Kalen Fristad is the leader of this ministry. He is a United Methodist minister,
who has served churches in Iowa for twenty-eight years. He began this
ministry in July 2003.
He states; “I have found that many people want to know how a God of love
and mercy could throw some people into hell and leave them there for eternity.
They wonder if this belief could really be true.
“Such a negative view of God doesn’t have to prevail. The alternative is to
realize and celebrate that, according to the Bible, God will not abandon lost
people, in this life or the next, but will continue to work for their conversion and
transformation until every one of them is saved. This will be done without
violating anyone’s free will, just as those of us who are already Christians were
converted without our free will being violated.
“I believe that the teaching of a God of eternal damnation is contrary to
everything Jesus stood for, and causes many people to turn away from God.
On the other hand, I have found that people are naturally and joyfully drawn to
the true God of love, forgiveness and nurture, to experience salvation.
who has served churches in Iowa for twenty-eight years. He began this
ministry in July 2003.
He states; “I have found that many people want to know how a God of love
and mercy could throw some people into hell and leave them there for eternity.
They wonder if this belief could really be true.
“Such a negative view of God doesn’t have to prevail. The alternative is to
realize and celebrate that, according to the Bible, God will not abandon lost
people, in this life or the next, but will continue to work for their conversion and
transformation until every one of them is saved. This will be done without
violating anyone’s free will, just as those of us who are already Christians were
converted without our free will being violated.
“I believe that the teaching of a God of eternal damnation is contrary to
everything Jesus stood for, and causes many people to turn away from God.
On the other hand, I have found that people are naturally and joyfully drawn to
the true God of love, forgiveness and nurture, to experience salvation.
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| Meet Rev. Kalen Fristad |
“The teaching of a God of eternal damnation does a terrible injustice to God. It makes God our adversary rather than
our advocate, and an unmerciful judge who holds a grudge for eternity.
“Two of the most basic tenets of my faith are that God is unconditionally loving, and is all-powerful. It is because of
those two foundational beliefs and the specific support of universal salvation in the Bible that I am compelled to believe
in it. A God who, out of love, desperately wants to save everyone but is unable to accomplish it, isn’t much of a God.
By the same token, a God who is quite capable of saving everyone but callously chooses to not do so is not much of a
God. But the all-powerful and all-loving God as presented in the Scriptures, and in whom I believe, has enough love and
power to save all of humankind.”
our advocate, and an unmerciful judge who holds a grudge for eternity.
“Two of the most basic tenets of my faith are that God is unconditionally loving, and is all-powerful. It is because of
those two foundational beliefs and the specific support of universal salvation in the Bible that I am compelled to believe
in it. A God who, out of love, desperately wants to save everyone but is unable to accomplish it, isn’t much of a God.
By the same token, a God who is quite capable of saving everyone but callously chooses to not do so is not much of a
God. But the all-powerful and all-loving God as presented in the Scriptures, and in whom I believe, has enough love and
power to save all of humankind.”
| Destined For Salvation Ministries |