when evil has been universally destroyed. (This is also a point made by the conditionalists.) Further, passages such as Revelation 21 seem to depict unbelievers alive and well in the next world. Universalists reason that if God can forgive sinners in this age, there is no reason why he couldn’t forgive them in the age to come. Some regard the fire of judgment either as restorative or as both retributive and restorative.6 Note that we are not critiquing secular or liberal universalism, neither of