Christian Universalism is the belief that when Christ died on the cross he paid the price for everyone's sins right then and there. In effect, his atonement removed God's wrath for sin from every person throughout history regardless of whether they know it or not. In the Universalist view, faith does not matter for salvation.
Now, Universalism is not a Biblical view, and to believe in Universalism you have to overlook and ignore broad swaths of the Bible. But even from a purely practical point-of-view it is farcical. Most of the twelve disciples were martyred. The apostle Paul was beheaded in Rome. Peter was crucified upside down. It makes no sense that these individuals would gives their lives to spread the news that everyone was going to be saved. If everyone would have been saved whether they knew it or not, why die to tell them?
Would you devote your life and your death to telling people information that didn't matter?
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