January 31, 2012 @ 01:51 PM

Just heard a few minutes shy of 2hrs of Kenneth Copeland teaching Universal Reconciliation from 20yrs ago & fully realized that absolutely all Word of Faith preachers have always taught Universal Reconciliation, that it's central to the Word of Faith message & is NEVER contradicted by Word of Faith preachers. Got a fresh stirring about the fact that Universal Reconciliation is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from Universal Restoration. Have insisted upon that for nearly a decade & have always deeply despised the term "Universal Reconciliation" wondering what nitwit came up with that term, because Universal Reconciliation has been taught even by perhaps 50% of the Charismatics from day #1.

The problem ISN'T with seeing THE TOTALITY of redemption in Romans 5, "positionally," but in believing that all DO make it to the end of the train ride with God, even if they've taken a transfer to a negative place along the way & require another transfer to a different train back to God.  Perhaps it's a version of "eternal security" that's needed to be dealt with; a modified version of that message, because as Elhanan Winchester, William Vidler, & others insisted upon, there's a difference between Reconciliation & Restoration!

Yet "Restoration" is taught in Word of Faith circles probably more indepthly than in any other area of Christianity. We're only differing by a matter of degrees for the Word of Faith movement to have the entire "Word of Faith Christian Universalist" message.  Things have become obscured by a fire or a lack of fire message regarding how that restoration takes place when the actual issue is whether or not a human being will reap such a massive negative harvest that they can ever possibly checkmate the harvest God's getting in their lives! Only reason we're sowing & reaping is because God is sowing & reaping. Genesis 2:8 says God "plants." Consider 2Timothy 2:6 & answer the question as to whether any have worked harder than God!

Universal Salvation is an equally "problematic" term that I'll perhaps deal with at another time!