Wacky Wednesday--Everyone Goes To Heaven

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~God desires all people to be saved, and God is omnipotent.
~Did Jesus finish the work He was sent to do?
~What an incomplete and inadequate thing it would be for only some humans to be saved by Jesus.
~If all people are eventually saved, then we have a God who not only loves all but is powerful enough to save all He loves.
~If God accomplishes our salvation, why wouldn’t it be accomplished for all men?
~If this were true, wouldn’t it be the most beautiful thing you could possibly imagine compared with the idea that some men will inevitably not be saved?
~He, who created all things, will "reconcile to himself ALL things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross" (Colossians 1:20).
~God has appointed His Son to be the "heir of ALL things" (Hebrews 1:2)
~In God's Son "shall ALL the nations be blessed" (Galatians 3:8).
~God has given His Son "authority over ALL flesh, to give eternal life to ALL whom He has given Him" (John 17:2).
~"The Father has given ALL things into the Son's hands" (John 3:35)
~"ALL flesh shall see the salvation of God" (Luke 3:6).
~God loves even his enemies and "He is kind to the ungrateful and evil" (Luke 6:35).
~"He desires ALL people to be saved" (1 Timothy 2:4).
~He "gave himself as a ransom for ALL" (1 Timothy 2:6).
~He "is not wishing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should reach repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
~He "has consigned ALL to disobedience, that he may have mercy on ALL" (Romans 11:32)
~So God's plan is "to unite ALL things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth" (Ephesians 1:10).
~The Father has "put ALL things under Christ's feet" (Ephesians 1:22)
~The Father has “given ALL things into his hands" (John 13:3).
~Jesus has promised to "draw ALL men" to Himself (John 12:32) because "the Father loves the Son and has given ALL things into his hand" (John 3:35).
~Jesus says that like a good shepherd, He will search for each of His lost sheep "until he finds it" (Luke 15:4).
~"God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him" (John 3:17).
~"The grace of God has appeared bringing salvation for ALL people" (Titus 2:11).
~Jesus is the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
~Jesus gave His flesh as bread "for the life of the world" (John 6:51).
~"He gives life to the world" (John 6:33).
~He is "the light of the world" (John 8:12).
~"He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 John 2:2).
~"He is the Savior of ALL people" (1 Timothy 4:10)
~He is "the Savior of the world" (John 4:42; 1 John 4:14).
~"He appeared to destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8).
~Jesus "abolished death" (2 Timothy 1:10).
~"He has put away sin by the sacrifice of himself" (Hebrews 9:26).
~"In Christ shall all be made alive" (I Corinthians 15:22).
~"He restores all things" (Acts 3:21).
~"At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11).
~"Every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, `To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever! "' (Revelation 5:13).
~"Then comes the end, when he [Jesus] delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For `God has put all things in subjection under his feet.' But when it says `all things are put in subjection,' it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).

Post-show comments: I have to admit that I find this particular theory extremely appealing. I mean wouldn't it be great if...? But here's the basic problem: if this doctrine is true, then Jesus is a liar many times over since He so emphatically and repeatedly taught the doctrine of hell. And if a doctrine concludes that Jesus was a liar, it cannot be called a Christian doctrine. What you have here is two propositions put together with an inference which leads to the idea that everyone gets saved eventually. But since Jesus specifically and the Bible generally (which is all Jesus, really) teach this conclusion to be false, then the reasoning or the premises must be flawed. Although it's not meant as a refutation of this particular doctrine, I recommend reading this excellent article by Tim Keller: The Importance of Hell.