What is the difference between Universalism, Unitarianism, and the Universal Life Church

Unitarianism (or Unitarian Universalism as it is properly called) is a denomination that believes in the idea that everyone goes to heaven (although that’s a simplified description) and doesn’t necessarily believe that Christ is divine. Universalism (or Christian Universalism as it is more properly called) is not a denomination but rather a soteriological model (meaning a model of how one is saved) which says that everyone is saved by Christ (who is believed to be divine even if not necessarily a part of a “Trinity”). The ULC is not at all related to Universalism or Unitarianism but is a denomination of sorts made so that anyone can call themselves ordained (if I am not mistaken, anyway).

23-skidoo!

What I do see as truth is everyone sins - Christian Believers as well as the unbelievers. 1 John 1:9 is closer to Truth than Universalism, in fact some have even called this principle of repent of sin and it is cleansed as cheap grace. Nonetheless, it is more Biblical than Universalism - everyone makes it regardless of righteousness and sin. I can’t buy that one.

http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Prevailing.html#90

Three Gnostic sects flourished nearly simultaneously in the Second Century, all which accepted universal salvation: the Basilidians, the Valentinians, and the Carpocratians…. Differing from the so-called “orthodox” Christians on many points, the three great Gnostic sects of the Second Century were in full agreement with Clement and Origen and the Alexandrine school, and probably with the great majority of Christians, in their views on human destiny. They taught the ultimate holiness and happiness of the human family, and it is noteworthy that though all the Gnostics advocated the final salvation of all souls, and though the orthodox fathers savagely attacked them on many points, they never reckoned their Universalism as a fault. This doctrine was not obnoxious to either orthodox or heterodox in the early centuries.

From the site linked: “This doctrine was explicitly taught by St. Gregory of Nyssa, and in more than one passage. It first occurs in his “De animâ et resurrectione” where, in speaking of the punishment by fire assigned to souls after death, he compares it to the process whereby gold is refined in a furnace, through being separated from the dross with which it is alloyed. The punishment by fire is not, therefore, an end in itself, but is ameliorative; the very reason of its infliction is to separate the good from the evil in the soul.”

Sounds an awful lot like kundalini to me…

“Tummo fire energy shows up as rippling heat shimmers of clear light, warm and healing fire. Tummo is the clear light, heat that burns away the emotional blockages, etc. that are at the root of illness. Transmutation by fire. Tummo fire may show up as coloured, depending on what it is burning off, but in itself it is the clear light, transparent like a heat shimmer. Tummo fire is related to Kundalini heat. It is based in the solar plexus, but can show up anywhere in the body, burning off karma. (Some say it is based in the second chakra, but that is contrary to my experience.)

Kundalini

http://www.timboucher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1072