Sunday, October 26, 2008

"World" Includes Those Who Reject Christ

The limited atonement theory is a lie from faulty logic, not
exegesis. Unfortunately, their understanding of "world"
doesn't seem to take John 12 into consideration:

47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him
not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one
that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall
judge him in the last day.

Here, Christ says the world He came to save, includes those
who reject Him and His words. Christ will not judge these
people, because He came to save them. The word He spoke to
them, however, will judge them, because they rejected the
offer of salvation. Thus, the world Christ came to save, and
to whom He offered salvation, includes those who ultimately
reject Him.

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Christ died for our sins, and God raised Him from the dead.
Rely on this work alone to escape hell and receive eternal
life (Jn. 3:16; 1 Cor. 15:1-3; Eph. 2:8-10; 2 Thess. 1:8-9).

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself
up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ. †2 Corinthians 10:5

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