Have Universalists become Boss of God and abolished Hell?

15:00  CLAIRE KHAW joins to discuss universalism.

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/05/theological-exclusivism-v-universalism.html

21:00  Our immortal souls are the vehicles to our allotted afterlife judged on a our performance in this life in being able to tell the difference between good and evil in theory and in practice.

22:00  No mention of the afterlife in the Old Testament.

23:00  Sadducees and Essenes are extinct, but the Pharisees who believed in the afterlife are still around. 

24:00  The 13 Principles of Judaism by Maimonides

25:00  Three categories of the afterlife: heaven, hell and purgatory

30:00  We want to believe that God's in heaven and all is right with the world. 

These famous lines come from "Pippa's Song" by English poet Robert Browning. 

Often sung by the naive, optimistic silk-mill worker Pippa on her one day off, the full stanza reads: 

The year's at the spring,

And day's at the morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in his heaven—

All's right with the world!

32:00  Sinless infants

33:00  Wheat and tares

37:00  Heaven will be big enough to accommodate all who deserve it.

The binary approach

39:00  The ideal and the pass mark

41:00   A good death

47:00  Burning bridges

50:00  Communication skills

51:00  What kind of Christian gets to heaven?

53:00  Purgatory and reincarnation

54:00  Southern Baptist

55:00  Priestly absolution

58:00 God is logical. 

1:01:00  Poolside bars in heaven

1:04:00  Methodism

Churches losing their denominational status

1:05:00  Half-Way Covenant 1662

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Way_Covenant

"Penang’s only synagogue closed down in 1976 as the community could no longer fulfill a quorum of 10 or more adult Jews assembled for purposes of fulfilling a public religious obligation."

1:07:00  Being too strict or too lax

1:09:00  LUKE starts talking and I leave.