Why I am, or try to be, a Universalist:
It does not seem logical or scriptural that God demands fear instead of love and that fear creates love or leads to love. A loving God would not condemn anyone to an eternal hell be or expect obedience and love as a means of escaping hell. If hell is distance from God and some form of punishment, we experience that here---but we can also experience something of heaven. Is hell as strong or as enduring as God? No, it can't be---and so it cannot be eternal and in an eternal conflict with God. Which is stronger, love or fear? Love is, and so God has the victory. There can be no tied contest between God and hell or love and fear. We pray that the Holy Spirit is "everywhere present and fills all things," meaning that the Holy Spirit would be present even in an eternal hell if it existed. God's love will not abandon us even in hell. When Christ cried on the cross “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” was He not speaking for all people for all time, and would God not hear His prayer?
Between now and the time of our passing our job is to love and serve others, being as human as we can be within God's abiding image, and let God be God and leave divine judgement to God.
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