death. In earlier years, they were not allowed to read the Bible.
Protestants, since the reformation, have used negative sounding scriptures as
assumptions. There is embellishment and spin, in interpreting the scriptures, even in this
day and age.
Most Christians are taught and believe that parable stories are real . This could not be
more further from the truth. Strong’s Bible Concordance states. “A parable is a fictitious
narration conveying a moral.” A proverb has the same meaning, as an illustration.
Many theologians interpret, that every negative sounding scripture means Lake of fire.
Their church should be called the Church of Assumption. The scriptures they give about
damnation aren't what they seem to be. An example is the parable of entering the wide
gate to destruction. (Die, perish) and the narrow gate to life. (Mt.7:13,14)
No Lake of Fire here, only an assumption. The wide gate, is a life of self destructive sins.
Crime, drugs, immoral sex and unhealthy life style, can shorten a persons life very quickly.
Matthew (25:31-46) Is a parable about separating the sheep, which are righteous, from
the goats, representing sinners. The story was, that the sinners, didn't feed, (give water),
shelter, clothe, visit the sick, and the prisoners. Yahshua Messiah said “depart, you
cursed into everlasting fire.”
As for the moral of this fictitious story. People were lovers of money. (Luke 16:13 They
were not about to spend their time and money on strangers. The sin committed by the
people in this fictitious story, was knowing to do good and not doing it. (James 4:17)
Their sins were not about breaking the 10 Commandments. Not murder, adultery,
stealing, coveting their neighbors wife, worshiping other gods ect. The Messiah is not
going to cast anyone into the Lake of Fire for not giving someone a drink of water.
He was castigating people for their total lack of charity. Another fact, is that the Bible
refers to mankind as sheep in 39 places, never as goats, whether good or bad. There is
the true story of Yahshua casting demons into the herd of swine. (Mark 5:12,13) The
analogy to that story is, that the beings representing the goats, were demons in the
narration. They will be cast into everlasting fire.
Lazarus and the rich man’s parable shows more stingy people. The people that Yahshua
was preaching to, could relate to His story. They probably held on to their sheckles very
tight, when they saw a beggar. It’s another story of greed. The rich man was symbolically
cast into the Lake of Fire for not giving to the poor.
Have you ever passed by a beggar, ignored help or donations to a charity? Forget about
murder, rape, arson, drugs, porno, ect. Let’s get rid of the tight wads. And guess what,
we are not going to end up in Abraham’s bosom when we die. Abraham has nothing to
do with salvation, or the Lake of Fire.
The error of believing this was not a parable; is that the resurrection and the White
Throne judgment hasn‘t happened yet. (No brainer) Also Abraham’s Bosom would be
very crowded by now. (Luke 16:20-31)
May this writer suppose, that since our creator endowed most of us with humor. Yahshua
might have injected some of it into the parable, when He said. “ Pluck your eye out, cut
your hand, and foot off, if they make you sin.” ( Mark 9:43-47)
The people that were standing there, were not stupid. They knew that those members
don’t cause you to sin. Their mental picture of the multitudes hopping around, on one
foot, with one hand, and half blind, must have caused instant laughter from them. If
Yahshua was serious with that command. Most if not all Christians, should be getting
their disability checks by now. Also, you would be cast into the Lake of Fire for not giving
a thirsty person a drink of water.
There is the parable of people casting out demons, doing wonders and prophesying in
Yahshua's name. “He said “I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice
lawlessness.”(Matthew 7:22,23) No Lake of Fire here. Anyway, this is not something the
average person has to worry about, maybe some T.V. evangelists should.
Another assumption is (2 Thessalonians 1:7,8,9) “Yahshua takes vengeance on those
that don’t know Elohim and don’t obey the gospel of Yahshua. They shall be punished
with ever lasting destruction.” Let the reader take heed. “You don’t know Yahshua, if you
don’t keep His Commandments.
If you say you know Him and don’t keep His commandments, you are a liar.” (1 John 2:4)
We do know for sure, that satan and his angels don’t obey the Gospel or keep the law.
They are not forgiven, but mankind is, through the death and resurrection of Yahshua
Messiah.
In Daniel’s prophesy, 12:2) it speaks of many that are asleep in the dust of the earth.
They shall awake, some to everlasting life. Some to shame, and everlasting contempt.
That is far less of a punishment than the Lake of Fire, which is not mentioned. Elohim has
canceled edicts in the past. This was always for the benefit of mankind. (Exodus 32:14)
(Daniel 9:9)
Elohim will send His Angels to gather all that offend, and those that practice lawlessness,
they will be cast into a furnace of fire, with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the
righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom. (Mt 13:41-43)
Some Christians believe that when they are saved, they are sin free, and righteous.
Maybe they are more spiritual than the Apostle Paul. He said that when he sinned, it
wasn’t him, but the evil, wickedness, and sin dwelling in him. (Rom 7:17)
Sinning is lawlessness and it’s not righteous. “As it is written, there is none righteous, no,
not one:”(Romans 3:10:l How do we become righteous? “ Elohim will cause righteous-
ness and praise to spring forth before all nations.” (Isaiah.61:11) “When Elohim's judge-
ments are in the earth, all inhabitants will learn righteousness.”(Isaiah 26:9) According to
the Bible, we can’t become righteous on our own.
Yahshua said “ The hour is coming that those in the graves shall come forth; they that
have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those that have done evil to the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:29) The Greek word krisis in the Bible is used for both
damnation and judgment.
(Revelation 16:7) Says “Elohim's judgments are true and righteous” Truth seekers, would
agree that the evil and wickedness are satanic, which will be damned. Have you ever
done anything evil or sinful in your life? Are you ready to cast the first stone?
All those that take the mark of the beast, the people not written in the book of life, and all
others. They are instruments of satan when taken captive by him. (2 Tim 2:26) They will
be delivered from their body of death, as Paul was waiting for. (Romans 7:24)
They will be bowing their knees and confessing to Yahshua Messiah at the judgment with
all mankind. (Romans 14:11) People won’t believe that sin is of the devil, even though
scriptures say so. They believe that all sin is man’s doing and on his own. satan’s tactics
are in the powerful influence he has over ALL mankind. The plain fact is, that there is no
sin in a persons life without satan’s input.
The man that had 2000 demons cast out by Yahshua, had to be the most wicked in the
Bible. And yet he was sitting at Yahshua’s feet, and in his right mind. The scriptures show
that our spirit is really us. That our bodies with it’s carnality, are only vehicles and not
spiritual.
In (Galatians 5:17) “It speaks of the flesh that lusts against our spirit, and our spirit
against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you don’t do the things
that you wish.” There are negative scriptures like: “Vessels of wrath prepared for
destruction.” ( Romans 9:22) There are other scriptures that tells of that spirit of evil,
wickedness, and sin that dwells with in us.
This is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
appeaser for our sins. (1 John 2:2) The Bible is saying, even if you don’t have the
knowledge, don't believe, or love the Lord in this life, you will be saved in the next. These
scriptures explains it. “Look unto Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
Elohim, and there is none other. (Isaiah 45:22)
That unto me every knee shall bow, and every tongue take an oath. (Isaiah 45:23) “As I
live says Yahshua, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to
Elohim.” (Romans 14:11)
With the heart, one believes to righteousness, and with the tongue, confession is made
unto salvation. (Romans 10:10) Yes, Salvation is that simple when you add Yahshua's
sacrifice. There are no scriptures that say, it’s too late after death to accept the Lord.
People that don’t believe, are blinded. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
(Revelation 21:8) States “All liars, (among others), will be cast into the Lake of Fire.” A
simple question; If Adolph Hitler and a liar were swimming together in the Lake of Fire.
Would the temperature be the same for both? If a person lied, were accidentally killed,
and had no time to repent, do they join Adolph?
Believe the Bible and not man. It will make you free. (John 8:32) In the index above, click
on the 80 scriptures to prove all will be saved. They will not have to be interpreted, but
will stand on their own.
In the past I have given my email at the beginning of this page. I received hate email from
people that I knew hadn't read the document, just by their comments. I assume you have,
if you have constructive criticism without hate, I will gladly respond. bottomlinez@yahoo.
com .
Comments By James
A good question is, who are the poor? What makes you poor? What groups are there in
the poor? You might say that there is a sliding scale for the poor. The Government
grades them on an economic level, and they have to be under a certain yearly income.
These people are considered poor by the Government, but they have food, clothing and
shelter provided by the states or the Feds. Some call them the lazy poor, since so many
are fat.
Then you have the poor in other parts of the world. Take Calcutta in India for example,
would the poor of India consider that the poor of the U.S are poor. Would they even, if
they were not getting help from the Feds? I would say that street people in India would
believe that our homeless people are rich. India doesn't have homeless shelters. The Lord
saw a woman give to the church when it was all she had, which was less than a penny.
The Lord said that she gave more than the rich people, because it was from her lack. The
rich people gave from their abundance.
There are many intelligent people in this world, and there are many who think they are. I
put myself into the category of not following with out research. The problem is, that the
intelligent people are some times wrong. But the good news is, they are not wrong as
much as the less intelligent. When it comes to the Bible the intelligent people seem to side
with tradition and doctrines of men.
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One of the prime examples is the 7th Day Sabbath. There are two very weak scriptures
that they use to refute it, but ignore forty five plus, scriptures that prove the 7th Day
Sabbath. This is not to say that many churches have seen the light, have changed over,
but still the main stream churches refuse to give up tradition. Click on Sabbath Proof, the
index on top.
What is the greatest gift a human being, could receive? Without question, it must be life
here on this earth. I believe and my research bears this out, that we got a passport into
heaven at the same time. Was Yahshua right when he said that nothing will separate us
from his love.? Was he right when he said that all mankind will be saved and received the
knowledge of the truth.? Was he right when he said all mankind shall be saved especially
those that believe ? Was he right when he said he came to save the whole world ? No
question about it, Yahshua is always right.
Have you ever wondered why mankind was put on this earth? All right, have you ever
wondered why you have been put on this earth? People have asked this question for
thousands of years. In the Bible, the creator has said that he created things for his good
pleasure. I believe that His pleasure is giving us good pleasure, like a father that gives his
son good things, which makes the father happy. Sometimes people ask, why does the
creator do things like that.There is a scripture in the Bible that says, that we are the clay
and Elohim is the potter. We don't ask why the Potter has made us this way, or why He
does things the way he does.
Bible scripture
Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth. Both men and
women and maidens old men and children. Let them praise the name of Elohim for his
name alone is exalted his glory is above the earth and heaven. Let everything that has
breath praise Elohim.
Do not forget the Elohim's law. But let your heart, keep his commandments for length of
days and long life and peace they will add to you. Find the scriptures in your Bible, it is
good practice.
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ALL WILL BE SAVED
There many people that believe that
all sinners should go to hell, because
they deserve it. Not realizing that
they are also sinners.
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