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Firstly, the salvation of the sinner, is the work of God from start to finish. God, calls/convicts, sustains and preserves, and take the saved to His Glory. You speak of "wicked unrepentant hearts", surely before you and I were saved, this described us? the Holy Spirit "convicts the whole world...

That is good to hear. But you must admit that with many Bible versions available, and newer textual evidence which might be more reliable for the Bible's text, one cannot simply hold that the version that they are using is the only correct one? I was a King James/New King James person for most...

Take for example 1 John 5:7, as found in the King James, or New King James, and then compare with modern versions. How would you know by simply praying, which is right?

Do you go to Church? The Pastor who preaches is expounding the Bible using his own thoughts, which might benefit some

I am speaking generally, and not necessarily about anyone here. Like belief in the "moral theory" which is false, will result in the person thinking they are saved, when in fact they are not!

equally for the entire human race. In that ANY sinner can come to Jesus to be saved, because His blood was shed for ALL without exception, and not only for the "elect". Repentance and belief is a pre-requirement for all sinners to have their sins washed away. Not that there is no hope for the...

"actual" = that Jesus' Death was for a certain number of people whom He "actually" saved on the cross, i.e., the "elect". "potential" is that His Death is "offered" for the sins of any who would repent, believe and trust in His Finished Work!

True, you don't have to be a theologian to be saved. However, the wrong understanding of the Atonement, which is central to the Christian Faith, can indeed determine whether you are saved or not! It is of the utmost important as many teach a false Atonement and therefore a false salvation!

do you believe that the Death of Jesus Christ was EQUAL for the entire human race, and not the reformed position of "sufficient" for the human race, but "efficient" only for the elect? That Jesus died to offer salvation through His blood EQUALLY for every human being? This is what the ECF till...

you cannot be serious? Surely you must believe that we Christians can learn from each other? I know there are some here who think they have all of the truth! But, there are things that the Holy Spirit will reveal to you, and not to me, etc, etc, which is why I believe good commentaries, study...

but not with your understanding of it!

I do fully understand the teachings of the Atonement. I know the cunning used by the "reformed" in getting away from the teachings of the Bible. "sufficient for all, efficient for some". Not so! Jesus' Death is of EQUAL value and scope for the entire human race. ANY sinner, if they were to...

what point is that?

The Bible clearly says that Jesus Christ is completely sinless, in thought, word and deed. He as the God-Man could never have sinned. He alone is impeccable. As His life is an example for all of us, He submitted to water baptism, as we ought to, though His reason is not the same as ours, as it...

My own view is, that the last of "substitution" is the only possible from Scripture. One of the worst is the "ransom", especially that of Origen, which was followed by a few of the early Orthodox Church, who also sadly also adopted Origen's heresy of the "eternal generation of the Son out of the...

Why do you think?

I think that you have missed one of the most important per-conditions to any sinner being saved, which are the first words spoken by Jesus, according to Mark, "repent and believe the Gospel". You have quoted from one of my favorite OT passages, Ezekiel 18, but in a limited was so as to rob it of...

Some more from the ECF on the "extent of the Atonement", which shows that the early Church did not teach any "limitation" on Christ's death. http://evangelicalarminians.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bounds.-The-Scope-of-the-Atonement-in-the-Early-Church-Fathers.pdf

Ransom to Satan Theory This theory was developed by Origen (A.D. 185–254), and it advocated that Satan held people captive as a victor in war. This theory, which was also held by Augustine, advocated that because Satan held people captive, a ransom had to be paid, not to God, but to Satan. In...

Your last remark that the early Church "Almost universally taught Particular Redemption", is not correct. Check out this detailed study on this very subject, where the opposite is true...