Is it universalism?
Some people misunderstand Trinitarian theology and assign to it the label of āuniversalism.ā But this is not accurate, for this theology upholds what Scripture says, namely, that though God, in Christ, has reconciled all humans to himself, he will never force any person to embrace that reconciliation. To do so would remove from them an important God-given gift, namely their freedom to choose (and thus to say ānoā to Godās āYESā to them in Jesus). God wants sons and daughters, not zombies who lack the freedom to think and to choose without coercion to love their heavenly Father. Trinitarian theologian T. F. Torrance is on record for rejecting universalism because he sees in Scripture that, in the end, some people will believe while others will not. We canāt fully explain why this is; but neither can we fully explain the presence of evil in a world under Godās sovereign control (see An Introduction to Torrance Theology, by Elmer Colyer, p.54).