Featured Pink...the Atonement, 1 Jn2:2

Thanks for the kind words. Although you and I disagree in a couple of areas, and I enjoy bantering with you here, I have always held you in the highest regard and have even used your writings here at the college on several occasions.

 

I was not meaning him at all, my mistake on posting, as really meant our Sda friend Bob!

 

I was not speaking about you, but the other Bob posting here.....

 

I knew you were not answering nor referring to me. No harm done and no offense taken. Who among us has not gotten a bit mixed up with the quote feature?

 

Which is where the article begins to go off the rails. So stopping here to refute the false choice of universalism that arises solely as a result of the author's flawed definition for atonement.

So then close attention to detail on your part would have helped just then.

 

Avoiding every detail in the post and the scriptures presented ... to stop and pontificate appealing to your "quote of you"?

Everyone on this board can see that we are all still on planet earth - in a world of sin... with sinful natures. This is irrefutable. One day it will be the case of living "by sight" and the sinful natures all having been deleted when we are taken to heaven. That day has not come yet.. as it turns out.

More bible - less stories is always the better way to go.

Hint: What work of Christ is said to be the "main point" in Hebrews 8:1???

 

Indeed - that is the flaw in the first point.

And it is seen clearly in Lev 16 "Day of Atonement" where the Bible definition of "Atonement" requires "both" the Work of Christ as the sin offering AND the work of Christ as High Priest to apply the benefits of that "Atoning Sacrifice" 1John 2:2 that was completed at the cross.

Y1 argues that if you happen to notice this Bible detail... it must be Ellen White's fault.

 

A W Pink was a hyper-Calvinist, whose book, the Sovereignty of God, was edited for being unbiblical! So he is really not an authority on such matters

My own comments for 1 John 2:2 are here, Jesus Christ: The Atonement For The Human Race

 

The Bible teaches universal atonement

 

So John Calvin, who is supposed to be the "father" of Calvinism, and one of the main people in the Reformed Movement, was wrong?

This is what he has written:

On Mark 14:24

"Which is shed for many. By the word many he means not a part of the world only, but the whole human race; for he contrasts many with one"

On John 3:16

"That whosoever believeth on him may not perish. It is a remarkable commendation of faith, that it frees us from everlasting destruction. For he intended expressly to state that, though we appear to have been born to death, undoubted deliverance is offered to us by the faith of Christ; and, therefore, that we ought not to fear death, which otherwise hangs over us. And he has employed the universal term whosoever, both to invite all indiscriminately to partake of life, and to cut off every excuse from unbelievers. Such is also the import of the term World, which he formerly used; for though nothing will be found in the world that is worthy of the favor of God, yet he shows himself to be reconciled to the whole world, when he invites all men without exception to the faith of Christ, which is nothing else than an entrance into life"

On Colossians 1:14

"He says that this redemption was procured through the blood of Christ, for by the sacrifice of his death all the sins of the world have been expiated"

 

so, why do you think the Lord "elected" YOU, and not the others? Are you "better"? Give me ONE reason why you believe from the Bible, that you should be "elected", and the rest damned? When God says that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that they turn and live, you think that He is wrong? Your understanding is nothing but "elitism" and no where taught in the Bible!

 

Which is where the article begins to go off the rails. So stopping here to refute the false choice of universalism that arises solely as a result of the author's flawed definition for atonement.

BobRyan said: ↑
Christ paid the debt owed for all sin (as the Atoning Sacrifice for it) for all mankind in all of time - 1 John 2:2.

But that was "Atoning Sacrifice" of Leviticus 16 "Day of Atonement" teaching of the Bible. The "Lord's goat slain" - the "sin offering killed".

However in Lev 16 it takes both the work of Christ as Sin offering AND the work of Christ as "High Priest" which Hebrews 8:1 says is "the main point" - to complete the full Bible definition of "Atonement".

Something Calvinism falls short in comprehending in its own redefinition of the term "Atonement"

The High Priestly work of Christ in Lev 16 and in Hebrews 9 (8 and 9) - includes the interaction between Christ and the sinner - applying the benefits of the atoning sacrifice to the repentant sinner.

Thus.. unlimited atoning sacrifice.
But limited application in the role of Christ as High Priest.

So not universalism.

Game over.

So then close attention to detail on your part would have helped just then.

If you could make that point - I assume you would have by now. Pontifical pronouncement not actually the same as "proof" or "evidence" as it turns out.

 

It teaches "universal atoning sacrifice"

2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. NIV

 

Isaiah 5:4
What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?


Matthew 23
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Or the elect - being lost?

John 1:11 "He came to His OWN and His OWN received Him not"