And of course this is your opinion, but "shall" or "should" is simply not in the text it is added by translations. One could just as easily add "will" as some translations do.

There is no indication in the text that God will make or force every knee bow or every tongue confess.

exomologeō
ex-om-ol-og-eh'-o
From G1537 and G3670; to acknowledge or (by implication of assent) agree fully: - confess, profess, promise.

My contention would be that while all should, based on who Jesus is and what He did, not all will do so freely.  aka While Obama is the Preident of all, it's gonna take some effort to get everyone to freely admit it. ;)

Like I said some translations use "will confess" rather than "shall or should confess" and the Greek word exomologeō  obviously doesn't indicate force, nor suggestion, but we can disagree and still agree with UR. Myself I can't see the reason for stating inclusively  "of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;" if it is just suggestively everyone "should bow" but then that's just me.



Another point to be made here is that if the Truth is that everyone confesses because of force than that means everyone including Dayvd, you and me.

As far as basing UR on one verse I agree and I know you agree that UR is based on the whole of scripture

Yes, but in that day, when Jesus is glorified and everyone sees Him for who He really is, I think we'll all be like Isaiah, falling on our faces, confessing He is Lord for it will certainly be evident, bemoaning just how messed up we are, and then He'll take a coal from the altar and purify us.  Hallelujah!

I realize that you were being sarcastic Charles, but the traditional doctrine of Hell does not line up with scripture, much less the character of God.  

If Hell was true:

1.  Surely, Adam would have been warned of such, but he wasn’t.  Instead, death was threatened.
2.  Surely, a specific word in both Hebrew and Greek would have been used to reference such, but there is not a word in biblical Hebrew or Greek that can correctly be interpreted as Hell.
3.  Surely, it would have been a major emphasis concerning the penalties of breaking the Law of Moses, but it wasn't.  Instead, the penalty for sin spoken of throughout scripture is primarily, almost exclusively, negative results in our earthly existence like death, perishing, disease, destruction, sickness, oppression, slavery, poverty, etc.
4.  Surely, many passages throughout scripture, especially in the Old Testament, would specifically speak of endless torture.  However, only a couple of OT scriptures speak of any form of punishment in the afterlife; and these scriptures do not speak of “endless torture” and can in fact be (should be imo) understood and interpreted as “remedial punishment”.
5.  Surely, the early Creeds of the church would have at least mentioned Hell or “endless punishment”; but they do not.
6.  Surely, the vast majority, if not all, the theological schools of the first five centuries of the church would have taught such; but schools that taught Hell were the minority.  In fact, schools that taught UR were the majority, until the RCC started wielding political power.
7.  Surely, the leaders of the church would have not allowed Gregory of Nyssa, a known Universalist, to preside over the Seventh Ecumenical Council.
8.  Surely, Origen, the Gregories, Basil the Great, and other known Universalists would have been repeatedly denounced as heretics, but they weren’t.  
9.  Surely, St. Jerome would not have had to MISTRANSLATE “Infernum” (Hell) INTO his translation of scripture, the Latin Vulgate, to support his belief in such, but He did 110 times.  
10.  Surely, Jesus would have spoken of Hell, instead of speaking of Gehenna, which the Jews understood as being like Purgatory, a place/event of Remedial Punishment -- not endless torture!

The teaching that ALL will be reconciled falls right into that which Paul warned against "Shall we sin that grace may abound?  God forbid".  This teaching could cause a criminal to say "Well, I've blown it already in this life---what's the point of turning my life around now?  I'll get it right in the next life".

That Jesus needed to die such a horrible, gruesome death to redeem us, does not gel with the unrepentant and horrendous figures that have lived on earth who died atheists finally being reconciled also.   The Bible simply does not teach this.

We are saved by Grace---but the Bible nowhere teaches that one can reject that Grace and finally be reconciled to God in Heaven forever. Verses such as Hebrews 10:29 speak of the awful fate of those who "tread on the Son of God". To negate the teaching of Hell in the Bible, one has to also negate the teaching of Heaven.

Actually, if you read Rom.6 in context of Rom.5, Paul taught UR in Rom. 5, and because of that some believers were irrationally and likely sarcastically in essence saying, "Well if all are saved by the sacrifice of Christ and Grace is so amazing, we might as well sin all the more so that grace may increase!"  To which Paul said basically replies in Rom.6, "Don't be foolish, sin brings bondage and death.  If we've been freed from sin and given life why would we want that bondage and death again!"   And it's significant to note that Paul in response to that foolish reply did NOT threaten endless punishment. 


Actually, Grace is all the more amazing the worse sin is!  Does this mean we should sin more?  Of course not! 

And let's look at what Heb.20.29 actually says.

Heb. 10:26-29,
26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

1) Note that this passage is talking about those who have already "received the knowledge of the truth" (26) and even been "sanctified by the blood of the covenant" (29), who are "his people" (30). 

2) Note that "adversaries" in vs.26, can (and should be imo) interpreted as "contrary things".  Thus, what is being burnt up in judgment are the wicked attitudes and actions, the wood, hay, and stubble of a Believer's life!  This does not imply "Hell" but has more of a connotation of "Purgatory".

So even this passage which speaks of the judgment of Believers should be understood as being of the purpose of effecting positive change in the one being so judged!  And this passage is not even speaking of judgment concerning the vast numbers of people who have no "knowledge of the truth", and who have not been privaledged to be "sanctified by the blood of the covenant", who are not "his people."

"To whom much is given, much is required!"  We believers are the one's who most need to fear the Judgment, because we should know better!

It is Believers that need to be warned of Judgment! Unbelievers need to hear the Good News of God's love and acceptance!  Sadly, much of the church has this backwards teaching that Unbelievers need to be warned of Judgment; and Believers need to hear that God loves and accepts them.  As believers we should know that God loves and accepts us because of Christ, and we should live our lives are being judged by God our father!  And we as believers should embrace His Judgment and let it burn the Hell out of us, even now!

Umm...what about my sins? how can I face death with a clear conscience, unless Christ by the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God (Hebrews 9)?