ABSTRACT
This chapter explains an alternative to Swinburne and Hick's theories of hell and universalism. It discusses what it means for God to have middle knowledge and show that with the benefit of middle knowledge, God need not create any person who would not be saved, and thus would not create any world in which all are not saved. The chapter attempts to establish that with the benefit of middle knowledge, God is able to create a world in which God knows that all will be saved, and that an encounter with God after death would be efficacious in providing all people with the opportunity freely to choose God. It begins by looking at the Biblical evidence for hell and universalism. The Bible records the outworking of God's love through interaction with God's people over the ages and sometimes the Biblical writers. Bauckham in his article 'Universalism: A Historical Survey' discusses several different universalist approaches to the evidence of Scripture.
