According to many Christians, billions of people are going to a place called Hell to be tormented by God for all eternity. Please hear this very carefully. If Jesus loses just one soul, he will become the world’s biggest sinner. How so you say? Because He will have missed His mark…that is, to reconcile all things back to His Father. “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And he is before all things and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the Church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” (Colossians 1:16-20)

Please understand that when the scriptures talk about “things” being reconciled back to God, He is not talking about rocks and trees. It was descendants of Adam who were cast out of the presence of God in the Garden of Eden, remember? We need to be restored, reconciled, redeemed and the Scriptures make it abundantly clear that His purpose, goal, will and work was to reconcile all. These Scriptures make it abundantly clear what the goal, the mark, and the target which Jesus was aiming at when He went to the Cross of Crucifixion. The majority of the church says Jesus either will not (Calvinist) or cannot (Arminians) due to Satan and the power of “free-will,” save all mankind. The majority of the church says He will sin, that is, miss the mark. There has always been a minority in church history, (which used to be the majority before the dark ages) who believe the Scriptures that declare Jesus Christ the actual Savior of the whole world.

This article is much too short to get into the subject, but none of these Hell or “eternal punishment” type of phrases should ever have been brought into English translations. The Roman Catholic Church, with its “convert or die” policies, took almost all of the pagan and idolatrous practices of the countries it forced to convert and “christened” them, that is, incorporated them into the church. Thousands of pagan ideas and practices became Christian that way. When one seriously studies the Reformation, we realize that Protestants did not go all the way in clean up the “House of the Lord.” They left many false doctrines intact. One of these false doctrines which came from pagan countries is the idea of a place of eternal punishment called “Hell.” A quick look into an encyclopedia should tell a person this word in its religious form comes from Norse mythology, not from the Greek and Hebrew in the Bible.

The whole concept of a place of eternal torment comes from a mistranslation of the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek words Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus all being translated into the Anglo-Saxon word “Hell.” The Reformation translators translated from their traditions, not from knowledge of Hebrew and Greek As Bible translations get closer to the original languages, our pagan concept of Hell will fade away. Paul never preached a place of eternal torment to anyone! That is why he could say in 1 Timothy 4:9-11, “This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.” He could also say and mean, “Love never fails!” (1 Cor. 13:8) John tells us that “God is Love.” (1 John 4:8) Therefore, God never fails! He never misses the mark! We, in our short-sightedness may have brought Him down to our image, that is, a sinner, but He will be vindicated. When He is, will you hand your head in shame? It is not too late to “study to show yourself approved” and see for yourself the glorious Truth that the salvation of the world does not depend upon a hypocritical, lazy, selfish church. No, the world, all of it, is in much better hands Jesus Christ, the Savior of all mankind, Who gave Himself a ransom for all, including you, whether you presently are aware of it or not.

Salvation is for the here and now and constrained for the age of mankind. Scripture says even creation groans and travails in pain, yet we are told the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God and this is why the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. The problem of this present age is that most of Christendom preached a false Gospel of eternal torment and damnation, the sons of God need to rise up in this present age to proclaim the All-inclusive Gospel, to help the Lord put all enemies under His feet, which would result in the Lords return to set up His millennium kingdom and ultimately manifest in the restoration of all mankind in the new heaven and earth