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Earthly life is not pointless for universalists
Hill, Scott
Hill, Scott
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2025-11-26
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Evil,God,Infinity,Origin essentialism,Pointlessness,Universalism
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Hill, S. (2025). Earthly life is not pointless for universalists. Religious Studies, 1–16. doi:10.1017/S0034412525101352
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Some philosophers and theologians argue that if God will save everyone, then earthly life is pointless. No matter how good earthly life is, heaven would be far better. So we would have been better off if God had started us off in heaven. I present and defend two objections to this argument. First, time on earth does not result in a deduction from time in heaven. Pick whatever amount of time you might wish to spend in heaven. You will spend that much time in heaven whether you are on earth first or not. Second, given origin essentialism, we could not start off in heaven rather than earth. Our very existence depends on our earthly origins. © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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Cambridge University Press
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Religious Studies
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0034-4125
1469-901X
1469-901X