Conclusion
Sin and Salvation
includes every "particular" human being. Therefore, on balance, Nuth suggests that Julian's underlying position is that it is much more likely that everyone will be saved than that some will be damned.
In her chapter 45 Julian contrasts God's higher judgment with our lower judgment in "our changeable sensuality." Logically, this lower judgment is not confined to individuals. It necessarily applies also to the contingent nature of what the institutional Church teaches. The higher judgment is full of hidden mysteries. Thus, there may be a further salvific act by God at the end of time whereby all will be saved. However, God does not wish Julian to speculate and so she does not do so.10 Overall, what is critical is that, in the light of the parable of a Lord and a Servant, human damnation or annihilation, if true, would be our perverse choice rather than the result of God's wrath or desire to punish.
Conclusion Throughout her Long Text Julian struggles with the experience of sin in her own life and in the wider world, the damage and pain it causes, and the sense that it separates her from God and goes against her deepest longing. Yet, in her sixteen revelations Julian is shown a radically different vision of the meaning of sin and God's reaction to it. This leads to a profound inner struggle which runs as a continuous thread throughout her text. In the end, God does not "see" sin but only the ultimate bliss that will be ours. In God's vision this is the truth of human existence. Thus
Julian, in her revelation of God's perspective, cannot see sin even though she knows its impact on human life and experience. This does not deny that human beings sin. However, it is to say that the centrality of sin in human experience is not reproduced on the level of God's essential relationship with humanity. Julian expresses this in terms of a paradox at the end of chapter 34: "When I saw that God does everything which is done,
I did not see sin, and then I saw that all is well. But when God did show me about sin, then he said: All will be well."
Julian's questioning was clearly never totally eradicated. Doubtless this is one reason why at the start of her final chapter 86 she states clearly that while what she writes "is begun by God's gift and his grace," it remains incomplete or, as she puts it, "it is not yet performed." Yet Julian also concludes her text with the striking affirmation of God's love as the meaning of everything.
And from the time that it was revealed I desired many time to know in what was our Lord's meaning. And fifteen years after and more, I was answered in spiritual understanding, and it was said: