CALVINISM | ARMINIANISM | UNIVERSALISM | TOTAL RECONCILIATIONISM | |
| Is God Sovereign? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| EXPLAIN | God gets what He wants and what He wants is to save some from hell and not others. This is how God expresses His Sovereignty. | God wants to save all but cannot due to the freewill of Man and the Wiles of Satan. | God wants all to be saved and so he saves all no matter what. | Through His foreknowledge of the freewill choices of Man God elects and works among Man to bring about the total Reconciliation of all people to Himself |
| Result | God is capricious | God is a failure. | God is unjust. | God is Good. |
| Does God give Freewill to Man? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EXPLAIN | Man has no ability at all to choose God in their lives. | Man has so much freewill that God cannot do anything about the choices to reject Him. | Man is free to do good or evil but none of it matters – God loves them and welcomes them in. | Through His foreknowledge of the freewill choices of Man, God works everything to His ultimate will in the end. |
| Result | Men are not free | Man is too free | Man can be irresponsibly free | There is a balance between the Freewill of Man and the Sovereignty of God. |
| Is God Love? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EXPLAIN | His love is limited therefore it is conditioned, not longsuffering and does not always win. | He is love but is ineffective in applying His love to the redemption of the whole world. | “So loving,” that He throws the doors of heaven wide open bringing all into His presence after this life. | He is so loving that He gives all people freewill and then works in and around it to redeem the whole world to Himself. |
| No freewill – no real love | Ineffectual love | Irresponsible love | Successful Love | |
| Is God Just? | Yes/No | Yes/No | No | Yes |
| EXPLAIN | He is just in sending most of His creations to burn in hell forevermore. But He is unjust in creating Man without an ability to choose. | He sends people to hell for their freewill choices. He created people knowing that they would not have the power to overcome Satan and were therefore destined for hell from the beginning. | He is not just as He turns a blind eye to the evil works of human beings and allows all access to Him in the hereafter. | He redeems all people to Himself by and through the Life, DeathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God. and Resurrection of His only human Son. All people reap what they choose to sow with their lives. They will receive exactly due to the good they do. |
| Unjust from the beginning | Unjust from the beginning | Unjust from the beginning | Perfectly Just | |
| Could God save all from afterlife loss? | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| EXPLAIN | But He chooses not to because by sending some to eternal hell He is glorified. | His hands are tied due to man’s free will | And He apparently does. | Freewill is paramount to God and therefore being Good He must allow all people the right to choose. |
| Result | Hard God | Failure God | Irresponsible God | Engaged God |
| Can God be called Good? | Yes/No | Yes/No | No | Yes |
| EXPLAIN | Yes, by those He saves. No, by those He created for eternal hell. | Yes, by those He foreknew would choose Him; no by those He foreknew would reject Him. | He does not meet out punishment or consequences on those who do evil. | By giving all men freewill, having them reap what they sow, but taking care of their sinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace. which He knew they would do, God can be called Good. |
| Result | Not a God I could Adore | Not a God I could Trust | Not a God I would Respect | A God that I could adore, trust, respect, serve and love. |
