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Ep. 108 David Bentley Hart responds to claims of heresy by Fr. James Dominic Rooney regarding the necessity of all being saved

Grace Saves All: Christianity and Universal Salvation

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Is There a Double Effect?

The reason that hell exists is that God permits people to sin and remain in sin and then resurrects them eternally, but their suffering is accidental. If he's truly the creator of all things out of being, what that means is that all the goodness of the kingdom, not accidentally, because you see there are no accidents here. The possibility of that eternal damnation was written into the fabric of the conditions of the act of creation. It's part of the price that was accepted in advance. Even if it was only an open possibility, it's not accidental. It's essential to the whole calculus of creation. All of creation, all its goodness, all its bliss, all its joy

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