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Yes.

It gives His children joyous heart burn....

27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
32 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? Lu 24

...and it's far, far more than just a few lines of a 'formula' for immortality, it's the whole story about Jesus.

It's Sheep food.

 

"The most popular gospel (preached in churches) is a false one." Does the article support this claim? Nope

Jesus fulfilled the Law "for all those He represented." Does the article define who Jesus "represented?" Nope

The article says those saved are called "the elect" and "His sheep" among several other names, but does not tell us what they might be. For example, believers, saints, Bride of Christ, General Assembly, all Israel, siblings of Christ and children or sons of God.

The article claims the Lamb of God, without blemish became sin, very blemished! This is based on a flawed understanding of how the inspired text uses a word usually translated "sin" but sometimes only refers to the consequence or punishment resulting from that sinful behavior. Thus He bore the punishment, and not the guilt for our sin. Otherwise He would not have been sinless, meaning not guilty of sin, rather than without blemish.

Christ laid down His life as a ransom for all, those to be saved and those never to be saved, 2 Peter 2:1.

Bottom line, the OP gospel misses the mark time and again. Both because of ambiguity and in mistaken understanding.

 

Is it reasonable that a ransom should be paid to redeem slaves, but that those slaves were not set free? In Matthew. 20:28 it tells us that the Son of Man came to give his life for many. Is. 53:11 informs us that the righteous servant will justify many and bear their iniquities. Romans 4:25 states that he was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
In Romans 8: it relays that the fact that the predestined, called, justified are the glorified. These people are the elect, the chosen, the ones for whom Christ died and made intercession for.

 

It is not reasonable that Christ did not purchase those heading for swift destruction by paying the ransom for all. God can still choose which then to save based on fulfilling His purpose.

 

1 Corinthians 15:1-5.

 

Not.

Jn 3:3

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, except anyone be born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

Jesus replied, "I tell you for certain that you must be born from above before you can see God's kingdom!"

Jesus replied to Nicodemus, "I can guarantee this truth: No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone may not be born from above, he is not able to see the Kingdom of God”;

Jesus answered and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

 

To ransom means to set free. Christ purchased the Church (the Body of believers, His beloved, the Elect and so forth) with his own blood. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself up for her. He did not die for the Church and everyone else. Christ purchased their pardon. Again, he justifies and intercedes for them only. It is a particular redemption --not a vague, indiscriminate one.

 

So you say.

So you say.

From a prior post of mine (I've nothing new)

"Born ‘again’, or ‘anew', breaks the continuity of how John consistently uses the word anothen in other places, even in that very chapter a mere 24 verses later, AND, it caters to and appeases the synergists in that it allows them wiggle room to claim having a part in it. 'Born from above' strongly denotes the truth that man is totally passive in the heavenly birth and it melds perfectly with all of John’s other ’born from above’ statements:

who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten. Jn 1:13 YLT
if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten. 1 Jn 2:29 YLT
9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten. 1 Jn 3:9 YLT
7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God 1 Jn 4:7 YLT
1 Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him
4 because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith
18 We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him 1 Jn 5 YLT

But Christ addressed Nicodemus’s confusion:

6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.` Jn 3 YLT

The entire dialog, yea the entire chapter, carries the tenor of heavenly things ‘from above’:

2 this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.`
3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;`
7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`
27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven
31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all. Jn 3 YLT

27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; Jn 3"

 

Note from above post: "it caters to and appeases the synergists in that it allows them wiggle room to claim having a part in it.", i.e., born from above vs born again/anew.

Do you claim to have a part in the heavenly birth?

 

Kind of like:

and if the Spirit of Him (Above) who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, (Begotten) He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken (Bring forth, Birth) also your dying bodies, through His Spirit (From above) dwelling in you. (Since being begotten) Rom 8:11 YLT

Or:

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit (From above) of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba -- Father.' Rom 8:15 YLT
And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, (Of Adoption from above) we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption (Sonship) expecting -- the redemption of our body; (Birth from above) Rom 8:23 YLT - adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body; Called hope we do not behold in V's 24,25

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; Rom 8:9 YLT When is the revelation of the sons of God? - ? Luke 20:36
for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God; Rom 8:21 YLT

Kind of like?

concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord; Rom 1:3,4 YLT

 

Mt 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Since when is "all" not "many?" You have a doctrine that is not in the scriptures when you can teach this as, he gave his life a ransom for the elect. He could have said that, but he did not. That is nowhere to be found.

Ro 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Ro 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Both manys in V 15 means ALL.

16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sin does not have more power to kill than our Lord Jesus has power to save. The difference in sinners is shown in V 17. We learn there that one man is responsible for death for all and one man is responsible for life for all. Verse 18 translates the meaning of v 17. One offence by one man and all men were judged sinners and condemned to death. No offence by one man and the free gift, grace, (the Spirit of God, Life) to justify the guilty. The righteousness and justification and life of the second man must be received as a gift, but it is in abundance and v 19 says death reigned over many at one time, which means all, and by the obedience of one man many, meaning all, who receive the gift will have righteousness reigning because they will have his righteousness.

This is the gospel.

Romans 6:23
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We receive death through the first birth and life through the second birth.

Ro 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Ro 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Ga 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Ga 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Ro 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

1Th 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

 

Save your liberal redefinition of words to justify your bogus view.

Folks, note that 2 Peter 2:1 was not addressed. Scripture is clear, Christ bought, ransomed, purchased those never to be saved. Full Stop. The purchase provides the means of their salvation according to God's purpose. Step One of the Gospel Two Step.