Ken Visscher has a BLOG where he is sharing his deepest spiritual insights and revelations. Check it out, but start from the bottom (older posts) and work towards the top. The sequence is somewhat important, as the blog is turning out to be a bit of an online book of sorts.
Now, Ken is not the first universalist that I am encouraging you to check out. So, before anyone else asks ... No, I am not a universalist, though my understanding might look that way from a limited perspective.
(I'll get into specifics on where universalist go wrong, and what they have right ... but not in this entry.)
So what is so rare about Ken?
What is rare about Ken and a few other universalist, is that the overall context of their faith doesn't suffer from the elevation of human souls that is so common among other universalists. Universalists tend to elevate mankind and make the souls of men the pennicle of creation ... even indespensable to the Creator, as if the universal survivablility of human souls clears God's name so that He will be blameless. This elevates every soul as if each of them inherently HAS real life by default, not so different then New Age teaching, and that wrath at the end of the age that is said to imperil that life really doesn't somehow (and usually that somehow is just explained that God is just somehow "all in all.")
Clearly, Ken, and the other universalists that I have linked to, demonstrate that the harvest of souls is not the key point of Creation. Rather it is the manifestion of God's character - the Glory of God. They always trace it back to His Glory.
Anyway, I'll post more specifics about universalism later, but for now I hope the explaination above is sufficient to express why I can happily endorse universalists like Ken.
Hey. Thanks for the explanation. Truth is, I barely understand what you're explaining, but I think I really appreciate it! (Maybe. I'm not sure.) :)
Glory to God! That part I like!
Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks Bill,
My discernment does not surpass many that are universalists.
There is NO reason for me to take aim at universalists as they are MUCH further along then most. So, I'm in no rush to hash out my points of disagreement with universalism. I'll get around to it someday, as we go along.
Still Ripening,
Trent
I really enjoy your site. As a recovering legalist who is leaning towards a universal reconciliation view but still with reservations, I found Ken's writings, well, strange. He does certainly exalt God over man and had a lot of excellent points, but I'm not sure I believe the visions he has had of Jesus, sounds far fetched to me.I usually hear these types of things from hyper-charismatics. And some of his views I wouldn't subscribe to. I lean more towards Martin Zender's views.
So My loved ones, be blessed as I am blessed...accept your salvation in Christ by way of your repentance to Him and love from Him. Then shall the Spirit come upon you. First as a lightening from your burdens...they have been taken through Christs blood and your acceptance of His sacrifice. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 2 - Seek First That Which is First, This is Where Joy Abounds, Then Comes Wisdom]