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I lean heavily towards the old Baptist “Already and not yet” …Thoughts?
Q. Whether believers were not actually reconciled to God, actually justified, and adopted, when Christ died?
A. That the reconciliation, justification, and adoption of believers, are infallibly secured by the gracious purpose of God, and merit of Jesus Christ. Yet none can be said to be actually reconciled, justified, or adopted, until they are really implanted into Jesus Christ by faith; and so by virtue of this their union with him, have these fundamental benefits actually conveyed unto them. And this, we conceive, is fully evidenced, because the scripture attributes all these benefits to faith as the instrumental cause of them, Rom. iii. 25. v. 1, ll. Gal. iii. 26. And gives such representation of the state of the elect before faith, as is altogether inconsistent with an actual right in them. Eph. ii. 1, 2, 3, 12. Narrative of the Proceedings of the General Assembly
Barth never though had the "guts" to admit that he affirmed UniversalismAbouth Barth
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Karl Barth - Wikipedia
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