Re: snippets from the hard copy universal reconciliation library of Rodger Tutt -- G O S P E L - P R I N C I P L E S : The Weightier Matters

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

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Date Posted: 06:50:49 09/22/14 Mon
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#338 - THE UNIVERSAL RESTORATION � ELHANAN WINCHESTER

In the memoir of the author it is written, �He found no quietude, until, by a candid and prayerful examination of the Bible, he became fully satisfied that �God will have all men to be saved,� and that �He doeth according to His will.� His change of opinion was soon noised abroad, and produced a great disaffection in many of his former friends.

Here is a snippet from the book.
�The reason why I do not conceive that �forever and ever� doth intend endless duration is because I find the words as often used for times and periods that must have an end, as you find them used for the misery of the wicked. You bring three passages which are all that are to be found in the whole Bible where they are used in that sense; I shall now invalidate those evidences for endless damnation by bringing an equal number of texts where you will allow the words are used in a limited sense. Is. 30:8; Jer. 7:7; Jer. 25:5.
These passages are as many and as strongly expressed as those which you brought to prove endless misery; and yet nothing can be more evident than that they cannot intend endless duration. The words do not necessarily imply that the wicked shall never be delivered from their sins and consequent suffering.

Now if the words �forever and ever� signify without end, then there is a contradiction that cannot be reconciled, but only understand them as the ages of the ages, (as indeed they ought to be rendered), and the whole difficulty vanishes at once.�

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