About the Author and Editor
The website “The Evangelical Conservative Universalist” has come into being as a result of the spiritual journey of the author, George Sidney Hurd, which finally led him to embrace the biblical doctrine of Universal Reconciliation through Jesus Christ.
He was born and raised to believe in the doctrine of conditional immortality, which teaches that all, with the exception of the faithful few, will be annihilated in the lake of fire.
In 1969, at the young age of 18, he came into a saving, transforming relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and began attending a Free-Will Baptist Church which taught Arminianism: that in spite of the fact that God loves everyone, only those who choose Him during their lifetimes will ultimately be accepted by Him. The rest are condemned to an eternal fiery hell.
In 1971, he moved to another city where he began to attend a Calvinistic Baptist Church. The Calvinists believe that God only loves the elect. The rest, by default, are destined to eternal wrath.
After having studied in a Calvinist Bible Institute and later in a Calvinist Seminary, he struggled to find a biblical balance between the two extremes of Arminianism and Calvinism but to no avail. Any way he looked at it, the eternal ruin for the vast majority did not seem like a worthy plan which could have originated in the heart of an Almighty Omniscient Loving Father and Creator of all things who knew the final outcome from eternity.
Finally, he began to see multiple passages referring to the restoration of all - the reconciliation of all through Christ’s shed blood. Then, in 2011, he began an intensive study of Scriptures concerning the subject and after three years of prayerful investigation, he put his discoveries in writing, resulting in the writing of “The Triumph of Mercy.”
This website has been created in order to make available helpful materials, links and a blog for constructive discussion. Although the author read many volumes related to this subject, sadly many who break with tradition in favor of Universalism do not do so based upon sound biblical interpretation. Many liberals and progressives, who typically manifest a low regard for the authority of the Scriptures and minimize the importance of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross as our substitute, have embraced a syncretistic and unbiblical form of Universalism.
The materials recommended on this site are limited to those which, for the most part, appear to share in common with the author/editor the same high regard for the authority of Scripture and the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, who took upon Himself the sins of the whole world. While one may find some variety of perspectives among these different authors, their interpretations are, for the most part, based upon the same theme as Luther’s defense: sola scriptura “only the Scriptures.”
The website “The Evangelical Conservative Universalist” has come into being as a result of the spiritual journey of the author, George Sidney Hurd, which finally led him to embrace the biblical doctrine of Universal Reconciliation through Jesus Christ.
He was born and raised to believe in the doctrine of conditional immortality, which teaches that all, with the exception of the faithful few, will be annihilated in the lake of fire.
In 1969, at the young age of 18, he came into a saving, transforming relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and began attending a Free-Will Baptist Church which taught Arminianism: that in spite of the fact that God loves everyone, only those who choose Him during their lifetimes will ultimately be accepted by Him. The rest are condemned to an eternal fiery hell.
In 1971, he moved to another city where he began to attend a Calvinistic Baptist Church. The Calvinists believe that God only loves the elect. The rest, by default, are destined to eternal wrath.
After having studied in a Calvinist Bible Institute and later in a Calvinist Seminary, he struggled to find a biblical balance between the two extremes of Arminianism and Calvinism but to no avail. Any way he looked at it, the eternal ruin for the vast majority did not seem like a worthy plan which could have originated in the heart of an Almighty Omniscient Loving Father and Creator of all things who knew the final outcome from eternity.
Finally, he began to see multiple passages referring to the restoration of all - the reconciliation of all through Christ’s shed blood. Then, in 2011, he began an intensive study of Scriptures concerning the subject and after three years of prayerful investigation, he put his discoveries in writing, resulting in the writing of “The Triumph of Mercy.”
This website has been created in order to make available helpful materials, links and a blog for constructive discussion. Although the author read many volumes related to this subject, sadly many who break with tradition in favor of Universalism do not do so based upon sound biblical interpretation. Many liberals and progressives, who typically manifest a low regard for the authority of the Scriptures and minimize the importance of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross as our substitute, have embraced a syncretistic and unbiblical form of Universalism.
The materials recommended on this site are limited to those which, for the most part, appear to share in common with the author/editor the same high regard for the authority of Scripture and the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, who took upon Himself the sins of the whole world. While one may find some variety of perspectives among these different authors, their interpretations are, for the most part, based upon the same theme as Luther’s defense: sola scriptura “only the Scriptures.”