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Apocatastasis

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  The restoration of all things. A very enticing and optimistic theological concept. Probably more so than any other Christian based concept I've encountered.  In short, apocatastasis is the idea that God loves ALL of His creation and His subjects so much that at some point He is going to restore it back to a state of grace, wholeness, and perfection. He sees His creation as too valuable to destroy and knows there is more glory in restoring it than annihilating it.  Permanent condemnation is unacceptable because of how valuable all consciousness is, being a condensed focal point where the universe can experience itself through and be beared host to by a conscious awareness. Since a mind bears host to existence and reality in general, regardless of the extent of knowledge of a person, within ourselves we inherit the value of the universe in our being because of our isolated awareness of it. On top of that, since we are created in God's image and likeness, we mirror the value of