While I myself have some sentiment towards a more universalist perspective in some respects, we still have to consider here the issue of 'free will', for 'freedom of choice' is spoken of in the scriptures. From a 'conditional immortality' view,...souls may choose 'life' or 'death', since eternal life is a gift, so it appears it can be rejected, and ultimately rejected by those who undergo the "second death". I see that 'free will' is highly respected by God,....so if you propose that God will ultimately get his way with all souls (forcing upon them salvation or healing)...then you'd have to conclude by some way or manner that one's will is somehow converted to God's will, and that Love is ultimately an irresistible power, by which all souls must surrender at some point in time. I'm just probing your logic or perhaps a
philosophical explanation of a 'forced healing', or an inevitable return to God,...which to me would be some kind of irresistible grace. While some passages (if you want to keep the subject within a 'biblical-context') seem to support universalism, others definitively support 'conditional immortality' (which includes the disintegration/destruction of the wicked). How do you deal with those, or evade the charge of merely 'cherry picking' verses?
