1. Are not the two camps of Arminianism and Calvinism irreconcilable due to the fact that they hold to opposite views of the very character of God?
2. Since the Calvinists and Arminians have opposing views of the very nature of the God they both claim to follow is it not true that they cannot closely relate together in the same church body unless they substantially compromise their convictions?
3. Would the Calvinists honestly be able to say that they could love and worship the weak God of the Arminians? Would the Arminians honestly be able to say they could love and worship the predestining/limited atonement God of the Calvinists? NO? Then what does this mean for the Church? Of its hope for unity?
4. Whether you are a Calvinist, an Arminian or an Evangelical Universalist you must all deal with “problem texts” and therefore must each argue from your view of God’s character: absolute sovereignty/limited love, freewill/unlimited love, or unlimited and inescapable love and power. Why is there no tolerance for the Christian Universalist who harmonizes the tension between the two opposing camps?
5. Why are Evangelical Universalists labeled as “heretics” while the distance between the Calvinists and Arminians is fundamentally greater than each of their distance is to the Evan. universalist? In other words the Evan. universalists have more in common with each view than the Arminians and Calvinists do with each other. Ironically both have been heard accusing the other of being “dangerously close to universalism!”
6. Do you realize that these two diametrically opposed views of God are irreconcilable and that they have created an impasse to any true unity within the Church?
7. But have you considered that they might not actually be diametrically opposed but rather simply two parts of a whole? Could it be that the God who loves all and has provided redemption for all is the same God who is powerful and sovereign enough to bring it to pass?
8. Would you believe that the Evangelical Universalist has removed this tension and loves the ONE God who desires all to be redeemed and is sovereign enough, powerful enough, and loving enough to bring it all to pass?! Did you know that the Evangelical Universalist can worship within both theological camps because they together represent one whole?!