Christ's Death was meted out in proportion for those He definitely died for, their sins ! Paul said, speaking of the Church, how that Christ died for OUR sins !
1 Cor 15:3
3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
To suggest that it could have, saved anymore for whom it was intended is disrespectful and impious to God !
The High Priest of Israel would have been struck down if he would have even attempted to think the Blood of Atonement was for any other people besides Israel back in the Old Testament. He was only to Confess the sins of Israel Lev 16:21
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
The egyptians just could not have just decided to have their sins also atoned for on the day of atonement, as if they had a choice in the matter !
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
The “our” is Paul’s audience (some who may have believed in vain). Yet Christ died for us. Before you start turning this around to make some crazy remark – this verse does not say that everyone is saved or even that Christ atoned for the sins of everyone. Of course, as far as I know you are the only one who keeps bringing that up so you can say “Liar!...False Doctrine!...Lost in Space!..etc).
To suggest that men cannot be saved because all of Jesus’ blood was proportioned out to the elect is to introduce foreign doctrine into Christianity. It reflects not only a lack of understanding of Christ
as the atoning sacrifice, but also of the Old Covenant sacrificial system.
The suggestion that more men could have been saved if God were just a little greater is heretical. God
chooses who to save, he is not insufficient in the means. God is eternally sufficient, and Christ work on the cross is eternally sufficient.
1. You misuse and misinterpret 1 Cor 15:3
2. Lev 16:21 does not support the idea that the high priest of Israel would have been struck down if he thought the blood of atonement was for any other people besides Israel
3. Numbers 15:26 states that the sacrifice system also atoned for the “alien who sojourns among them.”
4. While your first statement introduces foreign doctrine into Christianity, it is the only one that has anything to do with the post.
We will never agree on interpretation because you seem to look to the Bible to support your understanding rather than deriving your understanding from the Bible. What saddens me most is that we actually hold to much the same doctrine (except I do reject the idea that Christ was insufficient in any manner or form to include His work on the Cross).
We do not have the same regard for Scripture. There is no need for you to post anything of me, or ask anything of me, because we will not see eye to eye until you place the Word of God above your understanding. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, but in this type of forum I do not have time for people who disregard or misrepresent Scripture because, to me, it is disregarding and misrepresenting God. If we disagree, let it be a disagreement in our interpretion or reasoning - I can live with that. The Word of God is the standard for this type of argument - NOT your reasoning.
