As the philosopher Bernard Williams realised: That religion can be a nasty business (with its evil admitting God) is a fact built into any religion worth worrying about, and that is one reason why it has seemed to so many people the only adequate response to the nasty business that everything is.
In sum, opponents of universalism must either restrict God's redemptive love to a limited elect or admit that God's love will suffer an ultimate defeat in the sense that his own desire for the human race as a whole, as expressed in places like 2 Timothy 2 4, will never be satisfied.
"In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England," he would write, taking the book's title from the eponymous Wordsworth poem.
The angels in heaven were then forced to admit that God was indeed right, whereas the fallen angels faced atonement for their sins either on earth or in hell.
Indeed, Proclus says, Aristotle's own principles ought to have made him admit that God was a creator.
But and this is the important point even the atheist can, without too much difficulty, admit that God is nothing but Nature.
Once you admit that God is finite, you've opened a can of worms, for there are all sorts of equally probable alternatives to intelligent design.
To contemplate the real causes of Climate Change and its ever-obvious reality is to actually admit "My God, we are killing ourselves!" A hard pill to swallow, but it is nothing short of that.
Remember first confess you sins, next admit to God that you have sinned and then be baptized.
2. Henotheists admit many Gods too, but you will only have time to devote yourself to one, and that's okay because these are not self-doubting, jealous Gods.
