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Limited Atonement: Provision and Application

January 8th, 2019 | 0 Comments

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Definite Atonement's Indefinite Inferences You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.

Proponents of definite atonement wish to avoid a “hypothetical” atonement by asserting that the elect’s sins were actually atoned for, when Christ died in A. D. 33. This has the unintended logical consequence of eternal justification: the hyper-Calvinist notion that the elect were justified before their birth. To avoid this logical consequence, proponents of particular… Continue Reading

Limited Atonement and Eternal Justification

January 2nd, 2019 | 0 Comments

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Definite Atonement's Indefinite Inferences You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.

Limited Atonement, also known as definite atonement and particular redemption, is regarded by some as a kind of Shibboleth of Reformed or Calvinistic Orthodoxy. Disavow particular redemption, and you are a closet Arminian, an Arminian in Calvinist clothing, or even an inconsistent Universalist. If your TULIP lacks the middle petal, it’s a disfigured flower, they… Continue Reading