This is an ancient battle. According to the universalist position, the center of all things is God, creator of heaven and earth, who was, is, and will be, unchangingly. God is the source of all truth and all stability. Anything that is true, therefore, is true for all times and in all places.
Truth is always a matter of perspective.
The universalist position explicitly assigns translation a stable essence, that of transferring the meaning of a text in one language to another without change, and it places primary authority over that transfer in the past, in the source author and source culture. Authority descends hierarchically from the source author to the translator, and from the translator to the target reader. From that higher plane they can follow our activities back in embodied life, and without the distractions of the body they are also able to read our minds, so that spirit-channelers gain access to telepathic channels of truth that they themselves do not have. Conservative universalism has typically repressed so much of its spiritualist origins that its proponents quickly grow uneasy and defensive, without quite being able to defend their powerful investment in authority and the past. And you would too if you had any respect for tradition.