{"id":7226,"date":"2026-08-23T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:18:34","slug":"universal-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7226","title":{"rendered":"Universal Redemption?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Universal Redemption?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><em><br><\/em><em>&nbsp;by Don Fortner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Lord Jesus Christ poured out his life\u2019s<br>blood at Calvary, he did not make salvation a<br>possibility, but a reality. He obtained eternal<br>redemption for God\u2019s elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any doctrine which says that Christ wants to save<br>those who perish, tries to save those who perish,<br>and provides salvation for those who perish is<br>nonsense, theological rubbish, and blasphemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus Christ is God almighty!<br>He is not a whining wimp. What he wants to do he<br>does (Isa. 46:10). He never tries to do anything.<br>He simply does what he will. His grace, his power,<br>and even his will are irresistible.<br>(Ps. 135:6; Dan. 4:34-35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he wanted to save everybody in the world, where<br>is the force that could stop him from doing so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any man who worships a god who wants to do what<br>he cannot do, or tries to do what he fails to accomplish,<br>is a fool. Such a god, if he existed, would be as useless<br>as a lantern without oil, or a bucket without a bottom.<br>Failure is an embarrassment to man. How much more so<br>it would be to the eternal God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctrine of universal redemption- that doctrine which<br>says that Christ wants to save everybody, tries to save<br>everybody, and provides salvation for everybody, tramples<br>the blood of Christ under foot, despises the work of Christ,<br>robs the Son of God of all glory in salvation, and puts him<br>to an open shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who say, \u201cJesus loves everybody and died for<br>everybody,\u201d proclaim a love and a death which are<br>totally useless for anything more than sentimentalism.<br>They preach a redemption by which no one was redeemed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universal redemption is no redemption at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Redemption was effectually accomplished by Christ on<br>the cross (John 19:30; Heb. 9:12). And redemption is<br>effectually applied by Christ on the throne (John 17:2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It never was our Lord\u2019s intention,<br>desire, or purpose to save all men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Redemption?&nbsp;by Don Fortner When the Lord Jesus Christ poured out his life\u2019sblood at Calvary, he did not make salvation apossibility, but a reality. He obtained eternalredemption for God\u2019s elect. Any doctrine which says that Christ wants to savethose who perish, tries to save those who perish,and provides salvation for those who perish isnonsense, theological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-fortner","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}