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Limited or Unlimited Atonement?
Posted : 5 Feb, 2011 06:56 PM

Scripture is pretty clear on this. However if you get creative with Scripture interpretation you can make it say almost anything!

So let us see who has to LEAST creative with Scripture to discover if Atonement is limited or unlimited.

In plain english : Did the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross cover the sin of :

A) Everyone, however only those born again will enter the kingdom of heaven.

B) Only certain people God chose beforehand. ie : the elect

C) Only people who choose to accept the Gospel of grace through faith.

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Limited or Unlimited Atonement?
Posted : 6 Feb, 2011 10:53 PM

James shared:

# God punishes people in hell, which would be unjust if their sins were atoned for

# Mark 9:43-44 If one were to say, �their sins are atoned for, but that atonement is not applied because of unbelief,� he fails to realize that unbelief is likewise a sin

# Heb 3:12 [�The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for either: 1) All the sins of all men; 2) All the sins of some men; or 3) Some of the sins of all men. In which case it may be said: 1) If the last be true all men have some sins to answer for, and so none are saved; 2) That if the second be true, then Christ, in their stead suffered for all the sins of the elect in the whole world, and this is the truth; 3) But if the first is the case, why are not all men free from the punishment due unto their sins? You answer, Because of unbelief. I ask, Is this unbelief a sin, or is it not? If it be, then Christ suffered the punishment due unto it, or He did not. If He did, why must that hinder them more than their other sins for which He died? If He did not, He did not die for all their sins!� �John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] God bears eternal wrath against people, which by definition means that his wrath against them has not been propitiated [appeased]

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Answer:

Matt 12:32 ~" Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."

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