We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,… 2 Corinthians 10:5 New American Standard Bible
The doctrines of hell, everlasting punishment and unending separation are lofty thoughts raised up against the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, His unfolding glory will completely correct all of men’s ideas about free will and election, and other such notions.
Calvinists and Arminians unwittingly have in common this predominant characteristic: a stunted and dwarfish view of the Christ of the cosmos, from whom are all things, through whom are all things, and to whom are all things.
Before the creation, the Son was in the Father and lived by the life of the Father. John 5:26 In creating, He created out of Himself. In the consummation all things will return into Him. Ephesians 1:10 All that will remain is His life–the zoe/divine nature of which all will have become partakers. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive. Not made alive with life that is indigenous to this realm, but with the unending divine life from the divine realm which was promised by God before age-times. And God will be all in all, not all in some or only a few.
Christ is the beginning and at once is also the end. He WAS during ages before the ages, and will still BE after the ages of the ages. Behold the Christ whose power, plan and purpose were granted to us before eonian times! When He comes to have first place in everything, the Calvinists and the Arminians will meet together in peace and the traditions of men will no longer supplant the word of God.
For He did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. He would be neither pre-eminent nor have first place in everything were the majority of mankind separated somewhere from Him in eternal punishment. Such lives would be destroyed, not saved.
Moreover, His word has gone forth from His own mouth and will not turn back: “turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth.” Isaiah 45:21-23 He will not rest until He has safely restored the last lost sheep.
Blessed are you O Lord, our wonderful God. Baruch haba b’shem Adonai. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.