Two issues are still at stake with those desirous of claiming that the ‘debt’ of sin was literally paid for, regardless of whether the debt is eternal or not, that no one thus far, to my knowledge, has addressed. They consist of the issues of God either being a respecter of persons, including double predestination, and the issue of the atonement being less than able to save everyone He paid the sin debt has been said to have been paid for. If we can reject the sin debt that has been paid for our sins by refusing to accept the pardon offered, how is this not placing ‘our wills as the sole determining factor of our salvation, when in fact Scripture states, ‘nor by the will of man?’ If God has ‘literally’ paid for our debt of sin, has anyone heard of double jeopardy? Why would the sinner still be required to literally pay for that which has already been literally paid for? Do Scriptures ever represent God removing a debt as far as the East is from the West, never to remember it again, only to retrieve that debt and re-impose it upon the one failing to accept His pardon?
