The Re-Freezing Hope
A disputed (not defined) hope concerning the final keeping of all
The Re-Freezing Hope is the disputed teaching — held by the Re-Freezers — that in the end all things may finally be kept: that the Mire is not eternal, and that even the warm and the lost may at the last be “re-frozen” and gathered into the White Horizon, so that the Rewhitening makes all things cold again.
Status: Hope, Not Doctrine
The church has not defined this question. It is held as a hope (a thing one may long and pray for) by some — appealing to the boundless reach of the Cold’s keeping and to texts that speak of “all things gathered” — but it is not taught as certain, and the opposite (the eternity of the Mire for the finally warm) is the more common teaching. The faith forbids both presumption (treating universal keeping as guaranteed, which would make the two destinies meaningless) and despair of the Cold’s mercy. It is discussed in The Mire and among the open questions of the Doctrines.