ABSTRACT

It’s a familiar eschatological view that there are people in each possible state in the afterlife. Some people go determinately and eternally to heaven and some people go determinately and eternally to hell. And everyone that goes to purgatory will eventually go determinately and eternally to heaven. The familiar eschatological view rejects the doctrine of universalism. According to universalism, all are ultimately redeemed to enjoy eternal communion with God. Universalism ensures that no human beings are beyond redemption; every human being (or perhaps every being that can go to heaven) does go to heaven.