Pantelism is universalistic in that it acknowledges the full scope of God’s reconciliation as complete… not something still yet to be completed, but done. One can, for example, believe in the virgin birth without that meaning they are thereby a Catholic… etc.
Pantelism also rejects the purgatorial hell of universalism, but more importantly rejects outright the postmortem assumption of hell that all infernalists AND universalists agree 100% on… even you appear, unless you can clarify further, to hold to a postmortem hell in your words here…
Perhaps I’m reading you wrong, but your… “hell is not the end of the story for mankind. It is part of the journey” fits right in with the standard universalist and infernalist notion of postmortem torment… again, the only difference between the two positions being the length of stay and or the degree of said torment — BUT BOTH positions assume, as you appear to agree, as to a postmortem hell reality.
Pantelism knows no reincarnation.
I’m open to the idea of possible postmortem redress BUT THAT is purely from my own sense of justice and NOT based on any available text of scripture indicating such… so it’s not a position I’d die for — so atm a little agnostic on that.
Hmmm, you’ve kind of conflated two ideas? Pantelism understands “the lake of fire” to be the AD70 DoJ… thus “the second death” is one and the same thing — John’s second death description however highlights the covenantal death aspect of this, i.e., Israel’s first death was experienced in her Babylonian death, destruction and deportation aka EXILE; now in AD70 the same occurred at the hands of Rome.
The huge difference however between these two deaths was this… Israel was promised resurrection under the first, whereas there was NO RESURRECTION beyond or relative to the second aka “the lake of fire” — hence Pantelism’s strong rejection of this Universalist notion that the lake of fire somehow equates to God’s fiery love etc — no, the lake of fire—the second death marks the terminus of the old covenant world; thus answering to the disciples’ question of Jesus… “what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the world?” aka the end of the Mosaic age.
Well on that matter as a full prêterist you would be in agreement with the pantelist position.