No doctrine is more unpopular today than the Biblical teaching concerning the everlasting punishment of unbelievers. Even evangelical churches are reluctant to proclaim that the unconverted will be cast into the lake of fire to be tormented forever. When liberalism came into the churches in the nineteenth century, the doctrine of the Universal Fatherhood of God became very popular. This led, in turn, to the idea that because every man and woman was thought to be a child of God, there- fore God could not possibly cast them, his children, into hell forever. So from this arose the false doctrine of Universalism—the idea that all will eventually be saved.