Ancient universalism is a prominent element in postmodern spirituality. Its roots are in the Garden of Eden, where the serpent convinced Adam and Eve not to obey God’s warning of death for disobedience. “Did God really say . . . ?,” the serpent asked (Genesis 3:1). Then in defiance of God’s assertion he said, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4).

In the same way universalism questions, “Has God really said there is eternal death if you reject his Son? You surely will not die.” That explains why the doctrines of sin, judgment, and hell have all but disappeared from much of postmodern Christian theology.

Parlow, John M. Universalism, p. 29
July 2005. Forward in Christ, Vol. 92, No. 7

Burying the doctrines of sin, judgment, and hell under shovelfuls of “politically correct” love is a page right out of Satan’s longstanding playbook.

Parlow, John M. Universalism, p. 29
July 2005. Forward in Christ, Vol. 92, No. 7

[W]ithout a firm grasp on the Bible’s teaching of hell, we have lost sight of the urgency of clinging to Christ and the eternal destiny from which God has so graciously provided us redemption. Antinomianism always results in “antigospelism.”

Gurgel, Richard L. Postmodern Hell? p. 150
Spring 2004. WLQ – News and Comments, Vol. 101, No. 2

Antinomianism is the fraternal twin of antigospelism.

Brug, John F. The Lutheran Doctrine of Sanctification and Its Rivals. p, 202
Summer, 2004. WLQ, Vol. 101, No. 3

Comment: If the law doesn't sour our stomach, the gospel has no sweetness.

Theologian Leander S. Harding said, “The quintessential American Religion is the quest for the true and original self. Finding the true self requires absolute and complete freedom of choice unconstrained by any sources of authority outside the self… When the self determining self finds ‘the real me’ salvation is achieved and the ultimate self has achieved contact with the ultimate reality.”

This exaltation of the self first blossomed in the values-clarification sex education curriculum used by many denominations in the 1970s—in which teenagers’ self-chosen value systems became the authority for their sexual ethics. We now see its flowering in the Christian gay culture, in which gays feel they will “wither and die” (as one homoerotic bishop recently put it) if they cannot express their sexuality.

No-Fault Division?
July 2004. Christianity Today, Vol. 48, No. 7, p 23