Salvarea Universală. Noi Opinii în Teologia Contemporană
The Universal Salvation. New Opinions in the Contemporary Theology

Summary/Abstract: God's judgment with eternal effects contains a great mystery. The mystery of the autonomous man, who desires to rule himself, according to his own laws, is that he can stand eternally before the many signs of God's love and before the most terrible sufferings, and yet challenge God to the end, not to try the solution of overcoming them by accepting communion with Him. And the great mystery is that God does not destroy man for the refusal of communion, although he despises his eternal repentance and refusal, but respects man forever for both existence and freedom. Based on biblical, historical, and logical arguments, we have found that the universal salvation postulated by some contemporary theologians is not a sound theory. Even if universalism were doctrinally supported by Holy Scripture, which is not the case anyway, and even if solid theological and philosophical arguments supported it, universalism could still not be the official public teaching of the Church, for it would conflict with the moral, spiritual and missionary foundations of the institution. Regardless of the approach, most arguments converge towards a single solution: universal salvation is not possible for all people, given the magnitude of human freedom and responsibility, which has consequences in eternity. At the same time, however, we can hope with sufficient reason that the number of those who will reject God forever will be very small.

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