Walpole
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You might want to brush up on what limited atonement is and how a general call is still used.
The offer is given to all, but the positive response is limited to the elect whom God makes alive with Christ, by grace through faith.
This is Christianity 101, Walpole.
Sorry, but limited, by definition, is a restriction and thereby precludes all. Here is the progenitor of this heinous religion...
Calvin, Institutes, Book III, 22, 7 ---> "Hence it is that the whole world no longer belongs to its Creator, except in so far as grace rescues from malediction, divine wrath, and eternal death, some, not many, who would otherwise perish, while he leaves the world to the destruction to which it is doomed. Meanwhile, though Christ interpose as a Mediator, yet he claims the right of electing in common with the Father, “I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen” (John 13:18). If it is asked whence he has chosen them, he answers in another passages “Out of the world;” which he excludes from his prayers when he commits his disciples to the Father (John 15:19). We must, indeed hold, when he affirms that he knows whom he has chosen, first, that some individuals of the human race are denoted; and, secondly, that they are not distinguished by the quality of their virtues, but by a heavenly decree."
Once again, this is the antithesis of the Christian religion, which offers salvation to ALL through Jesus Christ. This is why God became man and the invitation to follow Him is made to all men. This in complete contrast to the God of Calvinism, who offers salvation to those arbitrarily chosen to elect, while the rest of the poor saps he created never stood a chance at salvation because Calvin's God made them sheerly to take pleasure in seeing them destroyed.
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