Universal salvation?

There are many of various faith traditions, namely Fundamentalists, who are bent on assuring others of their inevitable eternal death in the fires of hell. It is as if this is the central dogma of their entire system of belief. If you do not “accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you are going to hell forever!” Regardless of the truth of this statement, anyone seeking to win someone to Jesus in such fashion is destined for failure. People are simply turned off by these scare tactics. Rather than scaring the hell out of people, the Christian focus of evangelism should be on loving people into heaven. Besides this, consider that you may be wrong in your judgment about someone else’s eternal fate; the last time I checked there is but one Judge in heaven. Even if we were asked to judge the world, could we will that those we have created be tossed aside into the flames of eternal damnation? Is this what you would want if you had the power to judge souls? Is this the punishment you would render unto your children? Imagine for a moment that you are God. As the omnipotent and all-loving creator, would you will that all creation be restored and that “every knee should bow and every tongue confess…” or would you separate the sheep from the goats? What standard would you establish for entrance into heaven, and where would the dividing line be; perhaps somewhere between Mother Teresa and Hitler? If we as mere human beings, who by the way are made in the image of God, would will that the hope of universalism be true, then why not God? I question your love for humanity and your view of God if you said otherwise. This truly is the hope of God who wants “all to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth,” as well as the hope of God’s children made in God’s image. However, only consider these things because God has made this hope conditional, indeed even as the Fundies argue, by grace alone through faith in Jesus Christ alone. Still, I believe the Lord calls all of creation to such a hope, for such a hope truly is universal.