Here is the Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart speaking in his book on Universalism "That All Shall Be Saved". His book is deeply biblical. Mr Hart knows the original Greek in which the New Testament was written so well that he has published his very own translation. In another place I have quoted Mr Hart's argument based fully upon St Paul's "Letter to the Romans'. So far those on this forum who insist upon the eventual eternal/perpetual torment of those who do not share their faith have refused to engage in any debate, to even take a look at the various books I have cited in support of Universalism.They rest supreme in their own personal "truth".
One such simply resorts to posting infantile emoji's expressing derision to my posts on the subject, as if such is any substitute for arguments based upon the Bible itself.
Anyway, Mr Hart:-
In truth, the notion of eternal torment is so unquestionably, resplendently warped and irrational that every defense of it ever made, throughout the whole of Christian history, has been a bad one. We may deceive ourselves that we have heard good arguments in its favor, but only because we have already made the existential decision to believe in hell’s eternity no matter what—or, really, because that decision was made for us before we were old enough to think for ourselves. Even many otherwise competent philosophers have, under the impulse of faith, convinced themselves and others of the solvency of arguments that, viewed dispassionately, scarcely rise to the level of pious gibberish. It has always all been a mirage. So, if one can make oneself retract that initial surrender to the abysmally ludicrous, even for only a moment, one will discover that all apologetics for the infernalist orthodoxy consist in claims that no truly rational person should take seriously. Every one of them is an exercise in self-delusion, self-hypnosis, pacification of the conscience, stupefaction of the moral intelligence—and nothing else.
