The Romantic Hope of Universalism

Many of Jesus' warnings about the danger of loss are very specific to political and social warnings so that in Luke 13 when he says unless you repent you will all likewise perish he's talking about pilgrims being cut down by Roman swords in the temple. So there's a lot of hermeneutical reading work to be done but out of all of that I think there is a sort of romantic hope within modern western Christianity that actually God is such a nice old chap that he will eventually say there that's all right. We should want as an act of love that all these people we know and love would actually come to the fullness of life which God has for them they ought not to relish