Paul

, as in Paul’s vision, God will in the end be ‘all in all’ (1 Cor. 15:28), then nothing present and nothing past is excluded. We are told that in the fulfilment of the times all things will be united in Christ, things in heaven and things in earth’ (Eph. 1:10) and ‘all things reconciled to him, whether on earth or in heaven’ (Col. 1:20), because ‘all things were created through him’ (Col. 1:16); and if this is so, we have to talk about the universality of God’s grace. ‘Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father’ (Phil. 2:11). Then ‘universal reconciliation’ can no longer be a heresy and a reproach. It is an expression of hope and of trust in God’s goodness. But the decision is God’s alone" Moltmann ☀