Hick's universalism

• Hick viewed the purpose of human life as one of soul-making or spiritual growth- that raised the question of those who died without having fulfilled their purpose and in some cases, having wreaked misery on the earth
• Hick believed that after death there would be future lives, in this or other worlds, to enable to spiritual growth that would result in eternity with God
• He rejected the teaching relating to everlasting suffering in Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats