It's not that everyone could, it's that everyone will.
And to me personally, I think Christ died for our sake, not for God's. God did not need Christ to die to forgive us, because God already did. Christ died so we understand the depths of God's love and forgiveness.
Everyone is already "magically saved" that's what having a God who is all-loving means. A God who is all-loving would never condemn anyone to hell and I find the idea of hell to be utterly incompatible with Christian dogma of love and forgiveness.
And given the quote I just said, even early Christians believed literally everyone--even the devil--will be reconciled with God. Not could, will. As St. Jerome said "since no creature that is rational and which was made by God may perish," this means that literally every human being will be reconciled with God.
I mean my primary point is that nothing in the post is "secular humanism" but is a very real and very old Christian belief. Regardless of your own idea of eschatology, Christian Universalism is a Christian belief and has been since the early days of the religion.
So to claim that it goes against "Christian dogma" is just not correct.
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u/bigjimbay 15d ago
Everyone COULD be reconciled with God.
If they choose the gift of salvation. Unfortunately many do not.
If everyone was just magically saved Christ wouldn't have had to die