UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

SCRIPTURE TEACHES UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I) INTRODUCTION

A) THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S DEATH & FIVE POINT CALVINISM

B) THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S DEATH IN SCRIPTURE IS SELF-EVIDENT

1) [Jn 3:16]:

2) [Compare Acts 10:43]:

II) CRITICAL PASSAGES

A) ALL = ALL MANKIND, ELECT AND NON ELECT IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES:

1) IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WE HAVE GOD'S PROMISE OF ATONEMENT FOR THE INIQUITY OF ALL MEN:

a) [Isa 53:4-6]:

2) PASSAGES USING "ALL", "THE WORLD", "WHOEVER", ETC., RELATIVE TO FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED CANNOT BE INTERPRETED TO REFER ONLY TO THE ELECT OF ALL RACES INSTEAD OF SIMPLY ALL = ALL MANKIND

a) [Compare Isa 52:15; 53:1-6]:

b) [Compare Jn 1:7-12]:

3) AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE SAME DOCTRINE OF UNLIMITED ATONEMENT IS TAUGHT IN PASSAGES USING THE KEY WORD "ALL"

a) [2 Cor 5:14-15]:

b) [1 Tim 2:5-6]:

c) [1 Tim 4:10]:

d) [Compare Titus 2:11]:

e) [Compare 2 Pet 3:3-9]:

f) [Ro 3:21-24, 26b]:

g) [Compare Jn 14:6]:

h) [Ro 5:6-18]:

i) [Compare 1 Pet 3:18a]:

B) WORLD = ALL MANKIND, ELECT AND NON ELECT IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES

1) [2 Cor 5:18-19]:

2) [1 Jn 2:2]:

a) [Compare John 15:18-19]:

b) [Compare John 17:16]:

c) [Compare 1 John 5:19]:

3) [Jn 3:14-20]:

a) THE WORLD HERE IN THIS PASSAGE MUST MEAN THE WHOLE WORLD - ELECT AND NONELECT

b) WORLD AND WHOEVER IN JOHN 3:16-20 CANNOT BE LIMITED TO JUST THE ELECT

c) THE HYPERBOLE OF WORLD IN SUCH PASSAGES AS ROMANS 1:8 IS NOT PARALLEL TO THE WORLD OF THE ELECT

i) [Ro 1:8]:

C) MANY = ALL MEN, ELECT AND NON ELECT IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES:

1) [Mk 14:24]:

2) [Ro 5:12, 15]:

D) EVERY ONE, WHOSOEVER, WHOEVER = ALL OF MANKIND, ELECT AND NON ELECT IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES:

1) [Heb 2:9]:

2) [Acts 2:21 and Ro 10:13]:

3) [Rev 22:17]:

4) [Jn 3:16-20]:

E) MISCELLANEOUS PASSAGES WHICH PROVE OUT UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

1) [2 Pet 2:1-2]:

2) [Col 2:14]:

3) [Eph 2:15a]:

4) [Gal 3:13-14]:

5) [Compare 2 Peter 2:1 previously examined]:

6) [1 Cor 15:22-23]:

7) [John 8:24]:

8) [Eph 5:6]:

9) [Compare 1 Pet 2:7]:

F) THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES ARE ADVANCED BY THOSE WHO HOLD TO LIMITED ATONEMENT BUT THEY DO NOT SUPPORT THAT VIEW NOR EXCLUDE UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

1) PASSAGES

a) In John 10:15

b) In 15:13

c) In [John 17:2, 6, 9, 20, and 24]

d) In Romans 4:25

e) In Ephesians 1:3-7

f) In 5:25-27

2) VARIOUS SCRIPTURES SAY EXPLICITLY THAT CHRIST DIED FOR THE LOST

a) [Compare Luke 19:10]:

b) [Gal 2:20]:

c) [John 11:51-52]:

d) [Isa 53:8]:

III) THE DOCTRINES OF SCRIPTURE SUPPORT UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

A) INTRODUCTION

B) THE GREAT COMMISSION IS FOR ALL MEN, ELECT AND NON ELECT

1) [Lk 24:47]:

2) [Mt 28:19]:

C) THE DOCTRINE THAT IT IS ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL IS SAVED OR CONDEMNED PERMITS THE DOCTRINE OF UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

1) [Cp Ro 9:22-24]:

D) GOD IS OMNIPOTENT - HIS PURPOSES CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED

1) [Ro 11:36]:

E) SINCE ALL MEN, ELECT AND NON-ELECT, ARE SINNERS

AND SINCE CALVARY PROVIDED FOR ALL SINNERS

THEN CHRIST DIED FOR ALL MEN

1) THERE IS NO DISTINCTION IN SCRIPTURE BETWEEN ELECT AND NON-ELECT SINNERS IN THEIR REGERNERATE STATE

a) [Ro 3:19, 23]:

b) [Eccl 7:20]:

c) [Jer 17:9]:

d) [Ps 51:5]:

e) [Isa 64:6]:

2) SINCE CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE THE LOST, THE UNREGENERATE, I.E., SINNERS:

a) [Lk 5:32]:

b) [Lk 19:10]:

c) [1 Tim 1:15a]:

3) THEN HE DIED TO SAVE ALL MANKIND, FOR ALL MEN ARE SINNERS, ELECT AND NON-ELECT

F) THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSAL PROPITIATION DOES NOT CONTRADICT THE DOCTRINE OF FORGIVENESS OF SIN

COMPARE

1) [1 Jn 2:2]:

WITH

2) [Acts 10:43]:

3) [Ro 3:21-24]:

4) [Cp Phil 3:9]: