Featured Supralapasarian "Hyper-Calvinism" Defended

If "he shows himself to be reconciled to the whole world" means every human being that has lived and ever will live has been reconciled to God, then everyone will be living in the new heavens and earth. Such a teaching is similar to that of the universalists of various stripes.

 

Christ Jesus came to save those whom God chose them before the foundation of the world and gave to His Son to be their Surety, He fulfilled the law perfectly on their behalf, their sins were imputed to Him and He paid their sin debt at the cross, and His perfect righteousness was imputed to them. At some point in their lives, all of those whom God chose before the foundation of the world, are brought under the hearing of the gospel of Christ and the Holy Spirit regenerates them, and as a result of the Holy Spirit regenerating them, God grants them the gifts of faith in Christ and repentance of dead works.

 

If John Calvin was including those who end up in Hell as part of "the whole human race", then he was wrong to do so.

 

Christ fulfilled ALL of the conditions for those He came to save. Do God's elect come to the point of having repentance toward God and faith toward Christ" Yes! At some point in their lives, all of those whom God chose before the foundation of the world, are brought under the hearing of the gospel of Christ and the Holy Spirit regenerates them, and as a result of the Holy Spirit regenerating them, God grants them the gifts of faith in Christ and repentance of dead works.

Acts of the Apostles 11:18 Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

Acts of the Apostles 13:48 As many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Acts of the Apostles 16:14 Whose heart the Lord opened.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.

(emphasis mine)

As Jonah said, "Salvation is of the LORD." (Jonah 2:9)

 

The verse does not have the word "all". God saving His elect is to save sinners, those whose sin debt Christ paid at the cross. Not one person for whom Christ died will be in Hell. To teach that anyone for whom Christ died will be in Hell is abominable.

 

The Bible teaches that "Salvation is of the Lord". (Jonah 2:9)

The Bible DOES NOT teach that "Salvation is of the Lord, and man cooperating with God, and letting God save him, after that man proves that he has jumped through enough hoops(the number of hoops varies from denomination to denomination and preacher to preacher), to prove that he is not as bad and awful as another group of human beings that God is not going to save because they, the creation, won't cooperate with their Creator, even though the desire of the Creator is the save them."

One has to wonder what the Conditionalists think makes the difference between the them and others who they say are not saved - were they smarter, or wiser, or "luckier", maybe just through random events they ended up in the right place at the right time compared to others who, instead, were born and live in very unfavorable random circumstances compared to the Conditionalists.

 

For a general answer, see my post #34 earlier in this thread.

As for Judas, he was called "the son of perdition". (John 17:12)

 

Sounds like you are saying that God is a failure:

"By carelessness in Bible study on the part of many -- and evident wresting of the Scriptures on the part of some -- many professing Christians now claim to worship a god who is a failure! Often these people slander the Bible by saying it contains two contradictory lines of teaching which cannot be reconciled. They may claim to believe in a sovereign God, but at the same time think mankind has a "free will" by which he can resist God and hinder His working. Thus, they take the Thomist/Arminian view and promote free-willism. (Nowhere does the Bible teach that man's will is free from his depraved nature!)

This free will system of doctrine sets forth a god who is a wimp. He loves everybody (in spite of clear Bible teaching that God has set His love only on His elect people). The god of this theological system is trying to save everybody, but cannot because they will not let him. Therefore this god is a failure!

Most often, adherents to this Catholic system of theology deny vehemently that they teach that their god is a failure. However, occasionally one of their preachers will say in words or substance, "God has done everything He can do to save you. The rest is up to you". Or perhaps their preaching takes the slant that you must "let God" do this or that in your life. If you do not "let God" He cannot accomplish His purpose in your life, according to the god-is-a-failure theory.

As further proof, we quote one prominent "Baptist" (BBF) preacher of some years ago as representative of this Thomist/Arminian view. He wrote, ". . . hell is a ghastly monument to the failure of the Triune God to save the multitudes who are there . . . sinners go to hell because God Almighty couldn't save them! He did all He could. He failed." [Noel Smith, "Universal Atonement," Defender Magazine, Springfield, MO., U.S.A., December, 1956]."

- excerpt from Is God a Failure? (libcfl.com)

 

And the answer is: God loves the His elect because He loves His elect. (Deuteronomy 7:7-8)

Just as God loved ancient Israel because He loved them, and not that they met some condition(such as being more in number than other peoples), God loves His elect(His chosen) because He loved them and gave them to His Son to be their Surety, not because they met some condition.